I don't see how "pierce" has this sense of changing the ears so that theyOf course it doesn't. I don't agree with you that the image is necessarily one of being able to hear what was previously inaudible. I would agree that that is possible, but there is another attractive possibility which has nothing to do with being able to hear.
can hear something they had not heard before. ...
... Literally there are two partsPrecisely. This is my alternative interpretation. The psalmist is saying that YHWH has made him a willing lifelong slave, because that, rather than sacrifices, is the response which He desires to the wonderful things he has done.
of the ear that can be pierced, the outer cartilaginous portion and the
eardrum. In the later case, the opposite effect is achieved. In the former
case, the effect on hearing is not obvious. The reference to Exodus 21:6
does not seem to address the issue. In that verse, the ear is "bored"
(ratsa', a different verb) with the object of making someone a lifelong
slave. ...
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