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My beloved [is] mine, and I [am] his: he feedeth among the lilies.

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I [am] sick with love.

I [am] my beloved's, and my beloved [is] mine: he feedeth among the lilies.

I [am] my beloved's, and his desire [is] towards me.

I [am] a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favor.

To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices to me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.

Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble to me; I am weary to bear [them].

Then said I, Woe [is] me! for I am undone; because I [am] a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here [am] I; send me.

For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done [it], and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant [man]:

Surely the princes of Zoan [are] fools, the counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye to Pharaoh, I [am] the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

And he cried, a lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watch-tower in the day time, and I am set in my ward whole nights.

And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.

And the inhabitants shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein [shall be] forgiven [their] iniquity.

And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

Like a crane [or] a swallow, so I chattered: I mourned as a dove: my eyes fail [with looking] upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

Who hath wrought and done [it], calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I [am] he.

Fear thou not; for I [am] with thee: be not dismayed; for I [am] thy God: I will strengthen thee; yes, I will help thee; yes, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

I [am] the LORD: that [is] my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.