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I am thine, save me; for I have sought out thine ordinances.

Penetrate my flesh with thy fear; for I am afraid of thy judgments.

I am thy servant; instruct me, and I shall know thy testimonies.

I am young and despised: yet I have not forgotten thine ordinances.

I will number them, and they shall be multiplied beyond the sand; I awake, and am still with thee.

Sinners shall fall by their own net: I am alone until I shall escape.

Attend to my supplication, for I am brought very low; deliver me from them that persecute me; for they are stronger than I.

And in thy mercy thou wilt destroy mine enemies, and wilt destroy all those that afflict my soul; for I am thy servant.

I walk in ways of righteousness, and am conversant with the paths of judgement;

For I am the most simple of all men, and there is not in me the wisdom of men.

I spoke in my heart, saying, Behold, I am increased, and have acquired wisdom beyond all who were before me in Jerusalem: also I applied my heart to know wisdom and knowledge.

I am black, but beautiful, ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

Look not upon me, because I am dark, because the sun has looked unfavourably upon me: my mother’s sons strove with me; they made me keeper in the vineyards; I have not kept my own vineyard.

I am a flower of the plain, a lily of the valleys.

Strengthen me with perfumes, stay me with apples: for I am wounded with love.

My kinsman is mine, and I am his: he feeds his flock among the lilies.

Let my kinsman come down into his garden, and eat the fruit of his choice berries. I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spices; I have eaten my bread with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; yea, brethren, drink abundantly.

I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and the virtues of the field: if ye should find my kinsman, what are ye to say to him? That I am wounded with love.

I am my kinsman’s, and my kinsman is mine, who feeds among the lilies.

I am my kinsman’s, and his desire is toward me.