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If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

Do not I hate them, O Lord , that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.

And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.

Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?

Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.

I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

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

Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.

I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.

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

I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of 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 toward me.

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

To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto 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.