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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 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 swarthy, because the sun hath scorched me. My mother’s sons were incensed against me, they made me keeper of the vineyards; [but] mine own vineyard have I not kept.

I AM a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.

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

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

I AM come into my garden, my sister, [my] bride: 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 adjure 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 [his flock] among the lilies.

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

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

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.

Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto 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 mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

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

For he hath said, 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 peoples, and have robbed their treasures, and I have brought down as a valiant man them that sit on thrones:

The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see.