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Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they are a trouble to me; I am weary of bearing them.

Then I said, 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, Yahweh 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 I am; send me.

The princes of Zoan are completely foolish; the counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become brutish: how do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

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

And he cried as a lion: O Lord, I stand continually on the watch-tower in the day-time, and am set in my ward whole nights;

I Yahweh am its keeper; I will water it every moment: or else any will hurt it, I will keep it night and day.

and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you; and he says, I am not learned.

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

I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

Like a swallow [or] a crane, so I chattered; I moaned as a dove; my eyes fail [with looking] upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be my surety.

Who has wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.

Don't be afraid, for I am with you; don't be dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you; yes, I will help you; yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

[I am the] first [that says] to Zion, Look, look at them; and I will give to Jerusalem one that brings good tidings.

I am Yahweh, that is my name; and my glory I will not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your stead.

Don't be afraid; for I am with you: I will bring your seed from the east, and gather you from the west;

You are my witnesses, says Yahweh, and my slave whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.

I, even I, am Yahweh; and besides me there is no savior.

I have declared, and I have saved, and I have shown; and there was no strange [god] among you: therefore you are my witnesses, says Yahweh, and I am God.