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Strengthen me with raisins, Refresh me with apples; For I am faint with love.

My beloved is mine, and I am his. He browses among the lilies.

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, That you tell him that I am faint with love. Friends

I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine. He browses among the lilies,

I am my beloved's. His desire is toward me.

I am a wall, and my breasts like towers, Then I was in his eyes like one who found peace.

My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts; They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing 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, Yahweh of Hosts.

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.

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

Therefore are my loins 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.

He cried as a lion: 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: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.

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

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

Am I now come up without Yahweh against this land to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

By your servants have you defied the Lord, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars of it, and the choice fir trees of it; and I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field;

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 did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; my eyes fail [with looking] upward: Lord, I am oppressed, be my collateral.

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