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I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies!

I am small and despised, yet I do not forget thy precepts.

I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war!

If I would count them, they are more than the sand. When I awake, I am still with thee.

Give heed to my cry; for I am brought very low! Deliver me from my persecutors; for they are too strong for me!

And in thy steadfast love cut off my enemies, and destroy all my adversaries, for I am thy servant.

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

is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "I am only joking!"

Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the understanding of a man.

a person who has no one, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, "For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?" This also is vanity and an unhappy business.

I am very dark, but comely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

Do not gaze at me because I am swarthy, because the sun has scorched me. My mother's sons were angry with me, they made me keeper of the vineyards; but, my own vineyard I have not kept!

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

Sustain me with raisins, refresh me with apples; for I am sick with love.

My beloved is mine and I am his, he pastures his flock among the lilies.

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him I am sick with love.

I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine; he pastures his flock among the lilies.

I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me.

Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they have become a burden to me, I am weary of bearing them.

And I said: "Woe is me! For I am lost; for 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, the LORD of hosts!"