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

Feed me with raisin cakes, refresh me with apples, for I am sick with love.

My Beloved is mine, and I am His. He feeds among the lilies.

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my Beloved, what do you tell Him? That I am sick with love.

I am my Beloved's, and my Beloved is mine. He feeds among the lilies.

I am my Beloved's, and His desire is toward me.

What good to Me are your many sacrifices, says Jehovah? I am sated with burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fattened cattle, and the blood of bulls; nor do I delight in the blood of lambs and he goats.

My soul hates your new moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to Me. I am weary of bearing them .

Then I said, Woe is me! For I am cut off; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live amongst a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of Hosts.

For he says, I have worked by the strength of my hand and by my wisdom; for I am wise. And I take away the borders of peoples, and have robbed their treasures. And like a mighty one, I put down ones living in it .

Surely the rulers of Zoan are fools; the advice of Pharaoh's wise counselor has become stupid. How can you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of wise ones, the son of kings of old?

Because of this my loins are filled with pain; pangs have taken hold on me like the pangs of a travailing woman. I am bowed from hearing; I am troubled from seeing.

And he cried, A lion! My lord, I always stand on my watchtower by day; and I am stationed at my post all the nights.

And the whole vision to you is like the words of a sealed book which they give to one knowing books, saying, Please read this. Then he says, I am not able, for it is sealed.

So, behold, I am adding to do wonderfully with this people, the wonder, even a wonder. For the wisdom of his wise ones shall perish, and the wit of his witty ones shall be hidden.

And an inhabitant shall not say, I am sick; the people who live in it; iniquity is taken away.

Behold, I am giving into him a spirit, and he shall hear a rumor, and return to his own land. And I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

I said in the cessation of my days, I shall go to the gates of Sheol; I am called to account for the rest of my years.

To whom then will you compare Me, or am I equaled, says the Holy One?

Who has planned and done it , calling forth the generations from the beginning? I Jehovah am the first and the last; I am He.