Study Desk

"Refresh me with raisin cakes, Sustain me with apples, Because I am lovesick.

"My beloved is mine, and I am his; He pastures his flock among the lilies.

"Swear to me, you daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, As to what you will tell him: For I am lovesick."

"I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine, He who pastures his flock among the lilies."

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

"I hate your new moon festivals and your appointed feasts, They have become a burden to Me; I am tired of bearing them.

"So now let Me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard: I will remove its hedge and it will be consumed; I will break down its wall and it will become trampled ground.

Then I said, "Woe to me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I live among a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of armies."

Then 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!"

Behold, I am going to stir up the Medes against them, Who will not value silver or take pleasure in gold.

The officials of Zoan are mere fools; The advice of Pharaoh's wisest advisers has become stupid. How can you say to Pharaoh, "I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings"?

For this reason my loins are full of anguish; Pains have seized me like the pains of a woman in labor. I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified I cannot see.

Then the lookout called, "Lord, I stand continually by day on the watchtower, And I am stationed every night at my guard post.

From the ends of the earth we hear songs: "Glory to the Righteous One," But I say, "I am finished! I am finished! Woe to me! The treacherous deal treacherously, And the treacherous deal very treacherously."

"I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it every moment. So that no one will damage it, I guard it night and day.

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: "Behold, I am laying a stone in Zion, a tested stone, A precious cornerstone for the foundation, firmly placed. The one who believes in it will not be disturbed.

And no resident will say, "I am sick"; The people who live there will be forgiven their wrongdoing.

"Behold, I am going to put a spirit in him so that he will hear news and return to his own land. And I will make him fall by the sword in his own land."'"

I said, "In the middle of my life I am to enter the gates of Sheol; I have been deprived of the rest of my years."

"Like a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter; I moan like a dove; My eyes look wistfully to the heights; Lord, I am oppressed, be my security.