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

Sustain me with the raisins, refresh me with the apples, for I am lovesick.

I adjure you, O maidens of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, what will you tell him? Tell him that I am lovesick!

Your new moons and your appointed festivals my soul hates; they have become to me like a burden, I am not able to bear them.

And now let me tell you what I myself am about to do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall become a devastation. I will break down its wall, and it shall become a trampling.

And I said, "Woe to me! For I am destroyed! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I am living among a people of unclean lips, for my eyes have seen the king, Yahweh of hosts!"

Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "I am here! Send me!"

Look! I am stirring the Medes up against them, who do not value silver and do not delight in gold.

Surely the princes of Zoan are foolish; the wise of the counselors of Pharaoh give senseless counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, "I myself am a son of sages, a descendant of ancient kings"?

Therefore my loins are filled with anguish; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman giving birth. I am too bent to hear, I am too dismayed to see.

Then the watchman called, "Lord, I am standing on the watchtower continually by day, and I am standing at my post throughout the night.

I, Yahweh, am her keeper; I water it again and again. Lest one afflict harm on it, I guard it night and day;

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says this: "Look! I am laying a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a founded foundation: ‘The one who trusts will not panic.'

And the vision of all this has become for you like the words of a sealed document. When they give it to one who knows the document, saying, "Read this now!" He says, "I am not able, for it is sealed."

therefore look, I am again doing something spectacular and a spectacle with this spectacular people. And the wisdom of its wise men shall perish, and the discernment of its discerning ones shall keep itself hidden."

And no inhabitant will say, "I am sick"; the people who live in it, their iniquity will be taken away.

Look! I am about to put a spirit in him so that he shall hear a rumor and he shall return to his land, and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his land."'"

"Go and say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your ancestor: "I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I am going to add fifteen years to your days.

I was the one who said, "I must go in the quiet of my days; I am summoned through the gates of Sheol for the rest of my years."

"And to whom you will compare me, and am I equal?" says the holy one.