I belong to you. Deliver me! For I seek your precepts.

I am your servant. Give me insight, so that I can understand your rules.

I am committed to peace, but when I speak, they want to make war.

I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.

So I again considered another futile thing on earth:

The Beloved to Her Lover: I am a meadow flower from Sharon, a lily from the valleys.

The Beloved about Her Lover: I am my lover’s and my lover is mine; he grazes among the lilies.

The Beloved about Her Lover: I am my beloved’s, and he desires me!

I am the Lord, your Holy One, the one who created Israel, your king.”

א (Alef) I am the man who has experienced affliction from the rod of his wrath.

Watch them from morning to evening; I am the object of their mocking songs.

I cared for you in the wilderness, in the dry desert where no water was.

he said to him, “I am the Lord. Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I am telling you.”

and they will know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them out from the land of Egypt, so that I may reside among them. I am the Lord their God.

for I am the Lord who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God, and you are to be holy because I am holy.

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord your God.”

But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Am I able to bring him back? I will go to him, but he cannot return to me!’”

Who acts and carries out decrees? Who summons the successive generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, am present at the very beginning, and at the very end – I am the one.

Don’t be afraid, for I am with you! Don’t be frightened, for I am your God! I strengthen you – yes, I help you – yes, I uphold you with my saving right hand!

May those who persecute me be disgraced. Do not let me be disgraced. May they be dismayed. Do not let me be dismayed. Bring days of disaster on them. Bring on them the destruction they deserve.”