Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron.

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his mercy endures for ever.

then the Lord spoke to Esaias the son of Amos, saying, Go and take the sackcloth off thy loins, and loose thy sandals from off thy feet, and do thus, going naked and barefoot.

We will give thanks to thee, O God, we will give thanks, and call upon thy name: I will declare all thy wonderful works.

Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless his holy name.

Hast thou been often spoken to in distress? but who shall endure the force of thy words?

Praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye peoples.

Therefore he has wisely brought evils upon them, and his word shall not be frustrated; and he shall rise up against the houses of wicked men, and against their vain hope,

A fourth part thou shalt burn in the fire in the midst of the city, at the fulfillment of the days of the siege: and thou shalt take a fourth part, and burn it up in the midst of it: and a fourth part thou shalt cut with a sword round about it: and a fourth part thou shalt scatter to the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.

Son of man, because Sor has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is crushed: the nations are destroyed: she is turned to me: she that was full is made desolate:

Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God; for the people have fallen through thine iniquities.

O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath, neither chasten me in thine anger.

And I will send forth against Babylon spoilers, and they shall spoil her, and shall ravage her land. Woe to Babylon round about her in the day of her affliction.

Let the day perish in which I was born, and that night in which they said, Behold a man-child!

For a nation has come up against her from the north, he shall utterly ravage her land, and there shall be none to dwell in it, neither man nor beast.

For thy weapons are fixed in me, and thou hast pressed thy hand heavily upon me.

Serve the Lord with gladness; come before his presence with exultation.

The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers gathered themselves together, against the Lord, and against his Christ;

And it shall be, that the remnant left in Sion, and the remnant left in Jerusalem, even all that are appointed to life in Jerusalem, shall be called holy.

Is it good before thee if I be unrighteous? for thou hast disowned the work of thy hands, and attended to the counsel of the ungodly.

Take up arms and spears, and draw nigh to battle;

Thou hast sheltered me from the conspiracy of them that do wickedly; from the multitude of them that work iniquity;

And thou shalt give her to Eleazar the priest; and they shall bring her out of the camp into a clean place, and shall kill her before his face.

Thus have I appeared before thee in the sanctuary, that I might see thy power and thy glory.

The Lord is great in Sion, and is high over all the people.

And many nations shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will tell us his way, and we will walk in it: for out of Sion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord out of Jerusalem.

the captain of fifty also, and the honourable counsellor, and the wise artificer, and the intelligent hearer.

And the Lord said to me, What seest thou, Jeremias? and I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten, for their badness.

And I will gather in the remnant of my people in every land, whither I have driven them out, and will set them in their pasture; and they shall increase and be multiplied.

Whether male or female, send them forth out of the camp; and they shall not defile their camps in which I dwell among them.

The Lord is my firm support, and my refuge, and my deliverer; my God is my helper, I will hope in him; he is my defender, and the horn of my salvation, and my helper.

In the thirteenth year of Josias, son of Amos, king of Juda, even until this day for three and twenty years, I have both spoken to you, rising early and speaking,

Let the archer bend his bow, and him that has armour put it on: and spare ye not her young men, but destroy ye all her host.

But his pleasure is in the law of the Lord; and in his law will he meditate day and night.

Every one that passed the survey from twenty years old and upwards to the number of six hundred thousand, and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

The Lord thy God who goes before thee, he shall destroy these nations before thee, and thou shalt inherit them: and it shall be Joshua that goes before thy face, as the Lord has spoken.

And Jeremias said to them, Thus shall ye say to Sedekias king of Juda,

For he is my God, and my saviour; my helper, I shall not be moved very much.

Alas! destruction to the unrighteous, and rejection to them that do iniquity.

For wherefore have we been silent before thee like brutes?

The Lord has made known his salvation, he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations.

My hands formed a musical instrument, and my fingers tuned a psaltery.

Praise him on account of his mighty acts: praise him according to his abundant greatness.

And they shall keep thy charges, and the charges of the tabernacle; only they shall not approach the holy vessels and the altar, so both they and you shall not die.

and thou shalt say to them, Hear ye the word of the Lord, ye kings of Juda, and men of Juda, and the dwellers in Jerusalem, and they that enter in by these gates; thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, so that the ears of every one that hears it shall tingle.

And Israel consecrated themselves to Beel-phegor; and the Lord was very angry with Israel.

And this is the due of the priests in the things coming from the people from those who offer sacrifices, whether it be a calf or a sheep; and thou shalt give the shoulder to the priest, and the cheeks, and the great intestine:

And Paschor brought Jeremias out of the dungeon: and Jeremias said to him, The Lord has not called thy name Paschor, but Exile.

Cloud, and darkness are round about him; righteousness and judgment are the establishment of his throne.

Let my judgment come forth from thy presence; let mine eyes behold righteousness.

For they shall soon be withered as the grass, and shall soon fall away as the green herbs.

The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel does not know me, and the people has not regarded me.

thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and justice, and rescue the spoiled out of the hand of him that wrongs him: and oppress not the stranger, and orphan, and widow, and sin not, and shed no innocent blood in this place.

Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.

neither shall ye contract marriages with them: thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, and thou shalt not take his daughter to thy son.

For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that have born them, and concerning their fathers that have begotten them in this land;

Ye shall not burn a fire in any of your dwellings on the sabbath-day; I am the Lord.

From the ends of the earth have I cried to thee, when my heart was in trouble: thou liftedst me up on a rock thou didst guide me:

For he has dealt craftily before him, to discover his iniquity and hate it.

And they will become wives in one of the tribes of the children of Israel; so their inheritance shall be taken away from the possession of our fathers, and shall be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which the women shall marry, and shall be taken away from the portion of our inheritance.

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.

Let Israel rejoice in him that made him; and let the children of Sion exult in their king.

And write the name of Aaron on the rod of Levi; for it is one rod for each: they shall give them according to the tribe of the house of their families.

I said to the Lord, Thou art my Lord; for thou has no need of my goodness.

And her nobles have sent their little ones to the water: they came to the wells, and found no water: and brought back their vessels empty.

Who is this? let him join hands with me.

For he has strengthened the bars of thy gates; he has blessed thy children within thee.

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

For if he would enter into judgment with him, God would not hearken to him, so that he should answer to one of his charges of a thousand.

Take hold of shield and buckler, and arise for my help.

And the cities shall be for them to dwell in, and their enclosures shall be for their cattle and all their beasts.

For who is he that hides counsel from thee? or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from thee? and who will tell me what I knew not, great and wonderful things which I understood not?

Sing to the Lord, bless his name: proclaim his salvation from day to day.

And I will punish them with four kinds of death, saith the Lord, the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the wild beasts of the earth, and the birds of the sky to devour and destroy.

So I went down to the potter's house, and behold, he was making a vessel on the stones.

Ye have compassed this mount long enough; turn therefore toward the north.

One is childless in want and famine, such as they that fled but lately the distress and misery of drought.

For the customs of the nations are vain; it is a tree cut out of the forest, the work of the carpenter, or a molten image.

and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Cursed is the man, who shall not hearken to the words of this covenant,

And ye shall destroy their altars, and break in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their groves, and ye shall burn with fire the graven images of their gods, and ye shall abolish their name out of that place.

While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.

And thou shalt come to the priest who shall be in those days, and thou shalt say to him, I testify this day to the Lord my God, that I am come into the land which the Lord sware to our fathers to give to us.

Thy throne is prepared of old: thou art from everlasting.

Be thou exalted, thou that judgest the earth: render a reward to the proud.

Thou hast shaken the earth, and troubled it; heal its breaches, for it has been shaken.

And now, ye dwellers in Jerusalem, and every man of Juda, judge between me and my vineyard.

Every day will I bless thee, and I will praise thy name for ever and ever.

because they chose death rather than life, even to all the remnant that are left of that family, in every place whither I shall drive them out.

They rose up against Moses and Aaron, and said, Let it be enough for you that all the congregation are holy, and the Lord is among them; and why do ye set up yourselves against the congregation of the Lord?

And he was also very angry with his three friends, because they were not able to return answers to Job, yet set him down for an ungodly man.

They have led away, the ass of the fatherless, and taken the widow's ox for a pledge.

My soul shall boast herself in the Lord: let the meek hear, and rejoice.

Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.

The Lord builds up Jerusalem; and he will gather together the dispersed of Israel.

And they have bent their tongue like a bow: falsehood and not faithfulness has prevailed upon the earth; for they have gone on from evil to evil, and have not known me, saith the Lord.

But thou, Lord, knowest me; thou hast proved my heart before thee; purify them for the day of their slaughter.

He shall say to the Lord, Thou art my helper and my refuge: my God; I will hope in him.

The shepherds and their flocks shall come to her; and they shall pitch their tents against her round about, and shall feed their flocks each with his hand.