Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

The circumference, eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city, from the day that it shall be finished, shall be the name thereof.

And I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, and will plead with you there face to face.

And wilt thou seek great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord: but I will give to thee thy life for a spoil in every place whither thou shalt go.

My troubles and my distresses have driven me out into Babylon, shall she that dwells in Sion say; and my blood shall be upon the Chaldeans dwelling there, shall Jerusalem say.

I will protect this city to save it for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

And they shall say, That desolate land is become like a garden of delight; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are inhabited.

All the dwellers in the islands have mourned over thee, and their kings have been utterly amazed, and their countenance has wept.

Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What has the Lord answered? and, what has the Lord said?

Thus saith the Lord, The bow of Aelam is broken, even the chief of their power.

And he brought me in at the northern gate, and measured it according to these measures;

And flight shall perish from the shepherds, and safety from the rams of the flock.

to turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the Most High,

Thus saith the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day, the moon and the stars for a light by night, and makes a roaring in the sea, so that the waves thereof roar; the Lord Almighty is his name:

Therefore, harlot, hear the word of the Lord:

As I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I judge you, saith the Lord.

Thus saith the Lord, Because thou hast poured forth thy money, therefore thy shame shall be discovered in thy harlotry with thy lovers, and with regard to all the imaginations of thine iniquities, and for the blood of thy children which thou hast given to them.

and the chambers, and the posts, and the porches: and it had windows round about, and it had its porches: the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.

And do ye name no more the burden of the Lord; for his own word shall be a man's burden.

Merchants from the nations have hissed at thee; thou art utterly destroyed, and shalt not be any more for ever.

And now thus has the Lord God of Israel said concerning this city, of which thou sayest, it shall be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by famine, and banishment.

And I will bring upon Aelam the four winds from the four corners of heaven, and I will disperse them toward all these winds; and there shall be no nation to which they shall not comeeven the outcasts of Aelam.

a sword upon her warriors, and they shall be weakened: a sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots:

And the angel of the Lord went forth, and slew out of the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand: and they arose in the morning and found all these bodies dead.

Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will judge thine adversary, and I will execute vengeance for thee; and I will waste her sea, and dry up her fountain.

to condemn a man unjustly in his judgment, the Lord has not given commandment.

For thou has been so exceedingly contemptuous as to repeat thy ways; but thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assur.

Therefore the heart of Moab shall sound as pipes, my heart shall sound as a pipe for the shorn men; forasmuch as what every man has gained has perished from him.

And the nations, as many as shall have been left round about you, shall know that I the Lord have built the ruined cities and planted the waste lands: I the Lord have spoken, and will do it.

A voice of the crying of the shepherds, and a moaning of the sheep and the rams: for the Lord has destroyed their pastures.

if these ordinances cease from before me, saith the Lord, then shall the family of Israel cease to be a nation before me forever.

And the Lord said to me, Son of man, wilt thou not judge Oola and Ooliba? and declare to them their iniquities?

And thou hast made me secure in my salvation: and thy right hand has helped me, and thy correction has upheld me to the end; yea, thy correction itself shall instruct me.

For the sons of Gad according to their kindreds, according to their divisions, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names, according to their polls, all males from twenty years old and upward, every one that goes forth with the host,

For the Lord shall judge his people, and shall be comforted over his servants; for he saw that they were utterly weakened, and failed in the hostile invasion, and were become feeble:

I would place it as a chaplet on my shoulders, and read it.

and Namram, and Baetharan, strong cities, and folds for sheep.

And who has given to women skill in weaving, or knowledge of embroidery?

And they departed from Gesion Gaber, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin; and they departed from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in the wilderness of Pharan; this is Cades.

The Lord carry away thee and thy princes, whom thou shalt set over thee, to a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers know; and thou shalt there serve other gods, wood and stone.

His voice was made audible from heaven to instruct thee, and he shewed thee upon the earth his great fire, and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.

except Chaleb the son of Jephonne, he shall see it; and to him I will give the land on which he went up, and to his sons, because he attended to the things of the Lord.

To Symaer, the family of the Symaerites; and to Opher, the family of the Opherites.

and the tires of fine linen, and the mitre of fine linen, and the drawers of fine linen twined;

And ye shall offer whole-burnt-offerings as sacrifices to the Lord, one calf, one ram, seven lambs of a year old without spot.

And all the congregation brought him forth out of the camp; and all the congregation stoned him with stones outside the camp, as the Lord commanded Moses.

And of these thou shalt beat some small, and thou shalt put it before the testimonies in the tabernacle of testimony, whence I will make myself known to thee: it shall be to you a most holy incense.

On the fifth day the prince of the children of Symeon, Salamiel the son of Surisadai.

And when Balac heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him, to a city of Moab, which is on the borders of Arnon, which is on the extreme part of the borders.

And in the resting he said, Turn again, O Lord, the thousands and tens of thousands in Israel.

From Aroer, which is by the brink of the brook of Arnon, and the city which is in the valley, and as far as the mount of Galaad; there was not a city which escaped us: the Lord our God delivered all of them into our hands.

And the half, even the portion of them that went out to war, from the number of the sheep, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand and five hundred.

And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, and who came and murmured against it to the assembly so as to bring out evil words concerning the land,

And the numbering of them according to their families was two thousand, seven hundred and fifty.

Guide me in the path of thy commandments; for I have delighted in it.

Howbeit do thou learn, Job: no longer make answer as the foolish:

And they remembered that God was their helper, and the most high God was their redeemer.

I saw the ungodly very highly exalting himself, and lifting himself up like the cedars of Libanus.

The oversight of the charge of the sons of Merari included the chapiters of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and all their furniture, and their works,

There shall be their meat-offerings and their drink-offerings for the calf and the ram and the lambs according to their number, according to their ordinance.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And who is he that numbers the clouds in wisdom, and has bowed the heaven down to the earth?

Ye shall not make any for yourselves according to this composition; it shall be to you a holy thing for the Lord.

and the pillars of the court round about, and their bases, and their pins, and their cords.

And to Salpaad the son of Opher there were no sons, but daughters: and these were the names of the daughters of Salpaad; Mala, and Nua, and Egla, and Melcha, and Thersa.

Only we did not draw near to the children of Amman, even all the parts bordering on the brook Jaboc, and the cities in the mountain country, as the Lord our God charged us.

that we add not to our sins: for iniquity will be reckoned against us, if we speak many words before the Lord.

Yet they loved him only with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

And they departed from Cades, and encamped in mount Or near the land of Edom.

Because he loved thy fathers, he also chose you their seed after them, and he brought thee himself with his great strength out of Egypt,

And the Lord was angry with me for your sake, saying, Neither shalt thou by any means enter therein.

and their girdles of fine linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet spun, the work of an embroiderer, according as the Lord commanded Moses.

And the sons of Ruben built Esebon, and Eleale, and Kariatham,

Thou has made room for my goings under me, and by footsteps did not fail.

and the Lord said, Where are their gods on whom they trusted?

And if I did not read it and return it, having taken nothing from the debtor:

And the tribute to the Lord from the sheep was six hundred and seventy-five.

This is the numbering of the family of Caath, every one that ministers in the tabernacle of witness, as Moses and Aaron numbered them by the word of the Lord, by the hand of Moses.

the men that spoke evil reports against the land, even died of the plague before the Lord.

And Balac said to Balaam, Did I not send to thee to call thee? why hast thou not come to me? shall I not indeed be able to honour thee?

the numbering of them of the tribe of Gad, was forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.

An thou shalt be there for a wonder, and a parable, and a tale, among all the nations, to which the Lord thy God shall carry thee away.

Incline mine heart to thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.

He brought his gift, one silver charger, its weight one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour kneaded with oil for a meat-offering.

And Babylon shall be a desolation, and shall not be inhabited.

They shall all have their heads shaved in every place, and every beard shall be shaved; and all hands shall beat the breasts, and on all loins shall be sackcloth.

For they have committed adultery, and blood was in their hands, they committed adultery with their devices, and they passed through the fire to them their children which they bore to me.

Behold, I will gather them out of every land, where I have scattered them in my anger, and my wrath, and great fury; and I will bring them back into this place, and will cause them to dwell safely:

But wherefore, say ye, has the Lord our God spoken?

Who has thus spoken, and it has come to pass? the Lord has not commanded it.