Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

The works of the Lord are great, sought out according to all his will.

in which king Sedekias had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will give this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;

from twenty-five years old and upward until fifty years, every one that goes in to minister, to do all the works in the tabernacle of witness.

take farther counsel, and continually make thou a shelter from grief: they flee in darkness at mid-day; they are amazed; be not thou led captive.

For, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel and Juda, said the Lord: and I will bring them back to the land which I gave to their fathers, and they shall be lords of it.

and thou wilt offer whole-burnt-offerings to the Lord, a whole-burnt-offering or a meat-offering to perform a vow, or a free-will offering, or to offer in your feasts a sacrifice of sweet savour to the Lord, whether of the herd or the flock:

The Lord appeared to him from afar, saying, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore have I drawn thee in compassion.

and he cast for it four golden rings, two on the one side, and two on the other,

by the hand of Eleasan son of Saphan, and Gamarias son of Chelcias, (whom Sedekias king of Juda sent to the king of Babylon to Babylon) saying,

And thou shalt say to them, These are the burnt-offerings, all that ye shall bring to the Lord; two lambs of a year old without blemish daily, for a whole-burnt offering perpetually.

But my feet were almost overthrown; my goings very nearly slipped.

As when his lamp shone over my head; when by his light I walked through darkness.

The Lord shall send out a rod of power for thee out of Sion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

Every one has spoken vanity to his neighbour: their lips are deceitful, they have spoken with a double heart.

And Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm some of you, and set yourselves in array before the Lord against Madian, to inflict vengeance on Madian from the Lord.

and hast reared their young without fear; and wilt thou loosen their pangs?

Gird yourselves with sackcloth in her streets: and lament upon her roofs, and in her streets, and in her ways; howl all of you with weeping.

Cry to me, and I will answer thee, and I will declare to thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

Flee to the mountains as a sparrow?

and thou shalt send them to the king of Idumea, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hands of their messengers that come to meet them at Jerusalem to Sedekias king of Juda.

for the mouth of the sinner and the mouth of the crafty man have been opened against me: they have spoken against me with a crafty tongue.

I give command, and I bring them: giants are coming to fulfil my wrath, rejoicing at the same time and insulting.

When evil-doers drew nigh against me to eat up my flesh, my persecutors and mine enemies, they fainted and fell.

Peradventure they will hear, and turn every one from his evil way: then I will cease from the evils which I purpose to do to them, because of their evil practices.

that he may judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.

Hearken to the voice of my supplication, when I pray to thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy temple.

for there is a voice of men crying out of Oronaim, destruction and great ruin.

Awake, psaltery and harp; I will awake early.

And she shall no longer be a strong place for Ephraim to flee to, and there shall no longer be a kingdom in Damascus, or a remnant of Syrians; for thou art no better than the children of Israel, even than their glory; thus saith the Lord of hosts.

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.

For the Lord most high is terrible; he is a great king over all the earth.

the spirit of the fear of God. He shall not judge according to appearance, nor reprove according to report:

Would we had died in the land of Egypt! or in this wilderness, would we had died! and why does the Lord bring us into this land to fall in war? our wives and our children shall be for a prey: now then it is better to return into Egypt.

Draw ye therefore water with joy out of the wells of salvation.

The city of the great King is well planted on the mountains of Sion, with the joy of the whole earth, on the sides of the north.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow and vexation, and from thy hard servitude wherein thou didst serve them.

Yet two full years, and I will return into this place the vessels of the house of the Lord,

What! is there any reason in vain words? or what will hinder thee from answering?

Ye shall not eat any abominable thing.

Let them say so who have been redeemed by the Lord, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the enemy;

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

In thy righteousness deliver me and rescue me: incline thine ear to me, and save me.

For what matters it to the Lord, if thou wert blameless in thy works? or is it profitable that thou shouldest perfect thy way?

And what will they do in the day of visitation? for affliction shall come to you from afar: and to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory,

at the sound of his rushing, at the sound of his hoofs, and at the rattling of his chariots, at the noise of his wheels: the fathers turned not to their children because of the weakness of their hands,

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.

Therefore will we not fear when the earth is troubled, and the mountains are removed into the depths of the seas.

The Ammanite and Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord, even until the tenth generation he shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord, even for ever:

Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek my soul: let them be turned backward and put to shame, that wish me evil.

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.

O my God, I have trusted in thee: let me not be confounded, neither let mine enemies laugh me to scorn.

He has set a bound to darkness, and he searches out every limit: a stone is darkness, and the shadow of death.

Gird thy loins like a man; and I will ask thee, and do thou answer me.

The multitude of the people which thou hast brought down in thy joy, they shall even rejoice before thee as they that rejoice in harvest, and as they that divide the spoil.

I will be glad and exult in thee: I will sing to thy name, O thou Most High.

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

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.

And the Lord said to Esaias, Go forth to meet Achaz, thou, and thy son Jasub who is left, to the pool of the upper way of the fuller's field.

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.

Send for thee men, and let them spy the land of the Chananites, which I give to the sons of Israel for a possession; one man for a tribe, thou shalt send them away according to their families, every one of them a prince.

And they made the veil of blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen twined, the woven work with cherubs.

Who is this? let him join hands with 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.

God looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any that understood, or sought after God.

These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests whom they consecrated to the priesthood.

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.

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,

Do not set aside my judgment: and dost thou think that I have dealt with thee in any other way, than that thou mightest appear to be righteous?

And the man Moses was very meek beyond all the men that were upon the earth.

His seed shall be mighty in the earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

Prove me, O Lord, and try me; purify as with fire my reins and my heart.

Thou art more beautiful than the sons of men: grace has been shed forth on thy lips: therefore God has blessed thee for ever.

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

And I went in to the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. And the Lord said to me, Call his name, Spoil quickly, plunder speedily.

And he spared his people, and all his sanctified ones are under thy hands; and they are under thee; and he received of his words

For the protection of Pharaoh shall be to you a disgrace, and there shall be a reproach to them that trust in Egypt.

Your eyes have seen all that the Lord our God did in the case of Beel-phegor; for every man that went after Beel-phegor, the Lord your God has utterly destroyed him from among you.

Who shall tell the mighty acts of the Lord? who shall cause all his praises to be heard?

Their meat-offering shall be fine flour mingled with oil; three tenth deals for one calf, and two tenth deals for one ram:

Howl, O Esebon, for Gai has perished; cry, ye daughters of Rabbath, gird yourselves with sack-clothes, and lament; for Melchol shall go into banishment, his priests and his princes together.

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.

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

As smoke vanishes, let them vanish: as wax melts before the fire, so let the sinners perish from before God.

Thou shalt not eat leaven with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread with it, bread of affliction, because ye came forth out of Egypt in haste; that ye may remember the day of your coming forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

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

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou perfected praise, because of thine enemies; that thou mightest put down the enemy and avenger.

reasoning with improper sayings, and with words wherein is no profit?

His dominion is under the whole heaven, and his light is at the extremities of the earth.

who dost robe thyself with light as with a garment; spreading out the heaven as a curtain.

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 his miracles, and his wonders, which he wrought in the midst of Egypt on Pharao king of Egypt, and all his land;

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.

And thou shalt know to-day, that the Lord thy God he shall go before thy face: he is a consuming fire; he shall destroy them, and he shall turn them back before thee, and shall destroy them quickly, as the Lord said to thee.

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;

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.

And the name of that place was called Burning; for a fire was kindled among them from the Lord.

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.