Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

And let the Lord thy God declare to us the way wherein we should walk, and the thing which we should do.

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

For whereas thou hast instructed many, and hast strengthened the hands of the weak one,

I will cry to God most high; the God who has benefited me. Pause.

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

Then was our mouth filled with joy, and our tongue with exultation: then would they say among the Gentiles,

and all the Jews that were with him in Massepha, and all the Chaldeans that were found there.

but Baruch the son of Nerias sets thee against us, that thou mayest deliver us into the hands of the Chaldeans, to kill us, and that we should be carried away captives to Babylon.

Mine enemies have trodden me down all the day from the dawning of the day; for there are many warring against me.

ye shall not hearken to the words of that prophet, or the dreamer of that dream, because the Lord thy God tries you, to know whether ye love your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Hear, therefore, O Israel, and observe to do them, that it may be well with thee, and that ye may be greatly multiplied, as the Lord God of thy fathers said that he would give thee a land flowing with milk and honey: and these are the ordinances, and the judgments, which the Lord commanded the children of Israel in the wilderness, when they had gone forth from the land of Egypt.

Behold, as the eyes of servants are directed to the hands of their masters, and as the eyes of a maidservant to the hands of her mistress; so our eyes are directed to the Lord our God, until he have mercy upon us.

and the Lord has done it; because ye sinned against him, and hearkened not to his voice.

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

My soul longs, and faints for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh have exulted in the living god.

supporting truth, and keeping peace: for on thee, O Lord,

And all the leaders of the king of Babylon went in, and sat in the middle gate, Marganasar, and Samagoth, and Nabusachar, and Nabusaris, Nagargas, Naserrabamath, and the rest of the leaders of the king of Babylon,

For I have called on the name of the Lord: assign ye greatness to our God.

And they that encamp first toward the east shall be the order of the camp of Juda with their host, and the prince of the sons of Juda, Naasson the son of Aminadab.

For behold, thine enemies have made a noise; and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

Therefore shall the poor people bless thee, and cities of injured men shall bless thee.

Our feet stood in thy courts, O Jerusalem.

And king Sedekias sent Joachal son of Selemias and Sophonias the priest son of Maasaeas to Jeremias, saying, Pray now for us to the Lord.

Perhaps the house of Juda will hear all the evils which I purpose to do to them; that they may turn from their evil way; and so I will be merciful to their iniquities and their sins.

Send thee help from the sanctuary, and aid thee out of Sion.

And thou shalt sound with them, and all the congregation shall be gathered to the door of the tabernacle of witness.

I am a strong city, a city in a siege: in vain shall I water it; for it shall be taken by night, and by day the wall shall fall.

For thus saith the Lord; This city shall certainly be delivered into the hands of the host of the king of Babylon, and they shall take it.

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.

Day to day utters speech, and night to night proclaims knowledge.

and thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt certainly be taken, and shalt be given into his hands; and thine eyes shall see his eyes, and thou shalt enter into Babylon.

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

in great waters, a generation of merchants? as when the harvest is gathered in, so are these traders with the nations.

How long will ye judge unrighteously, and accept the persons of sinners? Pause.

Attend to me, and hearken to me: I was grieved in my meditation, and troubled;

My help shall come from the Lord, who made the heaven and the earth.

Ataroth, and Daebon, and Jazer, and Namra, and Esebon, and Eleale, and Sebama, and Nabau, and Baean,

To whom hast thou given counsel? is it not to him who has all wisdom? whom wilt thou follow? is it not one who has the greatest power?

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

On the fourteenth day of the first month at even, thou shalt keep it in its season; thou shalt keep it according to its law, and according to its ordinance.

All thy princes have fled, and thy captives are tightly bound, and the mighty men in thee have fled far away.

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;

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

Deliver my soul, O Lord, from unjust lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

The earth shall be completely laid waste, and the earth shall be utterly spoiled: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken these things.

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

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:

O God, hear my prayer; hearken to the words of my mouth.

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.

So I brought forth Jechonias the son of Jeremin the son of Chabasin, and his brethren, and his sons, and all the family of the Archabin;

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

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.

O ye sons of men, how long will ye be slow of heart? wherefore do ye love vanity, and seek falsehood? Pause.

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

Therefore are my loins filled with feebleness, and pangs have seized me as a travailing woman: I dealt wrongfully that I might not hear; I hasted that I might not see.

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 if any one should take a wife, and should dwell with her, then it shall come to pass if she should not have found favour before him, because he has found some unbecoming thing in her, that he shall write for her a bill of divorcement, and give it into her hands, and he shall send her away out of his house.

For his mercy has been abundant toward us: and the truth of the Lord endures for ever.

Let now the house of Israel say, that he is good: for his mercy endures for ever.

Take a psalm, and produce the timbrel, the pleasant psaltery with the harp.

And the Lord said, As my servant Esaias has walked naked and barefoot three years, there shall be three years for signs and wonders to the Egyptians and Ethiopians;

And the spirit of the Egyptians shall be troubled within them; and I will frustrate their counsel: and they shall enquire of their gods and their images, and them that speak out of the earth, and them that have in them a divining spirit.

And Aaron did so: on one side opposite the candlestick he lighted its lamps, as the Lord appointed Moses.

Because he has inclined his ear to me, therefore will I call upon him while I live.

Attend to the voice of my supplication, my King, and my God: for to thee, O Lord, will I pray.

and it shall be that the city which is nearest to the slain man the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which has not laboured, and which has not borne a yoke.

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.

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.

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.

Now all the rivers of the land shall be inhabited as an inhabited country; their land shall be as when a signal is raised from a mountain; it shall be audible as the sound of a trumpet.

For ye work iniquities in your hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.

I will answer thee, and thy three friends.

before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasse, stir up thy power, and come to deliver us.

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

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

Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the midst of the congregation that rebelled against the Lord in the gathering of Core; for he died for his own sin, and he had no sons. Let not the name of our father be blotted out of the midst of his people, because he has no son: give us an inheritance in the midst of our father's brethren.

GIMEL. He has broken in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he has turned back his right hand from the face of the enemy, and has kindled a flame in Jacob as a fire, and it has devoured all things round about.

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.

Many say concerning my soul, There is no deliverance for him in his God. Pause.

For the ear tries words, and the mouth tastes meat.

Judea became his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.

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.

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.

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.

I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter dark sayings which have been from the beginning.

And they received from Moses all the offerings, which the children of Israel brought for all the works of the sanctuary to do them; and they continued to receive the gifts brought, from those who brought them in the morning.

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.

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.

For let none think that there is a respite for robbers: and upon whom will there not come a snare from him?

Let the name of the Lord be blessed, from this present time and for ever.

Praise the Lord on the harp; platy to him on a psaltery of ten strings.

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.

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.

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.

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

And thou shalt gild its grate with pure gold, and its sides round about, and its horns; and thou shalt make for it a wreathen border of gold round-about.

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,

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