Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

GIMEL. Nay, serpents have drawn out the breasts, they give suck to their young, the daughters of my people are incurably cruel, as an ostrich in a desert.

And he said to me, Son of Man, I send thee forth to the house of Israel, them that provoke me; who have provoked me, they and their fathers to this day.

and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord; A great eagle with large wings, spreading them out very far, with many claws, which has the design of entering into Libanusand he took the choice branches of the cedar:

to proclaim thy mercy in the morning, and thy truth by night,

By reason of the terrible sound the nations were dismayed for fear of thee, and the heathen were scattered.

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

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.

For thou, O God, art my strength: wherefore hast thou cast me off? and why do I go sad of countenance, while the enemy oppresses me?

how he sware to the Lord, and vowed to the God of Jacob, saying,

It is as ointment on the head, that ran down to the beard, even the beard of Aaron; that ran down to the fringe of his clothing.

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.

And they shall no more trust in men, but they shall incline their ears to hear.

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.

because of their wickedness, which they have wrought to provoke me, by going to burn incense to other gods, whom ye knew not.

BETH. She weeps sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; and there is none of all her lovers to comfort her: all that were her friends have dealt deceitfully with her, they are become her enemies.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

And your southern side shall be from the wilderness of Sin to the border of Edom, and your border southward shall extend on the side of the salt sea eastward.

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.

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

I shall have sinned if I have not been humble, but have exulted my soul: according to the relation of a weaned child to his mother, so wilt thou recompense my soul.

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.

O Lord, hearken to my voice; let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication.

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

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,

Raise me, and I will speak; then ye shall not laugh me to scorn.

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.

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrows in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

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

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.

My soul has thirsted for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

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.

Before the mountains existed, and before the earth and the world were formed, even from age to age, Thou art.

And I will compass thee about like David, and will raise a mound about thee, and set up towers round thee.

And their slain shall be cast forth, and their corpses; and their ill savour shall come up, and the mountains shall be made wet with their blood.

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.

even an Egyptian, a man, and not God; the flesh of horses, and there is no help in them: but the Lord shall bring his hand upon them, and the helpers shall fail, and all shall perish together.

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.

And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke in Araboth of Moab at the Jordan by Jericho, saying,

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

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.

from twenty years old and upwards, every one that goes forth in the forces of Israel, take account of them with their strength; thou and Aaron take account of them.

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.

Thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.

May the Lord preserve him and keep him alive, and bless him on the earth, and not deliver him into the hands of his enemy.

The crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, shall be beaten down with the hands and with the feet.

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

Blessed are they that search out his testimonies: they will diligently seek him with the whole heart.

Hast thou not taken account even of him, and caused him to enter into judgment before thee?

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

Of a stranger thou shalt ask again whatsoever he has of thine, but to thy brother thou shalt remit his debt to thee.

It is vain for you to rise early: ye rise up after resting, ye that eat the bread of grief; while he gives sleep to his beloved.

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;

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

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

For thou hast said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy truth shall be established in the heavens.

Many a time have they warred against me from my youth: and yet they prevailed not against me.

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

Bring to the Lord glory, due to his name; worship the lord in his holy court.

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

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

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

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;

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

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:

I will not be silent because of him: though because of his power one shall pity his antagonist.

Let my prayer come in before thee; incline thine ear to my supplication, O Lord.

and they should go and serve other gods, and worship them, the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which he commanded thee not to do,

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

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

And he took up his parable and said, Balaam son of Beor says, the man who sees truly says,

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.

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

And they shall scourge him with forty stripes in number, they shall not inflict more; for if thou shouldest scourge him with more stripes beyond these stripes, thy brother will be disgraced before thee.

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,

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 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.

Lift up your hands by night in the sanctuaries, and bless the Lord.

Hear my prayer; to thee all flesh shall come.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

He has founded it upon the seas, and prepared it upon the rivers.

I am stuck fast in deep mire, and there is no standing: I am come in to the depths of the sea, and a storm has overwhelmed me.

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

And Balaam said to Balac, Stand by thy sacrifice, and I will go and see if God will appear to me and meet me, and the word which he shall shew me, I will report to thee. And Balac stood by his sacrifice.

Thus shalt thou do to his ass, and thus shalt thou do to his garment, and thus shalt thou do to every thing that thy brother has lost; whatsoever shall have been lost by him, and thou shalt have found, thou shalt not have power to overlook.

The Lord loves the gates of Sion, more than all the tabernacles of Jacob.

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

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

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