Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

Thy shame shall be uncovered, thy reproaches shall be brought to light: I will exact of thee due vengeance, I will no longer deliver thee to men.

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

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.

The end is come on thee,

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

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

who say, Have not the houses been newly built? This is the caldron, and we are the flesh.

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.

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his praises:

Remember thy congregation which thou hast purchased from the beginning; thou didst ransom the rod of thine inheritance; this mount Sion wherein thou hast dwelt.

And thou shalt take thence a few in number, and shalt wrap them in the fold of thy garment.

and thou shalt say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord; thus saith the Lord to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the valleys, and to the forests; Behold, I bring a sword upon you, and your high places shall be utterly destroyed.

My mercy, and my refuge; my helper, and my deliverer; my protector, in whom I have trusted; who subdues my people under me.

Hear me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of Israel, who are borne by me from the womb, and taught by me from infancy, even to old age:

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

And take thou to thyself an iron pan, and thou shalt set it for an iron wall between thee and the city: and thou shalt set thy face against it, and it shall be in a siege, and thou shalt besiege it. This is a sign to the children of Israel.

O my God, I will cry to thee by day, but thou wilt not hear: and by night, and it shall not be accounted for folly to me.

and thou shalt say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, and I will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and I will destroy out of thee the transgressor and unrighteous.

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

thy mouth shall eat, and thy belly shall be filled with this volume that is given to thee. So I ate it; and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey.

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

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

And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, I will open to thee hidden, unseen treasures, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord thy God, that call thee by name, am the God of Israel.

and they went a-whoring in Egypt in their youth: there their breasts fell, there they lost their virginity.

Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers:

For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, that saves thee: I have made Egypt and Ethiopia thy ransom, and given Soene for thee.

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

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 enter not into judgment with thy servant, for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

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.

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

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

A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench; but he shall bring forth judgment to truth.

And the word of the Lord came to Jezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans, by the river of Chobar; and the hand of the Lord was upon me.

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

And he shall pursue them; the way of his feet shall proceed in peace.

Thou hast granted him the desire of his soul, and hast not withheld from him the request of his lips. Pause.

and I will be wise in a blameless way. When wilt thou come to me? I walked in the innocence of my heart, in the midst of my house.

Nay, against me has he turned his hand all the day.

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

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.

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.

thy tongue has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened razor thou hast wrought deceit.

I will pour out before him my supplication: I will declare before him mine affliction.

And they brought their gift before the Lord, six covered waggons, and twelve oxen; a waggon from two princes, and a calf from each: and they brought them before the tabernacle.

The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God.

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

Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice.

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.

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

And Esaias the prophet came to king Ezekias, and said to him, What say these men? and whence came they to thee? and Ezekias said, They are come to me from a land afar off, from Babylon.

Who have devised injustice in their hearts; all the day they prepared war.

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

Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

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

then Moab feared the people exceedingly because they were many; and Moab was grieved before the face of the children of Israel.

Remember, O Lord, how I have walked before thee in truth, with a true heart, and have done that which was pleasing in thy sight. And Ezekias wept bitterly.

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

Lest at any time the enemy seize my soul as a lion, while there is none to ransom, nor to save.

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

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

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

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

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

For I will give water to the thirsty that walk in a dry land: I will put my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessings upon thy children:

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.

And there went forth to him Heliakim the steward, the son of Chelcias, and Somnas the scribe, and Joach the son of Asaph, the recorder.

I will worship toward thy holy temple, and give thanks to thy name, on account of thy mercy and thy truth; for thou hast magnified thy holy name above every thing.

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.

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

and thou shalt place in it the ark of the testimony, and shalt cover the ark with the veil,

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,

They departed from Ramesses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the passover the children of Israel went forth with a high hand before all the Egyptians.

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.

Be strong, ye relaxed hands and palsied knees.

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

Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising: thou understandest my thoughts long before.

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.

Out of Sion comes the excellence of his beauty.

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

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.

he shall purely abstain from wine and strong drink; and he shall drink no vinegar of wine or vinegar of strong drink; and whatever is made of the grape he shall not drink; neither shall he eat fresh grapes or raisins,

And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered the Chananite into his power; and Israel devoted him and his cities, and they called the name of that place Anathema.

We hung our harps on the willows in the midst 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;

To-day is a day of affliction, and reproach, and rebuke, and anger: for the pangs are come upon the travailing woman, but she has not strength to bring forth.

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.

Give thanks to the God of gods; for his mercy endures for ever.

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.

Awake, psaltery and harp; I will awake early.

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

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

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

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

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.

Turn not away thy face from me: in the day when I am afflicted, incline thine ear to me: in the day when I shall call upon thee, speedily hear me.

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

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