Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

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

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

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

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

And he stretched forth the likeness of a hand, and took me by the crown of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between the earth and sky, and brought me to Jerusalem in a vision of God, to the porch of the gate that looks to the north, where was the pillar of the Purchaser.

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

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.

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

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

The end is come on thee,

And the glory of the God of Israel, that was upon them, went up from the cherubs to the porch of the house. And he called the man that was clothed with the long robe, who had the girdle on his loins;

And now I will comfort thee, O Sion: and I have comforted all her desert places; and I will make her desert places as a garden, and her western places as the garden of the Lord; they shall find in her gladness and exultation, thanksgiving and the voice of praise.

They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of thy holy ones for the wild beasts of the earth.

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

And I have seen foolish ones taking root: but suddenly their habitation was devoured.

And the people reviled Moses, saying, Would we had died in the destruction of our brethren before the Lord!

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

Who would then know that I might find him, and come to an end of the matter?

For thus saith the Lord, Ye have been sold for nought; and ye shall not be ransomed with silver.

and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord to Jerusalem; Thy root and thy birth are of the land of Chanaan: thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Chettite.

My tears have been bread to me day and night, while they daily said to me, Where is thy God?

And they have compassed me with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

And Eleazar shall take of her blood, and sprinkle of her blood seven times in front of the tabernacle of witness.

Thou hast shewn thy people hard things: thou has made us drink the wine of astonishment.

And thou shalt take of these again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them up with fire: from thence shall come forth fire; and thou shalt say to the whole house of Israel,

Blow the trumpet at the new moon, in the glorious day of your feast.

And he said to me, Son of man, go thy way, and go in to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them.

For, behold, they have hunted after my soul; violent men have set upon me: neither is it my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord.

And the children of Israel did so, and sent them out of the camp: as the Lord said to Moses, so did the children of Israel.

Praise him with the sound of a trumpet: praise him with psaltery and harp.

Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sings praises to him with timbrel and psaltery.

Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have given my strength for vanity and for nothing: therefore is my judgment with the Lord, and my labour before my God.

And the hundred talents of silver went to the casting of the hundred chapiters of the tabernacle, and to the chapiters of the veil;

But know ye that the Lord has done wondrous things for his holy one: the Lord will hear me when I cry to him.

Judge the orphan and poor: do justice to the low and needy.

The Lord even God gives me the tongue of instruction, to know when it is fit to speak a word: he has appointed for me early, he has given me an ear to hear:

And thou shalt lie upon thy left side, and lay the iniquities of the house of Israel upon it, according to the number of the hundred and fifty days during which thou shalt lie upon it: and thou shalt bear their iniquities.

I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, among the people; I will sing praise to thee among the Gentiles.

Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all ye stars and light.

And thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord.

And we mastered all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we took not from them; sixty cities, all the country round about Argob, belonging to king Og in Basan:

Thy deliverer is the Lord of hosts, the Holy One of Israel is his name.

Yea verily, I have erred in truth, (but the error abides with myself) in having spoken words which it was not right to speak; and my words err, and are unreasonable.

As when I steadfastly pursued my ways, when God took care of my house.

And they shall be joined to thee, and shall keep the charges of the tabernacle of witness, in all the services of the tabernacle; and a stranger shall not approach to thee.

With thee is dominion in the day of thy power, in the splendours of thy saints: I have begotten thee from the womb before the morning.

They have turned aside the weak from the right way: and the meek of the earth have hidden themselves together.

May the Lord help him upon the bed of his pain; thou hast made all his bed in his sickness.

we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows.

For he will draw away thy son from me, and he will serve other gods; and the Lord will be very angry with you, and will soon utterly destroy thee.

Draw not away my soul with sinners, and destroy me not with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace with their neighbours, but evils are in their hearts.

And Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord has appointed you, saying,

I know that thou art stubborn, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy forehead brazen.

And I looked, and, behold, a sweeping wind came from the north, and a great cloud on it, and there was brightness round about it, and gleaming fire, and in the midst of it as it were the appearance of amber in the midst of the fire, and brightness in it.

Blessed shall be the offspring of thy body, and the fruits of thy land, and the herds of thy oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep.

Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.

I will speak just things truly, and thou shalt not unjustly receive unjust words.

and gathered them out of the countries, from the east, and west, and north, and south.

But thou, O Lord, art my helper: my glory, and the one that lifts up my head.

Turn us, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be delivered.

I am he; and until ye shall have grown old, I am he: I bear you, I have made, and I will relieve, I will take up and save you.

And thou shalt put them in the tabernacle of witness, before the testimony, where I will be made known to thee.

These are the beasts which ye shall eat; the calf of the herd, and lamb of the sheep, and kid of the goats;

He has made old my flesh and my skin; he has broken my bones.

DALETH. The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of its mouth for thirst: the little children ask for bread, and there is none to break it to them.

For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel mine elect, I will call thee by thy name, and accept thee: but thou hast not known me.

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

On behalf of the saints that are in his land, he has magnified all his pleasure in them.

DALETH. He has bent his bow as an opposing enemy: he has strengthened his right hand as an adversary, and has destroyed all the desirable things of my eyes in the tabernacle of the daughter of Sion: he has poured forth his anger as fire.

Who has not spoken craftily with is tongue, neither has done evil to his neighbour, nor taken up a reproach against them that dwelt nearest to him.

All which we have heard and known, and our fathers have declared to us.

and they shall spring up as grass between brooks, and as willows on the banks of running water.

Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do righteousness at all times.

Trust not in princes, nor in the children of men, in whom there is no safety.

And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the ninth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and they made a rampart round it, and built a wall round about it with large stones.

GIMEL. Judea is gone into captivity by reason of her affliction, and by reason of the abundance of her servitude: she dwells among the nations, she has not found rest: all her pursuers have overtaken her between her oppressors.

Though an army should set itself in array against me, my heart shall not be afraid: though war should rise up against me, in this am I confident.

And when Moses heard it, he fell on his face.

Since thou becamest precious in my sight, thou hast become glorious, and I have loved thee: and I will give men for thee, and princes for thy life.

yet I sent to you my servants the prophets early in the morning, and I sent, saying, Do not ye this abominable thing which I hate.

The Lord spoke to you face to face in the mountain out of the midst of the fire.

He makes thy borders peaceful, and fills thee with the flour of wheat.

For he is wise in mind, and mighty, and great: who has hardened himself against him and endured?

The Lord is great, and greatly to be praised; and there is no end to his greatness.

And your altars shall be broken to pieces, and your consecrated plats; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

saying, Let us break through their bonds, and cast away their yoke from us.

And these are the works of the sons of Caath in the tabernacle of witness; it is most holy.

For thy mercy is before mine eyes: and I am well pleased with thy truth.

I remembered God, and rejoiced; I poured out my complaint, and my soul fainted. Pause.

And Jeremias said to them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray for you to the Lord our God, according to your words; and it shall come to pass, that whatsoever word the Lord God shall answer, I will declare it to you; I will not hide anything from you.

Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou takest account of him?

then he that offers his gift to the Lord shall bring a meat-offering of fine flour, a tenth part of an ephah mingled with oil, even with the fourth part of a hin.

Who has wrought and done these things? he has called it who called it from the generations of old; I God, the first and to all futurity, I AM.

wide enough for the staves, so that men should bear the ark with them.

And it came to pass on the second day after he had smitten Godolias, and no man knew of it,

And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer into a rough valley, which has not been tilled and is not sown, and they shall slay the heifer in the valley.

Is it time for you to dwell in your ceiled houses, whereas our house is desolate?

But ye are all bad physicians, and healers of diseases.

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treads out the corn.

Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low: and all the crooked ways shall become straight, and the rough places plains.