Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

The words of his mouth are transgression and deceit: he is not inclined to understand how to do good.

Speak not in thine heart, when the Lord thy God has destroyed these nations before thy face, saying, For my righteousness the Lord brought me in to inherit this good land.

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

For before the child shall know how to call his father or his mother, one shall take the power of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria before the king of the Assyrians.

Therefore speak to them, and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord; Any man of the house of Israel, who shall conceive his devices in his heart, and shall set the punishment of his iniquity before his face, and shall come to the prophet; I the Lord will answer him according to the things in which his mind is entangled,

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

None speaks justly, neither is there true judgment: they trust in vanities, and speak empty words; for they conceive trouble, and bring forth iniquity.

Ye shall not do so to the Lord your God.

But let the righteous rejoice; let them exult before God: let them be delighted with joy.

Turn not man back to his low place, whereas thou saidst, Return, ye sons of men?

There is a cutting off the torrent by reason of dust: so they that forget the right way are weakened; they are removed from among men.

For they that work iniquity have not walked in his ways.

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 prophets, O Israel, are like foxes in the deserts.

He has restored my soul: he has guided me into the paths of righteousness, for his name's sake.

But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask thee, and do thou teach me.

Let the Lord destroy all the deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaks great words:

Because I will destroy out of thee the unrighteous and the transgressor, therefore so shall my sword come forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:

And thou shalt carry forth thy baggage, baggage for captivity, by day before their eyes: and thou shalt go forth at even, as a captive goes forth, in their sight.

Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man.

because they met you not with bread and water by the way, when ye went out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Mesopotamia to curse thee.

Look up to the sky and see; and consider the clouds, how high they are above thee.

Then the glory of the Lord departed from the cherubs to the porch of the house; and the cloud filled the house, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the Lord.

God, our God, shall come manifestly, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall be kindled before him, and round about him there shall be a very great tempest.

What should be given to thee, and what should be added to thee, for thy crafty tongue?

And they said one to another, Let us make a ruler, and return into Egypt.

Wilt thou maintain and plead thine own cause? and will he enter into judgment with thee?

If ye fast for quarrels and strifes, and smite the lowly with your fists, wherefore do ye fast to me as ye do this day, so that your voice may be heard in crying?

Thus saith the Lord to the eunuchs, as many as shall keep my sabbaths, and choose the things which I take pleasure in, and take hold of my covenant;

And charge the people, saying, Ye are going through the borders of your brethren the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they shall fear you, and dread you greatly.

Let the nations, O God, give thanks to thee; let all the nations give thanks to thee.

Bring forth a sword, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say to my soul, I am thy salvation.

My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall bring forth understanding.

And, behold, the glory of the Lord God of Israel was there, according to the vision which I saw in the plain.

And he wrote upon the tables according to the first writing the ten commandments, which the Lord spoke to you in the mountain out of the midst of the fire, and the Lord gave them to me.

The pangs of death compassed me; the dangers of hell found me: I found affliction and sorrow.

And the lintel shook at the voice they uttered, and the house was filled with smoke.

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

I made a covenant with my chosen ones, I sware unto David my servant.

And said to him, Go through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that groan and that grieve for all the iniquities that are done in the midst of them.

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

For my soul is filled with troubles, and my life has drawn nigh to Hades.

Behold I have made him a testimony among the Gentiles, a prince and commander to the Gentiles.

What shall I do any more to my vineyard, that I have not done to it? Whereas I expected it to bring forth grapes, but it has brought forth thorns.

Let us choose judgment to ourselves: let us know amount ourselves what is right.

Say unto God, How awful are thy works! through the greatness of thy power thine enemies shall lie to thee.

But our God has done in heaven and on earth, whatsoever he has pleased.

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

after he had smitten Seon king of the Amorites who dwelt in Esebon, and Og the king of Basan who dwelt in Astaroth and in Edrain;

Magnify ye the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.

He bears our sins, and is pained for us: yet we accounted him to be in trouble, and in suffering, and in affliction.

And thou shalt say to him, Take care to be quiet, and fear not, neither let thy soul be disheartened because of these two smoking firebrands: for when my fierce anger is over, I will heal again.

And if there shall be a release of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which the women marry, and their inheritance, shall be taken away from the inheritance of our family's tribe.

Fear not, because thou has been put to shame, neither be confounded, because thou was reproached: for thou shalt forget thy former shame, and shalt no more at all remember the reproach of thy widowhood.

Wherein have ye been rioting? and against whom have ye opened your mouth, and against whom have ye loosed your tongue? are ye not children of perdition? a lawless seed?

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,

the inhabitant of the land: the time is come, the day has drawn nigh, not with tumult, nor with pangs.

And Moses sent them out of the wilderness of Pharan by the word of the Lord; all these were the princes of the sons of Israel.

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.

The sea saw and fled: Jordan was turned back.

And they put it on four posts of incorruptible wood overlaid with gold; and their chapiters were gold, and their four sockets were silver.

Glorious things have been spoken of thee, O city of God. Pause.

Thus saith the Lord, My people went down before to Egypt to sojourn there; and were carried away forcibly to the Assyrians.

a tenth deal for each several ram, for the seven lambs.

For who shall be pure from uncleanness? not even one;

God is known in her palaces, when he undertakes to help her.

For behold the sinners have bent their bow, they have prepared their arrows for the quiver, to shoot For privily at the upright in heart.

For the Lord shall wash away the filth of the sons and daughters of Sion, and shall purge out the blood from the midst of them, with the spirit of judgment, and the spirit of burning.

And I will make youths their princes, and mockers shall have dominion over them.

And Nadab and Abiud died before the Lord, when they offered strange fire before the Lord, in the wilderness of Sina; and they had no children; and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priests' office with Aaron their father.

Hear me, hear me, my people; and ye kings, hearken to me: for a law shall proceed from me, and my judgment shall be for a light of the nations.

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

And the Lord said immediately to Moses and Aaron and Mariam, Come forth all three of you to the tabernacle of witness.

And the suburbs of the cities which ye shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outwards two thousand cubits round about.

And the devil answered and said to the Lord, Skin for skin, all that a man has will he give as a ransom for his life.

Let their children be far from safety, and let them be crushed at the doors of vile men, and let there be no deliverer.

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

From the rising of the sun to his setting, the name of the Lord is to be praised.

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

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.

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.

As for God, his works are true, and all his ways are judgment: God is faithful, and there is no unrighteousness in him; just and holy is the Lord.

Who will open the face of his garment? and who can enter within the fold of his breastplate?

And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plow-shares, and their spears into sickles: and nation shall not take up sword against nation, neither shall they learn to war any more.

But thou, the praise of Israel, dwellest in a sanctuary.

that ye may not fall into captivity? For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is yet exalted.

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.

And your border shall go round you from the south to the ascent of Acrabin, and shall proceed by Ennac, and the going forth of it shall be southward to Cades Barne, and it shall go forth to the village of Arad, and shall proceed by Asemona.

Sing to him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise.

Glory and riches shall be in his house; and his righteousness endures for evermore.

my lips shall not speak evil words, neither shall my soul meditate unrighteous thoughts.

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.

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.

For thou hast prevented him with blessings of goodness: thou has set upon his head a crown of precious stone.

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

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.

And who shall tell my Lord? the Lord himself, he himself hears.

Ah sinful nation, a people full of sins, an evil seed, lawless children: ye have forsaken the Lord, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

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

Leaven shall not be seen with thee in all thy borders for seven days, and there shall not be left of the flesh which thou shalt sacrifice at even on the first day until the morning.