Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

And the nations heard a report of him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him into the land of Egypt in chains.

There are no speeches or words, in which their voices are not heard.

who have sharpened their tongues as a sword; they have bent their bow maliciously;

I also will choose their mockeries, and will recompense their sins upon them; because I called them, and they did not hearken to me; I spoke, and they heard not: and they did evil before me, and chose the things wherein I delighted not.

Their waters have roared and been troubled, the mountains have been troubled by his might. Pause.

And the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

Who covers his chambers with waters; who makes the clouds his chariot; who walks on the wings of the wind.

There shall be in that day a failure of the glory of Jacob, and the riches of his glory shall be shaken.

Hast thou not called me as it were a home, and the father and guide of thy virgin-time?

in their blood which thou hast shed, thou hast transgressed; and in thy devices which thou hast formed, thou hast polluted thyself; and thou hast brought nigh thy days, and hast brought on the time of thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach to the Gentiles, and a mockery to all the countries,

And he brought me in by the way of the gate that looks northward, in front of the house: and I looked, and, behold, the house was full of the glory of the Lord: and I fell upon my face.

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.

And thou shalt take up this lamentation against the king of Babylon, How has the extortioner ceased, and the taskmaster ceased!

From of old we have not heard, neither have our eyes seen a God beside thee, and thy works which thou wilt perform to them that wait for mercy.

A voice of many nations on the mountains, even like to that of many nations; a voice of kings and nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts has given command to a war-like nation,

And as for thy birth in the day wherein thou wast born, thou didst not bind thy breasts, and thou wast not washed in water, neither wast thou salted with salt, neither wast thou swathed in swaddling-bands.

he cropped off the ends of the tender twigs, and brought them into the land of Chanaan; he laid them up in a walled city.

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine on the sides of thy house: thy children as young olive-plants round about thy table.

Their young will break forth; they will be multiplied with offspring: their young will go forth, and will not return to them.

Lift up thine hands against their pride continually; because of all that the enemy has done wickedly in thy holy places.

O Lord my God, if I have done this; (if there is unrighteousness in my hands;)

They shall be afraid, but I will trust in thee.

For the day of recompence has come upon them, and the year of redemption is at hand.

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,

It is only given to the fire to be consumed; the fire consumes that which is yearly pruned of it, and it is utterly gone. Will it be useful for any work?

Behold, the inheritance of the Lord, children, the reward of the fruit of the womb.

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

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

And in that day thou shalt say, sing to the Lord, call aloud upon his name, proclaim his glorious deeds among the Gentiles; make mention that his name is exalted.

And they shall build the old waste places, they shall raise up those that were before made desolate, and shall renew the desert cities, even those that had been desolate for many generations.

I will call upon the Lord with praises, and I shall be saved from mine enemies.

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

And the mixed multitude among them lusted exceedingly; and they and the children of Israel sat down and wept and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory has thundered: the Lord is upon many waters.

Publish his glory among the Gentiles, his wonderful works among all people.

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.

And the Lord thy God shall do to them as he did to Seon and Og the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond Jordan, and to their land, as he destroyed them.

The sinners wrought upon my back: they prolonged their iniquity.

And thou shalt no more be called Forsaken; and thy land shall no more be called Desert: for thou shalt be called My Pleasure, and thy land Inhabited: for the Lord has taken pleasure in thee, and thy land shall be inhabited.

And the Egyptians buried those that died of them, even all that the Lord smote, every first-born in the land of Egypt; also the Lord executed vengeance on their gods.

They lie down to sleep in the tombs and in the caves for the sake of dreams, even they that eat swine's flesh, and the broth of their sacrifices: all their vessels are defiled:

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:

For the Lord will not allow the rod of sinners to be upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous should stretch forth their hands to iniquity.

Thou shalt not see the ass of thy brother, or his calf, fallen in the way: thou shalt not overlook them, thou shalt surely help him to raise them up.

For the Lord is a great God, and a great king over all gods: for the Lord will not cast off his people.

but he shall judge the cause of the lowly, and shall reprove the lowly of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the word of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he destroy the ungodly one.

And this shall be the ordinance of the manslayer, who shall flee thither, and shall live, whosoever shall have smitten his neighbour ignorantly, whereas he hated him not in times past.

And it shall be as soon as ye are gone over Jordan, ye shall set up these stones, which I command thee this day, on mount Gaebal, and thou shalt plaster them with plaster.

For I was jealous of the transgressors, beholding the tranquility of sinners.

Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man.

Let that night be darkness, and let not the Lord regard it from above, neither let light come upon it.

My soul also is grievously vexed: but thou, O Lord, how long?

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

For the arrows of the Lord are in my body, whose violence drinks up my blood: whenever I am going to speak, they pierce me.

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

And he put a new song into my mouth, even a hymn to our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall hope in the Lord.

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.

They have shed their blood as water, round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

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.

How long shall sinners, O Lord, how long shall sinners boast?

His forces that were numbered, were seventy-four thousand and six hundred.

verily they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us:

the land which the Lord has delivered up before the children of Israel, is pasture land, and thy servants have cattle.

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?

Thy garments grew not old from off thee, thy shoes were not worn from off thee, thy feet were not painfully hardened, lo! these forty years.

because of the voice of the enemy, and because of the oppression of the sinner: for they brought iniquity against me, and were wrathfully angry with me.

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

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

The Lord has done great things among them. The Lord has done great things for us, we became joyful.

Anger has possessed thee: for what if thou shouldest die; would the earth under heaven be desolate? or shall the mountains be overthrown from their foundations?

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

Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold thy children gathered: all thy sons have come from far, and thy daughters shall be borne on men's shoulders.

Take the girdle that is upon thy loins, and arise, and go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.

And if they shall sound with one, all the rulers even the princes of Israel shall come 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;

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.

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.

Thou has proved mine heart; thou hast visited me by night; thou hast tried me as with fire, and unrighteousness has not been found in me: I am purposed that my mouth shall not speak amiss.

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.

But Elius had forborne to give an answer to Job, because they were older than he.

To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose breath is it that has come forth from thee?

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

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;

For strangers have risen up against me, and mighty men have sought my life: they have not set God before them. Pause.

Let the mountains and the hills raise peace to thy people:

on a psaltery of ten strings, with a song on the harp.

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 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.

Send a thousand of each tribe from all the tribes of the children of Israel to set themselves in array.

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,

Where wast thou when I founded the earth? tell me now, if thou hast knowledge,

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.

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

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.

Be to me a protecting God, and a strong hold to save me: for thou art my fortress and my refuge.

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.

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

Let not thy foot be moved; and let not thy keeper slumber.

And Moses ordered the children of Israel to sacrifice the passover,

And if a woman shall vow a vow to the Lord, or bind herself with an obligation in her youth in her father's house; and her father should hear her vows and her obligations, wherewith she has bound her soul, and her father should hold his peace at her, then all her vows shall stand,