Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

And thy words shall be brought down to the earth, and thy words shall sink down to the earth, and thy voice shall be as they that speak out of the earth, and thy voice shall be lowered to the ground.

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.

and put the pieces into it, every prime piece, the leg and shoulder taken off from the bones,

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

For thy mercy is better than life: my lips shall praise thee.

Then I said, It may be they are poor; for they are weak, for they know not the way of the Lord, or the judgment of God.

And their names were Oola the elder, and Ooliba her sister: and they were mine, and bore sons and daughters: and as for their names, Samaria was Oola, and Jerusalem was Ooliba.

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

Therefore I said, Let me alone, I will weep bitterly; labour not to comfort me for the breach of the daughter of my people.

Ye shall follow the Lord your God, and fear him, and ye shall hear his voice, and attach yourselves to him.

Thou hast traced my path and my bed, and hast foreseen all my ways.

Circumcise yourselves to your God, and circumcise your hardness of heart, ye men of Juda, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my wrath go forth as fire, and burn, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your devices.

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

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

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

therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of Kedem for an inheritance, and they shall lodge in thee with their stuff, and they shall pitch their tents in thee: they shall eat thy fruits, and they shall drink thy milk.

My heart wanders, and transgression overwhelms me; my soul is occupied with fear.

For none of them that wait on thee shall in any wise be ashamed: let them be ashamed that transgress without cause.

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

Shall I utterly take vengeance on them, son of man? testify to them of the iniquities of their fathers:

And if she should go away and be married to another man;

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

In whatsoever day I shall call upon thee, hear me speedily; thou shalt abundantly provide me with thy power in my soul.

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

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,

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,

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.

Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and every family of the house of Israel.

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

for thus shall the king of the Assyrians lead the captivity of Egypt and the Ethiopians, young men and old, naked and barefoot, having the shame of Egypt exposed.

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.

For there they that had taken us captive asked of us the words of a song; and they that had carried us away asked a hymn, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Sion.

For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord? or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself?

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

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.

And I will deliver Egypt into the hands of men, of cruel lords; and cruel kings shall rule over them: thus saith the Lord of hosts.

Who shall go up to the mountain of the Lord, and who shall stand in his holy place?

For all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son, they are mine: the soul that sins, it shall die.

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

For my days have vanished like smoke, and my bones have been parched like a stick.

How long will ye assault a man? ye are all slaughtering as with a bowed wall and a broken hedge.

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.

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

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

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:

He has subdued the peoples under us, and the nations under our feet.

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.

And this is the construction of the candlestick: it is solid, goldenits stem, and its liliesall solid: according to the pattern which the Lord shewed Moses, so he made the candlestick.

Give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endures for ever.

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?

Thou shalt offer one lamb in the morning, and thou shalt offer the second lamb towards evening.

For thus said the Lord to me, There shall be security in my city, as the light of noonday heat, and it shall be as a cloud of dew in the day of harvest.

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,

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

For say not, I am pure in my works, and blameless before him.

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?

who forgives all thy transgressions, who heals all thy diseases;

They have sharpened their tongue as the tongue of a serpent; the poison of asps is under their lips. Pause.

Glory in his holy name: let the heart of them that seek the Lord rejoice.

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

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

Be ashamed, O Sidon: the sea has said, yea, the strength of the sea has said, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, nor have I brought up young men, nor reared virgins.

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

And I will deliver them up for distress to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasses son of Ezekias king of Juda, for all that he did in Jerusalem.

And Moses brought their case before the Lord.

and thou and all that belong to thee shall fall, and the nations that are with thee shall be given to multitudes of birds, even to every fowl, and I have given thee to all the wild beasts of the field to be devoured.

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.

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

Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man.

Will he not see my way, and number all my steps?

And there came all the wise men who wrought the works of the sanctuary, each according to his own work, which they wrought.

And thou shalt make under its wreathen border two rings of pure gold; thou shalt make it to the two corners on the two sides, and they shall be bearings for the staves, so as to bear it with them.

Or dost thou see as a mortal sees? or wilt thou look as a man sees?

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.

I have not set before mine eyes any unlawful ting; I have hated transgressors.

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

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

The fugitives of Moab shall sojourn with thee; they shall be to you a shelter from the face of the pursuer: for thine alliance has been taken away, and the oppressing ruler has perished from off the earth.

because thou wert my hope, a tower of strength from the face of the enemy.

Praise ye the Lord; for the Lord is good: sing praises to his name; for it is good.

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.

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:

Whenever I lie down, I say, When will it be day? and whenever I rise up, again I say when will it be evening? and I am full of pains from evening to morning.

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.

Know that the Lord he is God; he made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

and what he did to the host of the Egyptians, and to their chariots, and their cavalry, and their host; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overwhelm the face of them as they pursued after you, and the Lord destroyed them until this day;

the law which Moses charged us, an inheritance to the assemblies of Jacob.

For Esebon and Eleale have cried: their voice was heard to Jassa: therefore the loins of the region of Moab cry aloud; her soul shall know.

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

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

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

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

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

They are all gone out of the way, they are together become good for nothing, there is none that does good, no not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace they have not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes.

And with you there shall be each one of the rulers according to the tribe of each: they shall be according to the houses of their families.

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.

This is the numbering from twenty years old and upward as the Lord commanded Moses. And the sons of Israel that came out of Egypt are as follows:

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.

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