Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

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.

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

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

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

And the sword shall come upon the Egyptians, and there shall be tumult in Ethiopia, and in Egypt men shall fall down slain together, and her foundations shall fall.

and I will stretch thee upon the earth: the fields shall be covered with thee, and I will cause all the birds of the sky to settle upon thee, and I will fill with thee all the wild beasts of the earth.

His work is worthy of thanksgiving and honour: and his righteousness endures for ever and ever.

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

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.

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

For there are princes in Tanes, evil messengers.

And I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy river to stick to thy sides, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy river:

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

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

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

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.

In the heart of the sea thy sons have put beauty upon thee for Beelim.

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:

How long shall the land mourn, and the grass of the field wither, for the wickedness of them, that dwell in it? the beasts and birds are utterly destroyed; because the people said, God shall not see our ways.

Hast thou gained power for thyself by thine own knowledge or thine own prudence, and gotten gold and silver in thy treasures?

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.

which I commanded your fathers, in the day wherein I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, Hearken to my voice, and do all things that I shall command you; so shall ye be to me a people, and I will be to you a God;

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.

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

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

They are beautified with silver and gold, they fix them with hammers and nails;

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.

And they shall cast down the walls of Sor, and shall cast down thy towers: and I will scrape her dust from off her, and make her a bare rock.

And the Lord said to Moses, Take all the princes of the people, and make them examples of judgment for the Lord in the face of the sun, and the anger of the Lord shall be turned away from Israel.

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

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

And the fading flower of the glorious hope on the top of the high mountain shall be as the early fig; he that sees it, before he takes it into his hand, will desire to swallow it down.

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.

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.

Beware ye each of his neighbour, and trust ye not in your brethren: for every one will surely supplant, and every friend will walk craftily.

For thus saith the Lord, Shall not he that falls arise? or he that turns away, shall he not turn back again?

Let them that say to me, Aha, aha, be turned back and put to shame immediately.

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

he says who hears the oracle of the Mighty One, who saw a vision of God in sleep; his eyes were opened:

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.

and hast supported the failing with words, and hast imparted courage to feeble knees.

There is no woman that has not taken hold of it; who will set me to watch stubble in the field? because of this enemy I have set her aside; therefore on this account the Lord has done all that he appointed.

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 thou art my strength and my refuge; and thou shalt guide me for thy name's sake, and maintain me.

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.

Prepare yourselves for war against her; rise up, and let us go up against her at noon. Woe to us! for the day has gone down, for the shadows of the day fail.

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.

For thou hast been a helper to every lowly city, and a shelter to them that were disheartened by reason of poverty: thou shalt deliver them from wicked men: thou hast been a shelter of them that thirst, and a refreshing air to injured men.

And Balaam went to enquire of God; and he went straight forward, and God appeared to Balaam; and Balaam said to him, I have prepared the seven altars, and have offered a calf and a ram on every altar.

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

For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has brought my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in a dark place, as those that have been long dead.

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

When my spirit was fainting within me, then thou knewest my paths; in the very way wherein I was walking, they hid a snare for me.

The earth mourns, and the world is ruined, the lofty ones of the earth are mourning.

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.

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?

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 the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Trust not in yourselves with lying words, for they shall not profit you at all, saying, It is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.

I am weary of crying, my throat has become hoarse; mine eyes have failed by my waiting on my God.

Who compass the salt places on the sounding shore, who had salt herbs for their food, and were dishonorable and of no repute, in want of every good thing; who also ate roots of trees by reason of great hunger.

Remember all thy sacrifice, and enrich thy whole-burnt-offering. Pause.

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,

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

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

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.

O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from Hades, thou hast delivered me from among them that go down to the pit.

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

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

And Moab said to the elders of Madiam, Now shall this assembly lick up all that are round about us, as a calf would lick up the green herbs of the field:and Balac son of Sepphor was king of Moab at that time.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

and thou shalt bring in the table and shalt set forth that which is to be set forth on it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick and place its lamps on it.

When mine enemies are turned back, they shall be feeble and perish at thy presence.

Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man.

Pity me, O Lord: for to thee will I cry all the day.

They have all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, there is not even one.

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

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.

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

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.

Set a watch, O Lord, on my mouth, and a strong door about by lips.

For I will regard the heavens, the work of thy fingers; the moon and stars, which thou hast established.

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.

all the days of his vow: he shall eat no one of all the things that come from the vine, wine from the grape-stones to the husk,

And having departed from mount Or by the way leading to the Red Sea, they compassed the land of Edom, and the people lost courage by the way.

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.

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 the heart of the weak ones shall attend to hear, and the stammering tongues shall soon learn to speak peace.