Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

And Rabsaces said to them, Say to Ezekias, Thus says the great king, the king of the Assyrians, Why art thou secure?

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

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.

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

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.

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.

And I would plead my own cause, and he would fill my mouth with arguments.

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:

Because the yoke that was laid upon them has been taken away, and the rod that was on their neck: for he has broken the rod of the exactors, as in the day of Madiam.

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

And wherefore have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, to kill us and our cattle?

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

and I sent to you my servants the prophets, sending them early; (but ye hearkened not, and listened not with your ears;) saying,

Jerusalem is built as a city whose fellowship is complete.

For thus there shall not be a poor person in the midst of thee, for the Lord thy God will surely bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God gives thee by inheritance, that thou shouldest inherit it.

Because they forsook me, and profaned this place, and burnt incense in it to strange gods, which they and their fathers knew not; and the kings of Juda have filled this place with innocent blood,

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.

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

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

and he that hears the sound of the trumpet shall hear indeed, and yet not take heed, and the sword shall come upon him, and overtake him, his blood shall be upon his own head.

And in front of the chambers was a walk ten cubits in breadth, the length reaching to a hundred cubits; and their doors were northward.

And the mountains shall be shaken under him, and the valleys shall melt like wax before the fire, and as water rushing down a declivity.

Praise him with timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and the organ.

One thing have I asked of the Lord, this will I earnestly seek: that I should dwell in the house of the Lord, all the days of my life, that I should behold the fair beauty of the Lord, and survey his temple.

if I have requited with evil those who requited me with good; may I then perish empty by means of my enemies.

Sharpened weapons of the mighty, with coals of the desert.

For, behold the kings of the earth were assembled, they came together.

My sword has been made drunk in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and with judgment upon the people doomed to destruction.

Who will spare thee, O Jerusalem? and who will fear for thee? or who will turn back to ask for thy welfare?

She shall be in the midst of the sea a place for repairing nets: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord: and it shall be a spoil for the nations.

the stag, and doe, and pygarg, and wild goat, and camelopard.

And I will give up the city of Ammon for camels' pastures, and the children of Ammon for a pasture of sheep: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

And they shall burn her to ashes before him; and her skin and her flesh and her blood, with her dung, shall be consumed.

The God who dwells on high is holy: Sion is filled with judgment and righteousness.

which are taken from choice cattle, and burn the bones under them: her bones are boiled and cooked in the midst of her.

And that prophet or that dreamer of a dream, shall die; for he has spoken to make thee err from the Lord thy God who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, who redeemed thee from bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk in: so shalt thou abolish the evil from among you.

And hinds calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

All mine enemies set a watch against me: I was troubled, and spoke not.

a hundred chapiters to the hundred talents, a talent to a chapiter.

He devises iniquity on his bed; he gives himself to every evil way; and does not abhor evil.

I will dwell in thy tabernacle for ever; I will shelter myself under the shadow of thy wings. Pause.

For the ends of the earth are in his hands; and the heights of the mountains are his.

So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me.

Cedar in Senir was employed for thee in building: boards of cypress timber were taken out of Libanus, and wood to make thee masts of fir.

And they shall no more at all tell a fool to rule, and thy servants shall no more at all say, Be silent.

Thy feet run, and they cause thee to faint; how wilt thou prepare to ride upon horses? and thou hast been confident in the land of thy peace? how wilt thou do in the roaring of Jordan?

He has chosen out his inheritance for us, the beauty of Jacob which he loved. Pause.

But in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose in one of your cities to name his name there, and to be called upon, ye shall even seek him out and go thither.

Thou hast given a token to them that fear thee, that they might flee from the bow. Pause.

Thou dost wonderfully shine forth from the everlasting mountains.

Assume now a lofty bearing and power; and clothe thyself with glory and honour.

and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord; From the day that I chose the house of Israel, and became known to the seed of the house of Jacob, and was known to them in the land of Egypt, and helped them with my hand, saying, I am the Lord your God;

that I may confirm mine oath, which I sware to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then I answered and said, So be it, O Lord.

Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and the water that is above the heavens.

I have not sat with the council of vanity, and will in nowise enter in with transgressors.

to those near thee, and to those far distant from thee; and they shall mock thee, thou that art notoriously unclean, and abundant in iniquities.

And Oola went a-whoring from me, and doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians that were her neighbors,

And ye shall keep the charges of the holy things, and the charges of the altar, and so there shall not be anger among the children of Israel.

Return, O Lord, deliver my soul: save me for thy mercy's sake.

As birds flying, so shall the Lord of hosts defend; he shall defend Jerusalem, and he shall rescue, and save and deliver.

and all the things which he did to you in the wilderness until ye came into this place;

Take of yourselves an offering for the Lord: every one that engages in his heart shall bring the first-fruits to the Lord; gold, silver, brass,

And she saw that he was driven away from her, and her hope of him perished, and she took another of her whelps; she made him a lion.

For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised: he is terrible above all gods.

Or is thy life human, or thy years the years of a man,

Behold, he that keeps Israel shall not slumber nor sleep.

They will utter and speak unrighteousness; all the workers of iniquity will speak so.

The pangs of death compassed me, and the torrents of ungodliness troubled me exceedingly.

For the Lord takes pleasure in his people; and will exalt the meek with salvation.

Then I called on the name of the Lord: O Lord, deliver my soul.

For Job has said, I am righteous: the Lord has removed my judgment.

And I turned and came down from the mountain, and I put the tables into the ark which I had made; and there they were, as the Lord commanded me.

He sends his oracle to the earth: his word will run swiftly.

In vain shall they labour in seeking to a people, which shall not profit them for help, but shall be for a shame and reproach.

at the voices of many waters: the billows of the sea are wonderful: the Lord is wonderful in high places.

Every one will mock his friend; they will not speak truth: their tongue has learned to speak falsehoods; they have committed iniquity, they ceased not, so as to return.

And he took of the seed of the land, and sowed it in a field planted by much water; he set it in a conspicuous place.

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the works of men's hands.

Nor did mine eye pity thee, to do for thee one of all these things, to feel at all for thee; but thou wast cast out on the face of the field, because of the deformity of thy person, in the day wherein thou wast born.

The flowings of the river gladden the city of God: the Most High has sanctified his tabernacle.

Let them that seek my soul be ashamed and confounded: let them that devise evils against me be turned back and put to shame.

And it shall be, the man whom I shall choose, his rod shall blossom; and I will remove from me the murmuring of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you.

Wherefore has this my people turned away with a shameless revolting, and strengthened themselves in their willfulness, and refused to return?

Not for thy righteousness, nor for the holiness of thy heart, dost thou go in to inherit their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord will destroy them from before thee, and that he may establish the covenant, which the Lord sware to our fathers, to Abraam, and to Isaac, and to Jacob.

As for the works of men, by the words of thy lips I have guarded myself from hard ways.

He numbers the multitudes of stars; and calls them all by names.

Not even while it is yet whole will it be useful for any work: if the fire shall have utterly consumed it, will it still be fit for work?

For if ye thoroughly correct your ways and your practices, and do indeed execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

But the wealth of the ungodly shall be as dust from a wheel, and the multitude of them that oppress thee as flying chaff, and it shall be suddenly as a moment,

that he should turn aside the house of Israel, according to their hearts that are estranged from me in their thoughts.

I said unto the transgressors, Do not transgress; and to the sinners, Lift not up the horn.

The mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like lambs.

But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up.

And thou shalt know in thine heart, that as if any man should chasten his son, so the Lord thy God will chasten thee.

But the man who shall be just, who executes judgment and righteousness,

Shew me thy ways, O Lord; and teach me thy paths.

And who is he that sent forth the wild ass free? and who loosed his bands?

Rise, and let us go up against her by night, and destroy her foundations.