Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will raise up to David a righteous branch, and a king shall reign and understand, and shall execute judgment and righteousness on the earth.

But if ye will not perform these words, by myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, that this house shall be brought to desolation.

And I will cast thy flesh upon the mountains, and will saturate them with thy blood.

But thus shall ye do to them; ye shall destroy their altars, and shall break down their pillars, and shall cut down their groves, and shall burn with fire the graven images of their gods.

Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will praise thee evermore. Pause.

If he gives an order to the moon, then it shines not; and the stars are not pure before him.

I sought the Lord diligently, and he hearkened to me, and delivered me from all my sojournings.

And he spoke to Core and all his assembly, saying, God has visited and known those that are his and who are holy, and has brought them to himself; and whom he has chosen for himself, he has brought to himself.

They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: my enemies that persecute me unrighteously are strengthened: then I restored that which I took not away.

For with thee is forgiveness: for thy name's sake

The nations saw, and feared; the ends of the earth drew nigh, and came together,

And I will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, with wrath and great anger.

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy mind, and with all thy soul, and all thy strength.

Therefore was his stature exalted above all the trees of the field, and his branches spread far by the help of much water.

Thieves have risen up against me,

And when the days of the banquet were completed, Job sent and purified them, having risen up in the morning, and offered sacrifices for them, according to their number, and one calf for a sin-offering for their souls: for Job said, Lest peradventure my sons have thought evil in their minds against God. Thus, then Job did continually.

He that is innocent in his hands and pure in his heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour.

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

who redeems thy life from corruption; who crowns thee with mercy and compassion;

I will not give sleep to mine eyes, nor slumber to mine eyelids, nor rest to my temples,

Yea, even if I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will not be afraid of evils: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, these have comforted me.

Sing to God, sing praises to his name: make a way for him that rides upon the west (the Lord is his name) and exult before him. They shall be troubled before the face of him,

The righteous Lord has cut asunder the necks of sinners.

and built high places for Baal, to burn their children in the fire, which things I commanded not, neither did I design them in my heart:

And the glory of the Lord shall appear, and all flesh shall see the salvation of God: for the Lord has spoken it.

And I will give all the strength of this city, and all the labours of it, and all the treasures of the king of Juda, into the hands of his enemies, and they shall bring them to Babylon.

And I stood between the Lord and you at that time to report to you the words of the Lord, (because ye were afraid before the fire, and ye went not up to the mountain) saying,

And for a drink-offering ye shall offer the fourth part of a hin on the whole-burnt-offering, or on the meat-offering: for every lamb thou shalt offer so much, as a sacrifice, a smell of sweet savour to the Lord.

And he made the propitiatory over the ark of pure gold,

But the Lord thy God would not hearken to Balaam; and the Lord thy God changed the curses into blessings, because the Lord thy God loved thee.

I remembered these things, and poured out my soul in me, for I will go to the place of thy wondrous tabernacle, even to the house of God, with a voice of exultation and thanksgiving and of the sound of those who keep festival.

And Esaias said to him, Hear the word of the Lord of hosts:

By thy abundant knowledge and thy traffic thou hast multiplied thy power; thy heart has been lifted up by thy power.

and I will quickly cast down thee and all the fish of thy river: thou shalt fall on the face of the plain, and shalt by no means be gathered, and shalt not be brought together: I have given thee for food to the wild beasts of the earth and to the fowls of the sky.

Persians, and Cretans, and Lydians, and Libyans, and all the mixed multitude, and they of the children of my covenant, shall fall by the sword therein.

For the word of the Lord is right; and all his works are faithful.

Be ye angry, and sin not; feel compunction upon your beds for what ye say in your hearts. Pause.

And the Lord thy God shall bring thee in from thence into the land which thy fathers have inherited, and thou shalt inherit it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.

And the Lord has delivered them to you; and ye shall do to them, as I charged you.

For lo! God assists me; and the Lord is the helper of my soul.

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

My heart was troubled within me; and the fear of death fell upon 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 now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be for a spoil; and I will pull down its walls, and it shall be left to be trodden down.

Behold, I have shewn you ordinances and judgments as the Lord commanded me, that ye should do so in the land into which ye go to inherit it.

I am blighted like grass, and my heart is dried up; for I have forgotten to eat my bread.

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.

They have said, Come, and let us utterly destroy them out of the nation; and let the name of Israel be remembered no more at all.

And my body is covered with loathsome worms; and I waste away, scraping off clods of dust from my eruption.

Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that fears the Lord.

Let the nations rejoice and exult, for thou shalt judge the peoples in equity, and shalt guide the nations on the earth. Pause.

A perverse heart has not cleaved to me; I have not known an evil man, forasmuch as he turns away from me.

As arrows in the hand of a mighty man; so are the children of those who were outcasts.

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

And he shall come, and it shall be with regard to every place of mount Sion, yea, all the region round about it shall a cloud overshadow by day, and there shall be as it were the smoke and light of fire burning by night: and upon all the glory shall be a defence.

Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, and seen thy tears: behold, I will add to thy time fifteen years.

all strong cities, lofty walls, gates and bars; besides the very many cities of the Pherezites.

Is not thy wickedness abundant, and thy sins innumerable?

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.

Thus saith the Lord, Enter not into their mourning feast, and go not to lament, and mourn not for them: for I have removed my peace from this people.

Rescue the needy, and deliver the poor out of the hand of the sinner.

Nay, but put forth thine hand, and touch his bones and his flesh: verily he will bless thee to thy face.

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

I said, O Lord, have mercy upon me; heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

So the servants of king Ezekias came to Esaias.

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

Will not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up my people as they would eat bread? they have not called upon the Lord.

And Moses and Aaron fell upon their face before all the congregation of the children of Israel.

Do good, O Lord, to them that are good, and to them that are upright in heart.

Do not engage in war against them, for I will not give you of their land even enough to set your foot upon, for I have given mount Seir to the children of Esau as an inheritance.

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;

But alas! for ye magnify yourselves against me, and insult me with reproach.

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

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.

Is war carried on with counsel and mere words of the lips? and now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?

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

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?

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: I became thoroughly miserable while a thorn was fastened in me. Pause.

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

Thou has loved all words of destruction, and a deceitful tongue.

Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall hear.

I cried to the Lord with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy mountain. Pause.

Our fathers hoped in thee; they hoped, and thou didst deliver them.

Let all the earth worship thee, and sing to thee; let them sing to thy name. Pause.

verily the water would have drowned us, our soul would have gone under the torrent.

For this is an ordinance for Israel, and a statute of the God of Jacob.

beyond Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying,

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.

And one kid of the goats for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you.

And the king's honour loves judgment; thou hast prepared equity, thou hast wrought judgment and justice in Jacob.

And now, O house of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.

And Moses charged the children of Israel by the commandment of the Lord, saying, Thus says the tribe of the children of Joseph.

And they made the veil of the door of the tabernacle of witness of blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen twined, woven work with cherubs,

And these are their names: of the tribe of Ruben, Samuel the son of Zachur.

Why should ye be smitten any more, transgressing more and more? the whole head is pained, and the whole heart sad.

Yet now that pain has come upon thee, and touched thee, thou art troubled.

In his sight an evil-worker is set at nought, but he honours them that fear the Lord. He swears to his neighbour, and disappoints him not.

If thou hast sinned, what wilt thou do?

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?