Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

And now, thus saith the Lord that formed me from the womb to be his own servant, to gather Jacob to him and Israel. I shall be gathered and glorified before the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.

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.

Instead of loving me, they falsely accused me: but I continued to pray.

Look upon me, and wonder, laying your hand upon your cheek.

Thus saith the Lord to these bones; Behold, I will bring upon you the breath of life:

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

therefore, thus saith the Lord; Verily in the fire of my wrath have I spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Idumea, because they have appropriated my land to themselves for a possession with joy, disregarding the lives of the inhabitants, to destroy it by plunder:

Sit thou down pierced with woe, go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: thou shalt no more be called the strength of a kingdom.

They shall ask the way till they come to Sion, for that way shall they set their face; and they shall come and flee for refuge to the Lord their God; for the everlasting covenant shall not be forgotten.

For there is no unrighteous word in my tongue: behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things,

to come from a land afar off, from the utmost foundation of heaven; the Lord and his warriors are coming to destroy all the world.

For Israel and Juda have not been forsaken of their God, of the Lord Almighty; whereas their land was filled with iniquity against the holy things of Israel.

And thou shalt measure outside the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and your city shall be in the midst of this, and the suburbs of the cities as described.

And the three came forth to the tabernacle of witness; and the Lord descended in a pillar of a cloud, and stood at the door of the tabernacle of witness; and Aaron and Mariam were called; and both came forth.

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

They have sinned, not pleasing him; spotted children, a froward and perverse generation.

Thieves have risen up against me,

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

Why do they fear, and turn back? even because their mighty men shall be slain: they have utterly fled, and being hemmed in they have not rallied, saith the Lord.

For a thousand years in thy sight are as the yesterday which is past, and as a watch in the night.

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.

O Lord, make me to know mine end, and the number of my days, what it is; that I may know what I lack.

And my sheep were scattered, because there were no shepherds: and they became meat to all the wild beasts of the field.

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

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

And the border shall compass from Asemona to the river of Egypt, and the sea shall be the termination.

and the instruction of the Lord, even the Lord, opens mine ears, and I do not disobey, nor dispute.

Because thou hast been a perpetual enemy, and hast laid wait craftily for the house of Israel, with the hand of enemies with a sword, in the time of injustice, at the last:

I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my riddle on the harp.

Let all the kings of the earth, o Lord, give thanks unto thee; for they have heard all the words of thy mouth.

For thy mercy is great above the heavens, and thy truth reaches to the clouds.

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

But would that ye were silent, and it would be wisdom to you in the end.

who set the measures of it, if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it?

Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel; As these good figs, so will I acknowledge the Jews that have been carried away captive, whom I have sent forth out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for good.

Not so the ungodly; not so: but rather as the chaff which the wind scatters away from the face of the earth.

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.

For I am the Lord God, and there is no other God beside me; I strengthened thee, and thou hast not known me.

And they that hate thee have boasted in the midst of thy feast; they have set up their standards for signs,

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.

For what they have collected, the just shall eat; but they shall not be delivered out of calamities: let their strength be utterly exhausted.

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

One shall say, I am God's; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall write with his hand, I am God's, and shall call himself by the name of Israel.

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.

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

I will establish thy seed for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Pause.

We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt freely; and the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the garlic, and the onions.

And he shall have his loins girt with righteousness, and his sides clothed with truth.

For my transgressions have gone over mine head: they have pressed heavily upon me like a weighty burden.

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

Sing praise to the name of the Lord; for he has done great things: declare this in all the earth.

And they have departed like asses in the field, having gone forth on my account according to their own order: his bread is sweet to his little ones.

And the children of Israel departed from Ramesses, and encamped in Socchoth:

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.

Because he heard the sound of the trumpet, and took no heed, his blood shall be upon him: but the other, because he took heed, has delivered his soul.

The voice of the Lord is mighty; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.

For there is no sign of reluctance in their death: and they have firmness under their affliction.

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

They wandered in the wilderness in a dry land; they found no way to a city of habitation.

How should we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?

Who wears out the mountains, and men know it not: who overturns them in anger.

Woe to the Assyrians; the rod of my wrath, and anger are in their hands.

Fear not; for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and will gather thee from the west.

Shall giants be born from under the water and the inhabitants thereof?

Grant thee according to thy heart, and fulfill all thy desire.

And they that encamp next shall be of the tribe of Issachar, and the prince of the sons of Issachar shall be Nathanael the son of Sogar.

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.

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.

Thus saith the Lord God, who made the heaven, and established it; who settled the earth, and the things in it, and gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to them that tread on it:

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 said, If we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given to thy servants for a possession, and do not cause us to pass over Jordan.

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.

Blessed shall be thy barns, and thy stores.

For they have pulled down what thou didst frame, but what has the righteous done?

Thou art guilty by the words of thy mouth, neither hast thou discerned the words of the mighty.

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 ye shall sound an alarm, and the camps pitched eastward shall begin to move.

So Moses the servant of the Lord died in the land of Moab by the word of the Lord.

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

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

Remember us, O Lord, with the favour thou hast to thy people: visit us with thy salvation;

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

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

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

And the Lord spoke to me yet again, saying,

I have been reckoned with them that go down to the pit; I became as a man without help;

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 they numbered of the thousands of Israel a thousand of each tribe, twelve thousands; these were armed for war.

Seek ye the Lord, and be strengthened; seek his face continually.

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;

he shall judge the poor of the people in righteousness, and save the children of the needy; and shall bring low the false accuser.

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.

And he shall be prince with the beloved one, when the princes of the people are gathered together with the tribes of Israel.

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.

on the fourteenth day of the first month in the wilderness of Sina, as the Lord appointed Moses, so the children of Israel did.

and all the obligations with which she has bound her soul, shall remain to her.

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