Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

Thou shalt fall on the face of the field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord.

His lightnings appeared to the world; the earth saw, and trembled.

Shout to God, all the earth; sing, and exult, and sing psalms.

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with hymns; give thanks to him, praise his name.

And now why are ye here? Thus saith the Lord, Because my people was taken for nothing, wonder ye and howl. Thus saith the Lord, On account of you my name is continually blasphemed among the Gentiles.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And thou shalt offer the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat-offering, mingled with oil, with the fourth part of a hin.

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

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

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

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

Let now all that fear the Lord say, that he is good: for his mercy endures for ever.

But he was wounded on account of our sins, and was bruised because of our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and by his bruises we were healed.

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 the Egyptians shall drink the water that is by the sea, but the river shall fail, and be dried up.

And thou shalt make the staves of incorruptible wood, and shalt gild them with gold.

Build ye houses, and inhabit them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruits thereof;

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

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

And one said to Moses, The people bring an abundance too great in proportion to all the works which the Lord has appointed them to do.

Persians, and Ethiopians, and Libyans; all with helmets and shields.

And he measured the wall of the house, six cubits: and the breadth of each side, four cubits round about.

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

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

Behold, I will bring terror upon thee, saith the Lord, from all the country round about thee; and ye shall be scattered every one right before him, and there is none to gather you.

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

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

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:

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:

Before the reaping time, when the flower has been completely formed, and the unripe grape has put forth its flower and blossomed, then shall he take away the little clusters with pruning-hooks, and shall take away the small branches, and cut them off;

And he led you forty years in the wilderness; your garments did not grow old, and your sandals were not worn away off your feet.

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

Man is like to vanity: his days pass as a shadow.

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

My righteousness speedily draws nigh, and my salvation shall go forth as light, and on mine arm shall the Gentiles trust: the isles shall wait for me, and on mine arm shall they trust.

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.

My heart was troubled within me; and the fear of death fell upon me.

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

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 I will go in to the altar of God, to God who gladdens my youth: I will give thanks to thee on the harp, O God, my God.

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.

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

And it shall be as if one should gather standing corn, and reap the grain of the ears; and it shall be as if one should gather ears in a rich valley;

Ruben was the first-born of Israel: and the sons of Ruben, Enoch, and the family of Enoch; to Phallu belongs the family of the Phalluites.

And these are the names of the men who shall be present with you; of the tribe of Ruben, Elisur the son of Sediur.

Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ascalon is cast away, and the remnant of the Enakim.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Therefore my spirit was grieved in me; my heart was troubled within me.

And Moses said to the tribes of Israel, Slay ye every one his friend that is consecrated to Beel-phegor.

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

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

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

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

And I told thee of old what should be before it came upon thee; I made it known to thee, lest thou shouldest say, My idols have done it for me; and shouldest say, My graven and molten images have commanded me.

And a throne shall be established with mercy; and one shall sit upon it with truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and earnestly seeking judgments, and hasting righteousness.

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.

The Lord is high above all the nations; his glory is above the heavens.

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

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

Thou hast commanded us diligently to keep thy precepts.

Blessed shall be thy barns, and thy stores.

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

Turn ye every one from his evil way, and from your evil practices, and ye shall dwell in the land which I gave to you and your fathers, of old and for ever.

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

Thieves have risen up against me,

I looked on my right hand, and behold, for there was none that noticed me; refuge failed me; and there was none that cared for my soul.

The heart of the region of Moab cries within her to Segor; for it is as a heifer of three years old: and on the ascent of Luith they shall go up to thee weeping by the way of Aroniim: she cries, Destruction, and trembling.

To the upright light has sprung up in darkness: he is pitiful, and merciful, and righteous.

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.

How goodly are thy habitations, Jacob, and thy tents, Israel!

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

And thou shalt build there an altar to the Lord thy God, an altar of stones; thou shalt not lift up iron upon it.

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.

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

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

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.

and he shall answer and say before the Lord thy God, My father abandoned Syria, and went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a small number, and became there a mighty nation and a great multitude.

O Lord God of hosts, how long art thou angry with the prayer of thy servant?

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.

Will none of the workers of iniquity know, who devour my people as they would eat bread? they have not called upon God. There were they greatly afraid, where there was no fear:

And Aaron and his sons shall go in, when the camp is about to move, and shall take down the shadowing veil, and shall cover with it the ark of the testimony.

They were not hid from their children to a second generations; the fathers declaring the praises of the Lord, and his mighty acts, and his wonders which he wrought.

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.

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.

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.

Blessed is he whom thou hast chosen and adopted; he shall dwell in thy courts; we shall be filled with the good things of thy house; thy temple is holy.

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

And if brethren should live together, and one of them should die, and should not have seed, the wife of the deceased shall not marry out of the family to a man not related: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and shall take her to himself for a wife, and shall dwell with her.

Incline not my heart to evil things, to employ pretexts for sins, with me who work iniquity: and I will not. let me not unite with their choice ones.

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

And God put a word into the mouth of Balaam, and said, thou shalt return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak.

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

He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered: the Lord is merciful and compassionate.