Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

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

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

For thou hast maintained my cause and my right; thou satest on the throne, that judgest righteousness.

And I looked, and there was no helper; and I observed, and none upheld: therefore my arm delivered them, and mine anger drew nigh.

I have heard the report of thee by the ear before; but now mine eye has seen thee.

then shalt thou bring out that man, or that woman, and ye shall stone them with stones, and they shall die.

And the Lord said to me, Son of man, attend with thine heart, and see with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say to thee, according to all the ordinances of the house of the Lord, and all the regulations thereof; and thou shalt attend well to the entrance of the house, according to all its outlets, in all the holy things.

Their voice is gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

Thou shalt die in peace: and as they wept for thy fathers that reigned before thee, they shall weep also for thee, saying, Ah lord! and they shall lament for thee down to the grave: for I have spoken the word, said the Lord.

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

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

thou shalt not have power to sacrifice the passover in any of the cities, which the Lord thy God gives thee.

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 wherefore is this? Ye have brought us up out of Egypt, that we should come into this evil place; a place where there is no sowing, neither figs, nor vines, nor pomegranates, neither is there water to drink.

Delight thyself in the Lord; and he shall grant thee the requests of thine heart.

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

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

to fight against the Chaldeans, and to fill it with the corpses of men, whom I smote in mine anger and my wrath, and turned away my face from them, for all their wickedness:

Then the king said, Behold, he is in your hands. For the king could not resist them.

And if ye shall indeed hearken to the voice of the Lord your God, to keep and do all these commandments, as many as I charge thee this day,

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

And the Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the house of the Lord was full of glory.

the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the breadth twenty thousand: and the Levites that attend the house, they shall have cities to dwell in for a possession.

THE VISION OF THE QUADRUPEDS IN THE DESERT. In affliction and distress, where are the lion and lion's whelp, thence come also asps, and the young of flying asps, there shall they be who bore their wealth on asses and camels to a nation which shall not profit them.

who is the father of the orphans, and judge of the widows: such is God in his holy place.

And it shall be for a shadow from the heat, and as a shelter and a hiding place from inclemency of weather and from rain.

Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; and thy glory above all the earth.

But ye shall be called priests of the Lord, the ministers of God: ye shall eat the strength of nations, and shall be admired because of their wealth.

Every beast that divides the hoofs, and makes claws of two divisions, and that chews the cud among beasts, these ye shall eat.

And the priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet wool, and they shall cast them into the midst of the burning of the heifer.

All the day long they have abominated my words; all their devices are against me for evil.

AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO JEREMIAS, SAYING,

For they were triple, and they had not pillars like the pillars of the outer ones: therefore they projected from the lower ones and the middle ones from the ground.

And he entered by seven steps into the gate that looks eastward, and he measured across the porch of the gate equal to the reed.

For it is a day when those that plead on the mountains of Ephraim shall call, saying, Arise ye, and go up to Sion to the Lord your God.

And if thy brother by thy father or mother, or thy son, or daughter, or thy wife in thy bosom, or friend who is equal to thine own soul, entreat thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known,

Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Every man or woman who shall commit any sin that is common to man, or if that soul shall in anywise have neglected the commandment and transgressed;

And the thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels he formed into hooks for the pillars, and he gilt their chapiters and adorned them.

whose houses were the caves of the rocks, who lived under the wild shrubs.

To him who made the heavens by understanding; for his mercy endures for ever.

and the camels of Madiam and Gaepha shall cover thee: all from Saba shall come bearing gold, and shall bring frankincense, and they shall publish the salvation of the Lord.

Her stones are the place of the sapphire: and her dust supplies man with gold.

And I will forsake my vineyard; and it shall not be pruned, nor dug, and thorns shall come up upon it as on barren land; and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.

Enquire, and see if a male has born a child? and ask concerning the fear, wherein they shall hold their loins, and look for safety: for I have seen every man, and his hands are on his loins; their faces are turned to paleness.

from the Lord of Hosts: for there shall be a visitation with thunder, and earthquake, and a loud noise, a rushing tempest, and devouring flame of fire.

And the sides were twice ninety, side against side; and there was a space in the wall of the house at the sides round about, that they should be for them that take hold of them to see, that they should not at all touch the walls of the house.

For a man shall lay hold of his brother, as one of his father's household, saying, Thou hast raiment, be thou our ruler, and let my meat be under thee.

Let the peoples, O God, give thanks to thee; let all the peoples give thanks to thee.

And ye shall carry thither your whole-burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your first-fruits, and your vowed-offerings, and your freewill-offerings, and your offerings of thanksgiving, the first-born of your herds, and of your flocks.

Thou shalt not be afraid of terror by night; nor of the arrow flying by day;

Gomer, and all belonging to him; the house of Thorgama, from the end of the north, and all belonging to him; and many nations with thee.

and I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and will spread skin upon you, and will put my Spirit into you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

For I know that the Lord is great, and our Lord is above all gods;

and take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and be multiplied, and be not diminished.

And I have taken your brethren the Levites out of the midst of the children of Israel, a present given to the Lord, to minister in the services of the tabernacle of witness.

There were they alarmed with fear, where there was no fear; for God is in the righteous generation.

blue, purple, double scarlet spun, and fine linen spun, and goats' hair,

His glory is great in thy salvation: thou wilt crown him with glory and majesty.

On what are its rings fastened? and who is he that laid the corner-stone upon it?

and all the things that he did to Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab the son of Ruben, whom the earth opening her mouth swallowed up, and their houses, and their tents, and all their substance that was with them, in the midst of all Israel:

and Jeremias said, May the Lord indeed do thus; may he confirm thy word which thou dost prophesy, to return the vessels of the house of the Lord, and all the captivity, out of Babylon to this place.

They shall be left in the spirit of judgment for judgment, and for the strength of them that hinder slaying.

There is the voice of the Lord who breaks the cedars; the Lord will break the cedars of Libanus.

How have thy works been magnified, O Lord! thy thoughts are very deep.

therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the valleys, and to the forests, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because ye have borne the reproaches of the heathen:

Their web shall not become a garment, nor shall they at all clothe themselves with their works; for their works are works of iniquity.

Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

For in death no man remembers thee: and who will give thee thanks in Hades?

And I will send a fire upon Gog, and the islands shall be securely inhabited: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

And the children of Israel departed from Beeroth of the sons of Jakim to Misadai: there Aaron died, and there he was buried, and Eleazar his son was priest in his stead.

Thy weapons are sharpened, Mighty One, (the nations shall fall under thee) they are in the heart of the king's enemies.

For he has forsaken his people the house of Israel, because their land is filled as at the beginning with divinations, as the land of the Philistines, and many strange children were born to them.

Before them shall the people be crushed: every face shall be as the blackness of a caldron.

I gave the earth to Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon to serve him, and the wild beasts of the field to labour for him.

Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord God, verily thou hast sinned even to blood, therefore blood shall pursue thee.

And my sheep were scattered on every mountain, and on every high hill: yea, they were scattered on the face of the earth, and there was none to seek them out, nor to bring them back.

And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and all their chiefs gave him a rod each, for one chief a rod, according to the house of their families, twelve rods; and the rod of Aaron was in the midst of the rods.

they that are coming are the children of Jacob. Israel shall bud and blossom, and the world shall be filled with his fruit.

I have not chosen such a fast, saith the Lord; but do thou loose every burden of iniquity, do thou untie the knots of hard bargains, set the bruised free, and cancel every unjust account.

And he raised up a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, to make it known to their children:

And thou shalt know to-day, that it is not for thy righteousnesses the Lord thy God gives thee this good land to inherit, for thou art a stiff-necked people.

that we may behold the good of thine elect, that we may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that we may glory with thine inheritance.

until I find a place for the Lord, a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

then will I make this house as Selo, and I will make this city a curse to all the nations of all the earth.

Neither shall the transgressors continue in thy sight: thou hatest, O Lord, all them that work iniquity.

But I have hoped in thy mercy; my heart shall exult in thy salvation.

And thou shalt keep the commands of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

They have reaped a field that was not their own before the time: the poor have laboured in the vineyards of the ungodly without pay and without food.

But if the watchman see the sword coming, and do not sound the trumpet, and the people do not watch; and the sword come, and take a soul from among them, that soul is taken because of its iniquity; but the blood thereof will I require at the watchman's hand.

And the land shall be drenched with thy dung, because of thy multitude upon the mountains: I will fill the valleys with thee.

We will exult in thy salvation, and in the name of our God shall we be magnified: the Lord fulfil all thy petitions.

Years shall be vanity to them: let the morning pass away as grass.

O Lord, thy mercy is in the heaven; and thy truth reaches to the clouds.

That is thy portion, this is thy lot: and to them hast thou poured forth drink-offerings, and to these hast thou offered meat-offerings. Shall I not therefore be angry for these things?

Because they have not attended to the works of the Lord, even to the works of his hands, thou shalt pull them down, and shalt not build them up.

For thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God; and the Lord thy God chose thee to be to him a peculiar people beyond all nations that are upon the face of the earth.

Fear and trembling came upon me, and darkness covered me.

From the feet to the head, there is no soundness in them; neither wound, nor bruise, nor festering ulcer are healed: it is not possible to apply a plaister, nor oil, nor bandages.

This do ye: take to yourselves censers, Core and all his company;