Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

Wherefore art thou very sad, O my soul? and wherefore dost thou trouble me? hope in God; for I will give thanks to him; he is the salvation of my countenance.

They have a mouth, but they cannot speak; they have eyes, but they cannot see:

My people are like as if they had no knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt not minister as priest to me: and as thou has forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.

Hell is naked before him, and destruction has no covering.

And they said not, Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who guided us in the wilderness, in an untried and trackless land, in a land which no man at all went through, and no man dwelt there?

Behold, thou trustest on this bruised staff of reed, on Egypt: as soon as a man leans upon it, it shall go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharao king of Egypt and all that trust in him.

and the two cherubs of gold;

And he said to me, Hast thou seen this, son of man? Then he brought me, and led me back to the brink of the river

I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

And for a ram, when ye offer it as a whole-burnt-offering or as a sacrifice, thou shalt prepare as a meat-offering two tenths of fine flour mingled with oil, the third part of a hin.

I cried unto thee, O Lord, and said, Thou art my hope, my portion in the land of the living.

Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness; and my joyful lips shall praise thy name.

And the wolf shall feed with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the young calf and bull and lion shall feed together; and a little child shall lead them.

For in the day of mine afflictions he hid me in his tabernacle: he sheltered me in the secret of his tabernacle; he set me up on a rock.

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

Wouldest thou be angry with us for ever? or wilt thou continue thy wrath from generation to generation?

For, behold, I was conceived in iniquities, and in sins did my mother conceive me.

And ye shall appoint for the possession of the city five thousand in breadth, and in length twenty-five thousand: after the manner of the first-fruits of the holy portion, they shall be for all the house of Israel.

Sing to the Lord with a harp, with a harp, and the voice of a psalm.

And I said, O Lord, thou that art supreme Lord, behold, I know not how to speak, for I am a child.

And they cast him into the dungeon of Melchias the king's son, which was in the court of the prison; and they let him down into the pit: and there was no water in the pit, but mire: and he was in the mire.

so thou shalt read in this roll in the ears of the people in the house of the Lord, on the fast day; and in the ears of all Juda that come out of their cities, thou shalt read to them.

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

And ye shall keep and do them: for this is your wisdom and understanding before all nations, as many as shall hear all these ordinances; and they shall say, Behold, this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

And thou hast taken security of thy brethren for nothing, and hast taken away the clothing of the naked.

And on the day of the new moon a calf without blemish, and six lambs, and there shall be a ram without blemish;

And from the borders of Ephraim, from the eastern parts to the west coasts, for Ruben, one.

Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the stammerers shall speak plainly; for water has burst forth in the desert, and a channel of water in a thirsty land.

What ailed thee, O sea, that thou fleddest? and thou Jordan, that thou wast turned back?

And I stood, and behold there was a voice out of the house of one speaking to me, and a man stood near me,

But they said, We will on no account drink wine, for our father Jonadab the son of Rechab commanded us, saying, Ye shall on no account drink wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever:

We utterly destroyed them as we dealt with Seon the king of Esebon, so we utterly destroyed every city in order, and the women and the children,

Draw near to him, and be enlightened: and your faces shall not by any means be ashamed.

And thou shalt say to the provoking house, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; Let it suffice you to have committed all your iniquities, O house of Israel!

And Jeremias spoke to king Sedekias all these words in Jerusalem.

ignorantly as it were in the entrance above;

The righteous shall chasten me with mercy, and reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner anoint my head: for yet shall my prayer also be in their pleasures.

Mine enemies have spoken evil against me, saying, When shall he die, and his name perish?

A voice of a cry from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord rendering recompence to his adversaries.

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.

I will send my wrath against a sinful nation, and I will charge my people to take plunder and spoil, and to trample the cities, and to make them dust.

he will not by any means save alive the ungodly: and he will grant the judgment of the poor.

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

But Joshua the son of Naue, and Chaleb the son of Jephonne, of the number of them that spied out the land, rent their garments,

Nevertheless do thou, my soul, be subjected to God; for of him is my patient hope.

Buy food of them for money and eat, and ye shall receive water of them by measure for money, and drink.

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

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 child is born to us, and a son is given to us, whose government is upon his shoulder: and his name is called the Messenger of great counsel: for I will bring peace upon the princes, and health to him.

Because of the misery of the poor, and because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord, I will set them in safety; I will speak to them thereof openly.

Behold, I bring upon her healing and cure, and I will show myself to them, and will heal her, and make both peace and security.

But alas! man is corruption, and the son of man a worm.

Who is as the Lord our God? who dwells in the high places,

Behold, it is written before me: I will not be silent until I have recompensed into their bosom,

Blessed is the man whose help is of thee, O Lord; in his heart he has purposed to go up

The proud have hid a snare for me, and have stretched out ropes for snares for my feet; they set a stumbling-block for me near the path. Pause.

I have hated the assembly of wicked doers; and will not sit with ungodly men.

For thou, o God, hast heard my prayers; thou hast given an inheritance to them that fear thy name.

and we are all become as unclean, and all our righteousness as a filthy rag: and we have fallen as leaves because of our iniquities; thus the wind shall carry us away.

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

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.

They shall be delivered up to the law: our salvation is our treasure: there are wisdom and knowledge and piety toward the Lord; these are the treasures of righteousness.

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

The Lord your God spoke to us in Choreb, saying, Let it suffice you to have dwelt so long in this mountain.

The good man is he that pities and lends: he will direct his affairs with judgment.

and their posts five, and the rings; and they gilded their chapiters and their clasps with gold, and they had five sockets of brass.

Of the tribe of Symeon, Saphat the son of Suri.

This is the thing which the Lord has appointed the daughters of Salpaad, saying, Let them marry where they please, only let them marry men of their father's tribe.

And I trampled them in mine anger, and brought down their blood to the earth.

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.

Because this people chooses not the water of Siloam that goes softly, but wills to have Rassin, and the son of Romelias to be king over you;

In the sun he has set his tabernacle; and he comes forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber: he will exult as a giant to run his course.

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 all the gods of the heathen are devils: but the Lord made the heavens.

Take the tribe of Levi, and thou shalt set them before Aaron the priest, and they shall minister to him,

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 he said to them, Hear my words: If there should be of you a prophet to the Lord, I will be made known to him in a vision, and in sleep will I speak to him.

And ye shall give the cities to the Levites, the six cities of refuge which ye shall give for the slayer to flee thither, and in addition to these, forty-two cities.

And on thy walls, O Jerusalem, have I set watchmen all day and all night, who shall never cease making mention of the Lord.

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:

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.

The mountains melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is glutted with fat, with the blood of goats and lambs, and with the fat of goats and rams: for the Lord has a sacrifice in Bosor, and a great slaughter in Idumea.

They are not in the troubles of other men; and they shall not be scourged with other men.

And ye shall have your border on the west, the great sea shall be the boundary: this shall be to you the border on the west.

But hear ye the reasoning of my mouth, and attend to the judgment of my lips.

O Lord my God, thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, and in thy thoughts there is none who shall be likened to thee: I declared and spoke of them: they exceeded number.

That thy beloved ones may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.

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.

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.

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.

For they have taken counsel together with one consent: they have made a confederacy against thee;

We will go up against Judea, and having conferred with them we will turn them away to our side, and we will make the son of Tabeel king of it;

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.

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.

For the sea is his, and he made it: and is hands formed the dry land.

But now our soul is dried up; our eyes turn to nothing but to the manna.

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