Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

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

I the Lord God have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will strengthen thee: and I have given thee for the covenant of a race, for a light of the Gentiles:

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

He gives snow like wool: he scatters the mist like ashes.

and they departed from Socchoth and encamped in Buthan, which is a part of the wilderness.

For thus saith the Lord, Hew down her trees, array a numerous force against Jerusalem. O false city; there is all oppression in her.

Remember his wonderful works that he has done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;

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

every one judging for his neighbor and that to assist his brother: and one will say,

And Ismael went out to meet them; and they went on and wept: and he said to them, Come in to Godolias.

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

commanding the snow, Be thou upon the earth, and the stormy rain, and the storm of the showers of his might.

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

Therefore has a lion out of the forest smitten them, and a wolf has destroyed them even to their houses, and a leopard has watched against their cities: all that go forth from them shall be hunted: for they have multiplied their ungodliness, they have strengthened themselves in their revoltings.

He loves mercy and judgment; the earth is full the mercy of the Lord.

His forces that were numbered, were fifty-four thousand and four hundred.

They saw, and so they wondered: they were troubled, they were moved.

We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud. I have cut off his pride: thy prophecy shall not be thus, no not thus.

And one said to the man clothed in linen, who was over the water of the river, When will be the end of the wonders which thou has mentioned?

Great is our Lord, and great is his strength; and his understanding is infinite.

And Moses said to the sons of Gad and the sons of Ruben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?

Wherefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes.

Blessed is the man who shall satisfy his desire with them: they shall not be ashamed when they shall speak to their enemies in the gates.

And he came to Godolias to Massepha, and dwelt in the midst of his people that was left in the land.

Behold, thou hast made my days old; and my existence is as nothing before thee: nay, every man living is altogether vanity. Pause.

Who establishes the earth on her sure foundation: it shall not be moved for ever.

Yea, our soul would have gone under the overwhelming water.

And ye shall sound a second alarm, and the camps pitched southward shall move; and ye shall sound a third alarm, and the camps pitched westward shall move forward; and ye shall sound a fourth alarm, and they that encamp toward the north shall move forward: they shall sound an alarm at their departure.

I called on the Lord out of affliction: and he hearkened to me, so as to bring me into a wide place.

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 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

The water of Nemerim shall be desolate, and the grass thereof shall fail: for there shall be no green grass.

that thou hast enquired into mine iniquity, and searched out my sins?

Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art God my Saviour: and I have waited on thee all the day.

And the Lord said to me in the days of Josias the king, Hast thou seen what things the house of Israel has done to me? they have gone on every high mountain, and under every shady tree, and have committed fornication there.

Behold, the days come, when they shall take all the things that are in thine house, and all that thy fathers have gathered until this day, shall go to Babylon; and they shall not leave anything at all: and God hath said,

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 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.

Who shakes the earth under heaven from its foundations, and its pillars totter.

And Moses sent them away a thousand of every tribe with their forces, and Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest: and the holy instruments, and the signal trumpets were in their hands.

I acknowledged my sin, and hid not mine iniquity: I said, I will confess mine iniquity to the Lord against myself; and thou forgavest the ungodliness of my heart. Pause.

God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with a sound of a trumpet.

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 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.

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

Having smitten a nation in wrath, with an incurable plague, smiting a nation with a wrathful plague, which spared them not, he rested in quiet.

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?

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

If thou art pure and true, he will hearken to thy supplication, and will restore to thee the habitation of righteousness.

For there are set thrones for judgment, even thrones for the house of David.

although his gifts should go up to heaven, and his sacrifice reach the clouds.

And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians: and I will defend this city.

And there came men who were unclean by reason of a dead body, and they were not able to keep the passover on that day; and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.

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.

But if her father straitly forbid her in the day in which he shall hear all her vows and her obligations, which she has contracted upon her soul, they shall not stand; and the Lord shall hold her guiltless, because her father forbade her.

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

And my life is lighter than a word, and has perished in vain hope.

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.

who satisfies thy desire with good things: so that thy youth shall be renewed like that of the eagle.

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.

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

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

The Lord shall keep thee: the Lord is thy shelter upon thy right hand.

Gather up your wares and flee to Sion: hasten, stay not: for I will bring evils from the north, and great destruction.

Blessed is he whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

My bruises have become noisome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.

Shall bread be eaten without salt? or again, is there taste in empty words?

Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged; I have tabernacled among the tents of Kedar.

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

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

Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near, and destruction from God shall arrive.

For labour cannot by any means come out of the earth, nor shall trouble spring out of the mountains:

The heavens shall declare thy wonders, O Lord; and thy truth in the assembly of the saints.

And Esaias said to them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the Lord, Be not thou afraid at the words which thou hast heard, wherewith the ambassadors of the king of the Assyrians have reproached 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:

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.

I considered the days of old, and remembered ancient years.

Beside the whole-burnt-offerings for the new moon, and their meat-offerings, and their drink-offerings, and their perpetual whole-burnt-offering; and their meat-offerings and their drink-offerings according to their ordinance for a sweet-smelling savour to the Lord.

Exalt and rejoice, ye that dwell in Sion: for the Holy One of Israel is exalted in the midst of her.

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

Is not thy fear founded in folly, thy hope also, and the mischief of thy way?

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

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

God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her with his countenance.

And thou shalt set it before the veil that is over the ark of the testimonies, wherein I will make myself known to thee from thence.

And they shall speak of the glorious majesty of thy holiness, and recount thy wonders.

Take the Levites out of the midst of the children of Israel, and thou shalt purify them.

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.

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.

It is a perpetual whole-burnt-offering, a sacrifice offered in the mount of Sina for a sweet-smelling savour to the Lord.

let that day and night be cursed, let darkness carry them away; let it not come into the days of the year, neither let it be numbered with the days of the months.

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

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.

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

And the Lord said to the devil, Behold, I deliver him up to thee; only save his life.

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.

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.

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