Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

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;

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

we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest.

And he shall be as the wild tamarisk in the desert: he shall not see when good comes; but he shall dwell in barren places, and in the wilderness, in a salt land which is not inhabited.

And, behold, a man of the children of Israel came and brought his brother to a Madianitish woman before Moses, and before all the congregation of the children of Israel; and they were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of witness.

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

And each one had four faces, and each one had four wings.

VAU. And the iniquity of the daughter of my people has been increased beyond the iniquities of Sodoma, the city that was overthrown very suddenly, and none laboured against her with their hands.

He has not lent his money on usury, and has not received bribes against the innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved.

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

I remembered the days of old; and I meditated on all thy doings: yea, I meditated on the works of thine hands.

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.

All we as sheep have gone astray; every one has gone astray in his way; and the Lord gave him up for our sins.

Blessed shalt thou be in thy coming in, and blessed shalt thou be in thy going out.

Therefore shall my people know my name in that day, for I am he that speaks: I am present,

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

as shady groves, and as gardens by a river, and as tents which God pitched, and as cedars by the waters.

He has set me in dark places, as them that have long been dead.

Of whole stones shalt thou build an altar to the Lord thy God, and thou shalt offer upon it whole-burnt-offerings to the Lord thy God.

Thou hast rebuked the nations, and the ungodly one has perished; thou hast blotted out their name for ever, even for ever and ever.

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.

He made it to be a testimony in Joseph, when he came forth out of the land of Egypt: he heard a language which he understood not.

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

And the Egyptians afflicted us, and humbled us, and imposed hard tasks on us:

Thou hast turned away from me, saith the Lord, thou wilt go back: therefore I will stretch out my hand, and will destroy thee, and will no more spare them.

But I am poor and needy; O God, help me: thou art my helper and deliverer, O Lord, delay not.

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

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

They shall not bewail them, nor make cuttings for them, and they shall not shave themselves for them:

And it shall come to pass that the child which she shall bear, shall be named by the name of the deceased, and his name shall not be blotted out of Israel.

And he returned to him, and moreover he stood over his whole-burnt-offerings, and all the princes of Moab with him; and the Spirit of God came upon him.

Lift up your eyes to the sky, and look on the earth beneath: for the sky was darkened like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and the inhabitants shall die in like manner: but my righteousness shall not fail.

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

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?

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.

the former husband who sent her away shall not be able to return and take her to himself for a wife, after she has been defiled; because it is an abomination before the Lord thy God, and ye shall not defile the land, which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit.

The wild asses stood by the forests, and snuffed up the wind; their eyes failed, because there was no grass.

HE. Her oppressors are become the head, and her enemies have prospered; for the Lord has afflicted her because of the multitude of her sins: her young children are gone into captivity before the face of the oppressor.

And it came to pass after many days, that the Lord said to me, Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take thence the girdle, which I commanded thee to hide there.

And they shall put on it a cover, even a blue skin, and put on it above a garment all of blue, and shall put the staves through the rings.

And Moses took the waggons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites.

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

on the ninth day of the month, and then the famine was severe in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

Thou shalt not speak peaceably or profitably to them all thy days for ever.

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.

O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my transgressions are not hidden from thee.

And the feet of the meek and lowly shall trample them.

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

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

And if thou shouldest come upon a brood of birds before thy face in the way or upon any tree, or upon the earth, young or eggs, and the mother be brooding on the young or the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young ones.

I gave my back to scourges, and my cheeks to blows; and I turned not away my face from the shame of spitting:

For even thy brethren and the house of thy father, even these have dealt treacherously with thee; and they have cried out, they are gathered together in pursuit of thee; trust not thou in them, though they shall speak fair words to thee.

And there was sent to me one of the seraphs, and he had in his hand a coal, which he had taken off the altar with the tongs:

So mine anger and my wrath dropped upon them, and was kindled in the gates of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they became a desolation and a waste, as at this day.

And now come, curse me this people, for it is stronger than we; if we may be able to smite some of them, and I will cast them out of the land: for I know that whomsoever thou dost bless, they are blessed, and whomsoever thou dost curse, they are cursed.

And thou, Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, draw nigh to visit all the heathen; pity not any that work iniquity. Pause.

Assemble ye his saints to him, those that have engaged in a covenant with him upon sacrifices.

Though he should come on me in his great strength, then he would not threaten me;

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 he said to me, It is a great thing for thee to be called my servant, to establish the tribes of Jacob, and to recover the dispersion of Israel: behold, I have given thee for the covenant of a race, for a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation to the end of the earth.

And the Lord said to me, Read these words in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.

the mighty men, and the women, and the children that were left, and the daughters of the king, and the souls which Nabuzardan had left with Godolias the son of Achicam and Jeremias the prophet, and Baruch the son of Nerias.

And all the elders of that city who draw nigh to the slain man shall wash their hands over the head of the heifer which was slain in the valley;

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

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

Offer the sacrifice of righteousness, and trust in the Lord.

And thou shalt put the altar of burnt-offerings by the doors of the tabernacle of witness, and thou shalt set up the tabernacle round about, and thou shalt hallow all that belongs to it round about.

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

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!

Ye have heard all this, but ye have not known: yet I have made known to thee the new things from henceforth, which are coming to pass, and thou saidst not,

And what man is he that has planted a vineyard, and not been made merry with it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man be made merry with it.

Let them be as dust before the wind, and an angel of the Lord afflicting them.

And the Lord of hosts shall make a feast for all the nations: on this mount they shall drink gladness, they shall drink wine:

And whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will hearken to the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, because we shall hearken to the voice of the Lord our God.

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

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

Lest the avenger of blood pursue after the slayer, because his heart is hot, and overtake him, if the way be too long, and slay him, though there is to this man no sentence of death, because he hated him not in time past.

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

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.

all the days of his vow to the Lord: he shall not come nigh to any dead body,

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

And the Lord sent among the people deadly serpents, and they bit the people, and much people of the children of Israel died.

He shall return evil to mine enemies; utterly destroy them in thy truth.

And if a Levite come from one of the cities of all the children of Israel, where he himself dwells, accordingly as his mind desires, to the place which he shall have chosen,

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.

By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bone has cleaved to my flesh.

which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor heed the charm prepared skillfully by the wise.

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.

He shall die on the testimony of two or three witnesses; a man who is put to death shall not be put to death for one witness.

Therefore a curse shall consume the earth, because the inhabitants thereof have sinned: therefore the dwellers in the earth shall be poor, and few men shall be left.

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

the last and the first: thou hast fashioned me, and laid thine hand upon me.

Him that privily speaks against his neighbour, him have I driven from me: he that is proud in look and insatiable in heart, with him I have not eaten.

But in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, to have his name called there, thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even at the setting of the sun, at the time when thou camest out of Egypt.