Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

Remember the days of old, consider the years for past ages: ask thy father, and he shall relate to thee, thine elders, and they shall tell thee.

These are the families of Ruben; and their numbering was forty-three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.

And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noon-day.

Thy righteousness is as the mountains of God, thy judgments are as a great deep: O Lord, thou wilt preserve men and beasts.

The Lord lifts up the meek; but brings sinners down to the ground.

who made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all things in them: who keeps truth for ever:

In the morning let it flower, and pass away: in the evening let it droop, let it be withered and dried up.

And they shall speak of the power of thy terrible acts; and recount thy greatness.

And thou shalt speak to the children of Israel, saying,

Let their way be dark and slippery, and an angel of the Lord persecuting them.

And its drink-offering, the fourth part of a hin to each lamb; in the holy place shalt thou pour strong drink as a drink-offering to the Lord.

This poor man cried, and the Lord hearkened to him, and delivered him out of all his afflictions.

And on the tenth of this month there shall be to you a holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls, and ye shall do no work.

By the word of the Lord the heavens were established; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

Therefore shall every holy one pray to thee in a fit time: only in the deluge of many waters they shall not come nigh to him.

Therefore every hand shall become powerless, and every soul of man shall be dismayed.

nor of the evil thing that walks in darkness; nor of calamity, and the evil spirit at noon-day.

And this is the blessing of Juda; Hear, Lord, the voice of Juda, and do thou visit his people: his hands shall contend for him, and thou shalt be a help from his enemies.

But if she should be indeed married, and her vows be upon her according to the utterance of her lips, the obligations which she has contracted upon her soul;

Thou has hated them that idly persist in vanities: but I have hoped in the Lord.

And they set themselves in array against Madian, as the Lord commanded Moses; and they slew every male.

And I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved.

Send lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: send forth thine arrows, and thou shalt discomfit them.

I spread forth my hands to thee; my soul thirsts for thee, as a dry land. Pause.

A foolish man will not know, and a senseless man will not understand this.

Attend to my supplication, for I am brought very low; deliver me from them that persecute me; for they are stronger than I.

And why do ye pervert the minds of the children of Israel, that they should not cross over into the land, which the Lord gives them?

And he will beat them small, even Libanus itself, like a calf; and the beloved one is as a young unicorn.

Blessed be the Lord, for he has hearkened to the voice of my petition.

Their mighty ones have been swallowed up near the rock: they shall hear my words, for they are sweet.

And they departed from Buthan and encamped at the mouth of Iroth, which is opposite Beel-sepphon, and encamped opposite Magdol.

And now, behold, he has lifted up mine head over mine enemies: I went round and offered in his tabernacle the sacrifice of joy; I will sing even sing psalms to the Lord.

For when he shall seem to be now established, then he shall utterly perish: and they that knew him shall say, Where is he?

And they had materials sufficient for making the furniture, and they left some besides.

I will wash my hands in innocency, and compass thine altar, O Lord:

I said to the Lord, Thou art my God; hearken, O Lord, to the voice of my supplication.

Remember thy compassions, O Lord, and thy mercies, for they are from everlasting.

The knowledge of thee is too wonderful for me; it is very difficult, I cannot attain to it.

And this shall be your northern border; from the great sea ye shall measure to yourselves, by the side of the mountain.

ye seed of Abraam, his servants, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek the face of the God of Jacob. Pause.

Thy mercy also shall follow me all the days of my life: and my dwelling shall be in the house of the Lord for a very long time.

For the Lord is high, and yet regards the lowly; and he knows high things from afar off.

Ye shall give to the Levites in all forty-eight cities, them and their suburbs.

That thy beloved ones may be delivered, save with thy right hand, and hear me. God has spoken in his sanctuary;

But I am a worm, and not a man; a reproach of men, and scorn of the people.

yet man is born to labour, and even so the vulture's young seek the high places.

So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel go about from tribe to tribe, for the children of Israel shall steadfastly continue each in the inheritance of his family's tribe.

Turn ye and depart and enter into the mountain of the Amorites, and go to all that dwell near about Araba, to the mountain and the plain and to the south, and the land of the Chananites near the sea, and Antilibanus, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

For thou wilt give him a blessing for ever and ever: thou wilt gladden him with joy with thy countenance.

May my tongue cleave to my throat, if I do not remember thee; if I do not prefer Jerusalem as the chief of my joy.

They have slain the widow and fatherless, and murdered the stranger.

Now I know that the Lord has saved his Christ: he shall hear him from his holy heaven: the salvation of his right hand is mighty.

His going forth is from the extremity of heaven, and his circuit to the other end of heaven: and no one shall be hidden from his heat.

And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old at his death; his eyes were not dimmed, nor were his natural powers destroyed.

For the Lord our God has blessed thee in every work of thy hands. Consider how thou wentest through that great and terrible wilderness: behold, the Lord thy God has been with thee forty years; thou didst not lack any thing.

Set thou a sinner against him; and let the devil stand at his right hand.

And when I was afflicted I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of this holy temple, and my cry shall enter before him, even into his ears.

To him who established the earth on the waters; for his mercy endures for ever.

and all the cattle; and we took for a prey to ourselves the spoil of the cities.

With trumpets of metal, and the sound of a trumpet of horn make a joyful noise to the Lord before the king.

I have cried, for thou heardest me, O God: incline thine ear to me, and hearken to my words.

For my wrath cannot cease; for I perceive my food as the smell of a lion to be loathsome.

For what manner of nation is so great, which has God so near to them as the Lord our God is in all things in whatsoever we may call upon him?

The lines have fallen to me in the best places, yea, I have a most excellent heritage.

Come, let us worship and fall down before him; and weep before the Lord that made us.

Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his hope.

all that the Lord willed, he did in heaven, and on the earth, in the sea, and in all deeps.

Thou shalt have no other gods before my face.

I will sing to the Lord who has dealt bountifully with me, and I will sing psalms to the name of the Lord most high.

And the Lord said to the devil, Whence art thou come? And the devil answered the Lord, and said, I am come from compassing the earth, and walking up and down in the world.

and rams' skins dyed red, and skins dyed blue, and incorruptible wood,

The oracles of the Lord are pure oracles; as silver tried in the fire, proved in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect to all thy commandments.

And thou shalt teach them to thy children, and thou shalt speak of them sitting in the house, and walking by the way, and lying down, and rising up.

The Lord tries the righteous and the ungodly: and he that loves unrighteousness hates his own soul.

Neither hast thou given water to the thirsty to drink, but hast taken away the morsel of the hungry.

It was not because ye are more numerous than all other nations that the Lord preferred you, and the Lord made choice of you: for ye are fewer in number than all other nations.

The swords of the enemy have failed utterly; and thou hast destroyed cities: their memorial has been destroyed with a noise,

and thou hast set him over the works of thy hands: thou hast put all things under his feet:

Behold, I laugh at reproach; I will not speak: or I will cry out, but there is nowhere judgment.

For the Lord thy God will bring thee into a good and extensive land, where there are torrents of waters, and fountains of deep places issuing through the plains and through the mountains:

They have caused many naked to sleep without clothes, and they have taken away the covering of their body.

Arise, O Lord, in thy wrath; be exalted in the utmost boundaries of mine enemies: awake, O Lord my God, according to the decree which thou didst command.

Remember, forget not, how much thou provokedst the Lord thy God in the wilderness: from the day that ye came forth out of Egypt, even till ye came into this place, ye continued to be disobedient toward the Lord.

For thou knowest that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that can deliver out of thy hands?

I am wearied with my groaning; I shall wash my bed every night; I shall water my couch with tears.

And the ox and bear shall feed together; and their young shall be together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

Thence they departed to Gadgad; and from Gadgad to Etebatha, a land wherein are torrents of water.

Thou wilt destroy all that speak falsehood: the Lord abhors the bloody and deceitful man.

for your eyes have seen all the mighty works of the Lord, which he wrought among you to-day.

Many say, Who will shew us good things? the light of thy countenance, O Lord, has been manifested towards us.

Wilt thou find out the traces of the Lord? or hast thou come to the end of that which the Almighty has made?

I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, who beset me round about.

But I have been made king by him on Sion his holy mountain,

And ye shall eat there before the Lord your God, and ye shall rejoice in all the things on which ye shall lay your hand, ye and your houses, as the Lord your God has blessed you.

And Aaron shall burn upon it fine compound incense every morning; whensoever he trims the lamps he shall burn incense upon it.

So the devil went out from the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from his feet to his head.

For the Lord knows the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish.