Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

Behold, we heard of it in Ephratha; we found it in the fields of the wood.

And it came to pass after the Lord had spoken all these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Thaemanite, Thou hast sinned, and thy two friends: for ye have not said anything true before me, as my servant Job has.

of the gods of the nations that are round about you, who are near thee or at a distance from thee, from one end of the earth to the other;

Who commands the sun, and it rises not; and he seals up the stars.

And these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, and of those that divide the hoofs, and make distinct claws; the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit; because they chew the cud, and do not divide the hoof, these are unclean to you.

One part cleaves fast to another, and the air cannot come between them.

He shall judge among the nations, he shall fill up the number of corpses, he shall crush the heads of many on the earth.

And if there shall be in the midst of thee a poor man of thy brethren in one of thy cities in the land, which the Lord thy God gives thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, neither shalt thou by any means close up thine hand from thy brother who is in want.

Bring down also the proud man; and consume at once the ungodly.

And thou shalt boil and roast and eat it in the place, which the Lord thy God shall choose; and thou shalt return in the morning, and go to thy house.

I have become like a pelican of the wilderness;

He laughs to scorn the multitude of the city, and hears not the chiding of the tax-gatherer.

And the hand of the witnesses shall be upon him among the first to put him to death, and the hand of the people at the last; so shalt thou remove the evil one from among yourselves.

He has declared to his people the power of his works, to give them the inheritance of the heathen.

But ask now the beasts, if they may speak to thee; and the birds of the air, if they may declare to thee.

But let that night be pain, and let not mirth come upon it, nor joy.

he shall minister to the name of the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Levites, who stand there present before the Lord thy God.

When the stars were made, all my angels praised me with a loud voice.

The heavens have declared his righteousness, and all the people have seen his glory.

He seals up the hand of every man, that every man may know his own weakness.

And what man is he that has betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

For he shall not be moved for ever; the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.

Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, and let his counsel deceive him.

He will not turn away his eyes from the righteous, but they shall be with kings on the throne: and he will establish them in triumph, and they shall be exalted.

and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen it.

Though then thy beginning should be small, yet thy end should be unspeakably great.

And suppose thou art righteous, what wilt thou give him? or what shall he receive of thy hand?

Thou shalt by all means let the mother go, but thou shalt take the young to thyself; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest live long.

and yet looks upon the low things in heaven, and on the earth:

Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, because he is thy brother; thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.

What man is as Job, drinking scorning like water?

Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams, and ye hills, like lambs?

For my eyes are dimmed through pain; I have been grievously beset by all.

And if any one should have recently taken a wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall any thing be laid upon him; he shall be free in his house; for one year he shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

My fear shall not terrify thee, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee.

Do ye not speak before the Lord, and utter deceit before him?

And I said, It is not time that speaks, though in many years men know wisdom:

And if the man should not be willing to take his brother's wife, then shall the woman go up to the gate to the elders, and she shall say, My husband's brother will not raise up the name of his brother in Israel, my husband's brother has refused.

What! art thou the first man that was born? or wert thou established before the hills?

and we cried to the Lord our God, and the Lord heard our voice, and saw our humiliation, and our labour, and our affliction.

if my foot has turned aside out of the way, or if mine heart has followed mine eye, and if too I have touched gifts with my hands;

And thou shalt there offer a peace-offering; and thou shalt eat and be filled, and rejoice before the Lord thy God.

they have ears, but they cannot hear; they have noses, but they cannot smell;

They will cry out among the rustling bushes.

The Lord deliver thine enemies that withstand thee utterly broken before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and they shall flee seven ways from before thee.

Thanksgiving and beauty are before him: holiness and majesty are in his sanctuary.

When I went forth early in the city, and the seat was placed for me in the streets.

Remember then that my life is breath, and mine eye shalt not yet again see good.

There is a path, the fowl has not known it, neither has the eye of the vulture seen it:

Remember then who has perished, being pure? or when were the true-hearted utterly destroyed?

Let them be as the grass of the house-tops, which withers before it is plucked up.

And mayest thou see thy children's children. Peace be upon Israel.

Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us for a prey to their teeth.

the valley of weeping, to the place which he has appointed, for there the law-giver will grant blessings.

O God, thou wilt turn and quicken us; and thy people shall rejoice in thee.

even the tents of the Idumeans, and the Ismaelites; Moab, and the Agarenes;

His government shall be great, and of his peace there is no end: it shall be upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to support it with judgment and with righteousness, from henceforth and forever. The seal of the Lord of hosts shall perform this.

And they that encamp next shall be of the tribe of Zabulon, and the prince of the sons of Zabulon shall be Eliab the son of Chaelon.

I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you children of the Most High.

He removed his back from burdens: his hands slaved in making the baskets.

Of Juda, Naasson the son of Aminadab.

and shall keep his charges, and the charges of the children of Israel, before the tabernacle of witness, to do the works of the tabernacle.

Thou has made us a strife to our neighbours; and our enemies have mocked at us.

We have sinned with our fathers, we have transgressed, we have done unrighteously.

therefore, behold, the Lord brings up upon you the water of the river, strong and abundant, even the king of the Assyrians, and his glory: and he shall come up over every valley of yours, and shall walk over every wall of yours:

And ye came as far as this place; and there came forth Seon king of Esebon, and Og king of Basan, to meet us in war.

that another generation might know, even the sons which should be born; and they should arise and declare them to their children.

Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms which have not called upon thy name.

And they shall put on the table set forth for shew-bread a cloth all of purple, and the dishes, and the censers, and the cups, and the vessels with which one offers drink-offerings; and the continual loaves shall be upon it.

And I meditated; I communed with my heart by night, and diligently searched my spirit, saying,

At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, the riders on horses slumbered.

thus saith the Lord of hosts, This counsel shall not abide, nor come to pass.

But he meant not thus, neither did he devise thus in his soul: but his mind shall change, and that to destroy nations not a few.

and he touched my mouth, and said, Behold, this has touched thy lips, and will take away thine iniquities, and will purge off thy sins.

that person shall confess the sin which he has committed, and shall make satisfaction for his trespass: he shall pay the principal, and shall add to it the fifth part, and shall make restoration to him against whom he has trespassed.

For good comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert mountains.

they cut down its doors at once with axes as in a wood of trees; they have broken it down with hatchet and stone cutter.

Give ear to my prayer, o Lord; and attend to the voice of my supplication.

to his father or his mother, or to his brother or his sister; he shall not defile himself for them, when they have died, because the vow of God is upon him on his head.

Therefore pride has possessed them; they have clothed themselves with their injustice and ungodliness.

Nay rather, but let mine enemies be as the overthrow of the ungodly, and they that rise up against me, as the destruction of transgressors.

He shall come down as rain upon a fleece; and as drops falling upon the earth.

And he gave two waggons and four oxen to the sons of Gedson, according to their ministrations.

For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord Almighty.

It is he that executes judgment in the height above, and he has established justice on the earth:

Therefore, behold, I will raise them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and I will return your recompense on your own heads.

They bear it upon the shoulder, and go; and if they put it upon its place, it remains, it cannot move: and whosoever shall cry to it, it cannot hear; it cannot save him from trouble.

For suddenly there shall arise up those that bite him, and they that plot against thee shall awake, and thou shalt be a plunder to them.

He has builded against me, and I cannot come forth: he has made my brazen chain heavy.

and saidst, I shall be a princess for ever: thou didst not perceive these things in thine heart, nor didst thou remember the latter end.

He has ruined my vine, and utterly broken my fig-trees: he has utterly searched my vine, and cast it down; he has peeled its branches.

Now they come to pass, and not formerly: and thou heardest not of them in former days: say not thou, Yea, I know them.

But if ye say, We trust in the Lord our God;

His branches shall spread, and he shall be as a fruitful olive, and his smell shall be as the smell of Libanus.

Thus saith the Lord that delivered thee, the God of Israel, Sanctify him that despises his life, him that is abhorred by the nations that are the servants of princes: kings shall behold him, and princes shall arise, and shall worship him, for the Lord's sake: for the Holy One of Israel is faithful, and I have chosen thee.

And I will turn the captivity of Juda, and the captivity of Israel, and will build them, even as before.

And I will be to them as a panther, and as a leopard.

As for Chanaan, in his hand is a balance of unrighteousness: he has loved to tyrannize.

And the dry land shall become pools, and a fountain of water shall be poured into the thirsty land; there shall there be a joy of birds, ready habitations and marshes.

but the Lord God became my helper; therefore I was not ashamed, but I set my face as a solid rock; and I know that I shall never be ashamed,