Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

When my soul was failing me, I remembered the Lord; and may my prayer come to thee into thy holy temple.

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Thus saith the Lord,

But they did them not.

All the bodies that give light in the sky, shall be darkened over thee, and I will bring darkness upon the earth, saith the Lord God.

So men and cattle were clothed with sackcloths, and cried earnestly to God; and they turned every one from their evil way, and from the iniquity that was in their hands, saying,

Behold, I am against thee, and I will execute judgment in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.

But they revolted from me, and would not hearken to me: they cast not away the abominations of their eyes, and forsook not the devices of Egypt: then I said that I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my wrath upon them in the midst of Egypt.

And he cried out and spoke to me, saying, Behold, these go out to the land of the north, and they have quieted mine anger in the land of the north.

I will make a sign to them, and gather them in; for I will redeem them, and they shall be multiplied according to their number before.

And therefore say, Thus saith the Lord; Because your words are false, and your prophecies are vain, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord.

And she knew not that I gave her her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied silver to her: but she made silver and gold images for Baal.

My inheritance has become to me as a lion in a forest; she has uttered her voice against me; therefore have I hated her.

Death has prevailed and swallowed men up; but again the Lord God has taken away every tear from every face. He has taken away the reproach of his people from all the earth: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.

And destruction shall come upon every city, it shall by no means escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain country shall be completely destroyed, as the Lord has said.

So Rabsaces returned, and found the king of the Assyrians besieging Lobna: for he had heard that he had departed from Lachis.

And thou shalt say to this people, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I have set before you the way of life, and the way of death.

Behold, I bring them from the north, and will gather them from the end of the earth to the feast of the passover: and the people shall beget a great multitude, and they shall return hither.

And I looked, and behold, sinews and flesh grew upon them, and skin came upon them above: but there was not breath in them.

When I say to the sinner, Thou shalt surely die; if thou speak not to warn the wicked from his way, the wicked himself shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

They became as wanton horses: they neighed each one after his neighbour's wife.

And, behold, I have prepared bonds for thee, land thou mayest not turn from thy one side to the other, until the days of thy siege shall be accomplished.

Lament to me more than a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

And we passed by our brethren the children of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, by the way of Araba from Aelon and from Gesion Gaber; and we turned and passed by the way of the desert of Moab.

Thy ungodliness may affect a man who is like to thee; or thy righteousness a son of man.

And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and shalt anoint the tabernacle, and all things in it; and shalt sanctify it, and all its furniture, and it shall be holy.

Who gathers the waters of the sea as in a bottle; who lays up the deeps in treasuries.

I will be exalted, and will divide Sicima, and will measure out the valley of tents.

The Lord has sent death upon Jacob, and it has come upon Israel.

For thou hast saved us from them that afflicted us, and hast put to shame them that hated us.

Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalec; the Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre.

He is the Lord our God; his judgments are in all the earth.

And ye shall bring near whole-burnt-offerings for a sweet-smelling savour to the Lord; burnt-sacrifices to the Lord, one calf of the herd, one ram, seven lambs of a year old; they shall be to you without blemish.

The angel of the Lord will encamp round about them that fear him, and will deliver them.

Thou shalt not make to thyself an image, nor likeness of any thing, whatever things are in the heaven above, and whatever are in the earth beneath, and whatever are in the waters under the earth.

Shew us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation.

and sardine stones, and stones for engraving for the shoulder-piece and full-length robe.

If thou shouldest build a new house, then shalt thou make a parapet to thy house; so thou shalt not bring blood-guiltiness upon thy house, if one should in any wise fall from it.

And we took at that time the land out of the hands of the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond Jordan, extending from the brook of Arnon even unto Aermon.

Or hast thou heard the ordinance of the Lord? or has God used thee as his counsellor? and has wisdom come only to thee?

And as for the cities which ye shall give out of the possession of the children of Israel, from those that have much ye shall give much, and from those that have less ye shall give less: they shall give of their cities to the Levites each one according to his inheritance which they shall inherit.

And the second lamb thou shalt offer toward evening; thou shalt offer it according to its meat-offering and according to its drink-offering for a smell of sweet savour to the Lord.

And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi blossomed, and put forth a bud, and bloomed blossoms and produced almonds.

Woe to them that join house to house, and add field to field, that they may take away something of their neighbor's: will ye dwell alone upon the land?

For without cause they have hid for me their destructive snare: without a cause they have reproached my soul.

Though I should walk in the midst of affliction, thou wilt quicken me; thou hast stretched forth thine hands against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand has saved me.

They shall go from strength to strength: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.

Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be purified: thou shalt wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.

God is glorified in the council of the saints; great and terrible toward all that are round about him.

who troublest the depth of the sea, the sounds of its waves.

If a man die, and have no son, ye shall assign his inheritance to his daughter.

And the congregation of the nations shall compass thee: and for this cause do thou return on high.

They shall utter the memory of the abundance of thy goodness, and shall exult in thy righteousness.

Hear, my people, and I will speak to thee, O Israel: and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.

Heaven is high; and what wilt thou do? and there are deeper things than those in hell; what dost thou know?

All the days of his vow he shall be holy to the Lord.

Some glory in chariots, and some in horses: but we will glory in the name of the Lord our God.

saying, I have not sinned, nor committed ungodliness, nor had fellowship with workers of iniquity, to go with the ungodly.

For we have perished in thine anger, and in thy wrath we have been troubled.

who executes judgment for the wronged: who gives food to the hungry. The Lord looses the fettered ones:

Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains were disturbed, and were shaken, because God was angry with them.

And the Lord said to Aaron, And, behold, I have given you the charge of the first-fruits of all things consecrated to me by the children of Israel; and I have given them to thee as an honour, and to thy sons after thee for a perpetual ordinance.

And an infant shall put his hand on the holes of asps, and on the nest of young asps.

Begin the song with thanksgiving to the Lord; sing praises on the harp to our God:

Lift up your gates, ye princes, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors; and the king of glory shall come in.

A brother does not redeem, shall a man redeem? he shall not give to God a ransom for himself,

The Lord is my helper; and I shall see my desire upon mine enemies.

And he that burns her shall wash his garments, and bathe his body, and shall be unclean till evening.

If sons be born to them, in the third generation they shall enter into the assembly of the Lord.

The dwelling of all within thee is as the dwelling of those that rejoice.

Thou wilt break the ships of Tharsis with a vehement wind.

And four waggons and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari according to their ministrations, by Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judea has fallen, and their tongues have spoken with iniquity, disobedient as they are towards the Lord.

How hast thou multiplied thy mercy, O God! so the children of men shall trust in the shelter of thy wings.

Thou, O Lord, shalt keep us, and shalt preserve us, from this generation, and for ever.

And if they should say to him, Thou alone art ruler;

Submit thyself to the Lord, and supplicate him: fret not thyself because of him that prospers in his way, at the man that does unlawful deeds.

Wonder has seized true men upon this; and let the just rise up against the transgressor.

And the Lord said to him, Hast thou diligently considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a man blameless, true, godly, abstaining from everything evil?

Let peace, I pray, be within thine host, and prosperity in thy palaces.

Accordingly as I have seen men ploughing barren places, and they that sow them will reap sorrows for themselves.

The earth trembled at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;

But I will enter into thine house in the multitude of thy mercy: I will worship in thy fear toward thy holy temple.

For God is king of all the earth: sing praises with understanding.

For if I shall go first, and exist no longer, still what do I know concerning the latter end?

Wherewith the reaper fills not his hand, nor he that makes up the sheaves, his bosom.

And ye shall measure to yourselves the mountain from mount Hor at the entering in to Emath, and the termination of it shall be the coasts of Saradac.

Thou shalt surely open thine hands to him, and shalt lend to him as much as he wants according to his need.

neither have the sons of the proud trodden it, a lion has not passed upon it.

And the priests the sons of Aaron shall sound with the trumpets; and it shall be a perpetual ordinance for you throughout your generations.

And the sons of Phallu were Eliab,

When the Most High divided the nations, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the nations according to the number of the angels of God.

His foot also has been caught in a snare, and let it be entangled in a net.

Thou shalt not take for a pledge the under millstone, nor the upper millstone; for he who does so takes life for a pledge.

a land of wheat and barley, wherein are vines, figs, pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;

Take thy rod, and call the assembly, thou and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye to the rock before them, and it shall give forth its waters; and ye shall bring forth for them water out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their cattle.

they have hands, but they cannot handle; they have feet, but they cannot walk: they cannot speak through their throat.

But thou hast said in mine ears, (I have heard the voice of thy words;) because thou sayest, I am pure, not having sinned;