Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

For I have suffered reproach for thy sake; shame has covered my face.

In God is my salvation and my glory: he is the God of my help, and my hope is in God.

and went in after the Israelitish man into the chamber, and pierced them both through, both the Israelitish man, and the woman through her womb; and the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

For my soul is filled with mockings; and there is no health in my flesh.

And hide them together in the earth; and fill their faces with shame.

Their seed is according to their desire, and their children are in their sight.

O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou wentest through the wilderness; Pause:

overshadowing the propitiatory with their wings.

And thou shalt fasten them for a sign upon thy hand, and it shall be immoveable before thine eyes.

but there is a spirit in mortals; and the inspiration of the Almighty is that which teaches.

Or will ye draw back? nay do, ye yourselves be judges.

And now what is my expectation? is it not the Lord? and my ground of hope is with thee. Pause.

Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? and whither shall I flee from my presence?

For what is the hope of the ungodly, that he holds to it? will he indeed trust in the Lord and be saved?

and their posts twenty, and their sockets twenty;

He spoke to them in a pillar of cloud; they kept his testimonies, and the ordinances which he gave them.

They have burnt thy sanctuary with fire to the ground; they have profaned the habitation of thy name.

He shall rain upon sinners snares, fire, and brimstone, and a stormy blast shall be the portion of their cup.

And the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him; and if he stand and say, I will not take her:

For the king trusts in the Lord, and through the mercy of the Highest he shall not be moved.

The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and all the old men stood up.

The eye of him that sees me shall not see me again: thine eyes are upon me, and I am no more.

The Lord send upon thee his blessing in thy barns, and on all on which thou shalt put thine hand, in the land which the Lord thy God gives thee.

But because the Lord loved you, and as keeping the oath which he sware to your fathers, the Lord brought you out with a strong hand, and the Lord redeemed thee from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharao king of Egypt.

God led him out of Egypt; he has as it were the glory of a unicorn: he shall consume the nations of his enemies, and he shall drain their marrow, and with his darts he shall shoot through the enemy.

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my sins of ignorance: remember me according to thy mercy, for thy goodness' sake, O Lord.

Then I said, Behold, I come: in the volume of the book it is written concerning me,

Arise, Lord; deliver me, my God: for thou hast smitten all who were without cause mine enemies; thou hast broken the teeth of sinners.

He made known his ways to Moses, his will to the children of Israel.

sheep and all oxen, yea and the cattle of the field;

The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our helper. Pause.

to execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments among the peoples;

He shall drink of the brook in the way; therefore shall he lift up the head.

At that time the Lord separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand near before the Lord, to minister and bless in his name to this day.

O Lord God, the strength of my salvation; thou hast screened my head in the day of battle.

And Moses prayed to the Lord for the people; and the Lord said to Moses, Make thee a serpent, and put it on a signal-staff; and it shall come to pass that whenever a serpent shall bite a man, every one so bitten that looks upon it shall live.

I am fenced round about, and can by no means escape: he has set darkness before my face.

How can I curse whom the Lord curses not? or how can I devote whom God devotes not?

In his days shall righteousness spring up; and abundance of peace till the moon be removed.

And the Lord brought us out of Egypt himself with his great strength, and his mighty hand, and his high arm, and with great visions, and with signs, and with wonders.

but the Lord endures for ever: he has prepared his throne for judgment.

They are sons of fools and vile men, whose name and glory are quenched from off the earth.

Thou art terrible; and who shall withstand thee, because of thine anger?

Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity: therefore God, thy God, has anointed thee with the oil of gladness beyond thy fellows.

to hear the voice of praise, and to declare all thy wonderful works.

then let me sow, and let others eat; and let me be uprooted on the earth.

He shall send out his word, and melt them: he shall blow with his wind, and the waters shall flow.

And he said to them, Tarry here the night, and I will answer you the things which the Lord shall say to me; and the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.

All my enemies whispered against me; against me they devised my hurt.

Praise the Lord from the earth, ye serpents, and all deeps.

And he took a potsherd to scrape away the discharge, and sat upon a dung-heap outside the city.

Bring to the Lord, ye families of the Gentiles, bring to the Lord glory and honour.

Hear, O Lord, my voice which I have uttered aloud: pity me, and hearken to me.

And thou shalt write upon the stones all this law very plainly.

Deep calls to deep at the voice of thy cataracts: all thy billows and thy waves have gone over me.

They are wet with the drops of the mountains: they have embraced the rock, because they had no shelter.

And the land is filled with abominations, even the works of their hands; and they have worshipped the works which their fingers made.

And the people went through the field, and gathered, and ground it in the mill, or pounded it in a mortar, and baked it in a pan, and made cakes of it; and the sweetness of it was as the taste of wafer made with oil.

Six days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day is a holiday, a feast to the Lord thy God: thou shalt not do in it any work, save what must be done by any one.

Shew the marvels of thy mercies, thou that savest them that hope in thee.

At thy rebuke they shall flee; at the voice of thy thunder they shall be alarmed.

declaring the ordinance of the Lord: the Lord said to me, Thou art my Son, to-day have I begotten thee.

Now then take seven bullocks, and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and he shall offer a burnt-offering for you. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will only accept him: for but his sake, I would have destroyed you, for ye have not spoken the truth against my servant 18.

He will survey the mountains as his pasture, and he seeks after every green thing.

And Moses said to them, stand there, and I will hear what charge the Lord will give concerning you.

Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be well pleased no more?

and God shall be exalted, their wounds were caused by the weapon of the foolish children,

And they departed from before Iroth, and crossed the middle of the sea into the wilderness; and they went a journey of three days through the wilderness, and encamped in Picriae.

Like a dream that has fled away, he shall not be found; and he has fled like a vision of the night.

And every wise one among those that wrought made the robes of the holy places, which belong to Aaron the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.

Let us enter into his tabernacles: let us worship at the place where his feet stood.

And what manner of nation is so great, which has righteous ordinances and judgments according to all this law, which I set before you this day?

And they shall put upon it a scarlet cloth, and they shall cover it with a blue covering of skin, and they shall put the staves into it.

He shall endure for ever before God: which of them will seek out his mercy and truth?

As a lump of earth is crushed upon the ground, our bones have been scattered by the mouth of the grave.

binding water in his clouds, and the cloud is not rent under it.

For God is the judge; he puts down one, and raises up another.

In the day of my trouble I cried to thee: for thou didst hear me.

And we smote them and took their land, and I gave it for an inheritance to Ruben and Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasse.

And thou hast accepted the persons of some; and thou hast established those that were already settled on the earth.

I will give thee thanks with uprightness of heart, when I have learnt the judgments of thy righteousness.

And if a matter shall be too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, and between cause and cause, and between stroke and stroke, and between contradiction and contradiction, matters of judgment in your cities;

When he is judged, let him go forth condemned: and let his prayer become sin.

Galaad is mine, and Manasse is mine; and Ephraim is the strength of my head;

And the children of Israel wept for Moses in Araboth of Moab at Jordan near Jericho thirty days; and the days of the sad mourning for Moses were completed.

The Lord is my helper and my defender; my heart has hoped in him, and I am helped: my flesh has revived, and willingly will I give praise to him.

Thy hands have formed me and made me; afterwards thou didst change thy mind, and smite me.

Thy wrath has pressed heavily upon me, and thou hast brought upon me all thy billows. Pause.

who by his power is Lord over the age, his eyes look upon the nations; let not them that provoke him be exalted in themselves. Pause.

The works of his hands are truth and judgment: all his commandments are sure:

Behold, God has delivered the land before you; go in and inherit the land, which I sware to your fathers, Abraam, and Isaac, and Jacob, to give it to them and to their seed after them.

I will speak to him mouth to mouth apparently, and not in dark speeches; and he has seen the glory of the Lord; and why were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?

Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord, and will call upon the Lord, the sovereign of all;

I have become like an owl in a ruined house. I have watched, and am become as a sparrow dwelling alone on a roof.

There is a voice of the Lord who divides a flame of fire.

Tell the earth, if it may speak to thee: and the fishes of the sea shall explain to thee.

That they might set their hope on God, and not forget the works of God, but diligently seek his commandments.

But now he has made me weary, and a worn-out fool; and thou hast laid hold of me.

But the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus, Rasim; and yet within sixty and five years the kingdom of Ephraim shall cease from being a people.

Did not your fathers thus, when I sent them from Cades Barne to spy out the land?