Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

For it were well if he would thoroughly search you: for though doing all things in your power ye should attach yourselves to him,

I desired to do thy will, O my God, and thy law in the midst of mine heart.

For what knowest thou, that, we know not? or what understandest thou, which we do not also?

When he wrought on the left hand, then I observed it not: his right hand shall encompass me but I shall not see it.

O Lord our God, thou heardest them; O God, thou becamest propitious to them, though thou didst take vengeance on all their devices.

For from the top of the mountains I shall see him, and from the hills I shall observe him: behold, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

the earth quaked, yea, the heavens dropped water at the presence of the God of Sina, at the presence of the God of Israel.

And he brought us into this place, and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Bring to the Lord the glory becoming his name: take offerings, and go into his courts.

If my heart has gone forth after another man's wife, and if I laid wait at her doors;

Fire, hail, snow, ice, stormy wind; the things that perform his word.

They denounced a wicked word against me, saying, Now that he lies, shall he not rise up again?

By day the Lord will command his mercy, and manifest it by night: with me is prayer to the God of my life.

And God came to Balaam, and said to him, Who are these men with thee?

And Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, Be silent and hear, O Israel; this day thou art become a people to the Lord thy God.

Let them acknowledge to the Lord his mercies, and his wonderful works to the children of men.

But now I am their music, and they have me for a by-word.

Will God hear his prayer? or, when distress has come upon him,

And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a signal-staff: and it came to pass that whenever a serpent bit a man, and he looked on the brazen serpent, he lived.

Myrrh, and stacte, and cassia are exhaled from thy garments, and out of the ivory palaces,

I am as a cloud that is cleared away from the sky: for if a man go down to the grave, he shall not come up again:

to bind their kings with fetters, and their nobles with manacles of iron; to execute on them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.

It is better to trust in the Lord than to trust in man.

Come, and behold the works of the Lord, what wonders he has achieved on the earth.

The Lord raise thee up for himself a holy people, as he sware to thy fathers; if thou wilt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and walk in all his ways.

And the great men ceased speaking, and laid their finger on their mouth.

And Moses took his rod which was before the Lord, as the Lord commanded.

But thou hast sent widows away empty, and has afflicted orphans.

He has stretched forth his hand on the sharp rock, and turned up mountains by the roots:

I became strange to my brethren, and a stranger to my mother's children.

Their houses are prosperous, neither have they any where cause for fear, neither is there a scourge from the Lord upon them.

Neither do they that go by say, The blessing of the Lord be upon you: we have blessed you in the name of the Lord.

And he made the set table of pure gold,

God reigns over the nations: God sits upon the throne of his holiness.

As we have heard, so have we also seen, in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God has founded it for ever. Pause.

And a clean man shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up in a clean place outside the camp; and they shall be for the congregation of the children of Israel to keep: it is the water of sprinkling, a purification.

They shall perish by the command of the Lord, and shall be utterly consumed by the breath of his wrath.

then shall he say, Have I not taken the country above Babylon and Chalanes, where the tower was built? and have I not taken Arabia, and Damascus, and Samaria?

or the price of the redemption of his soul, though he labour for ever,

And let this be to you from all the holy things that are consecrated to me, even the burnt-offerings, from all their gifts, and from all their sacrifices, and from every trespass-offering of theirs, and from all their sin-offerings, whatever things they give to me of all their holy things, they shall be thine and thy sons'.

O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee.

I will not reprove thee on account of thy sacrifices; for thy whole-burnt-offerings are before me continually.

Thou shalt cause me to hear gladness and joy: the afflicted bones shall rejoice.

O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: hearken, O God of Jacob. Pause.

And if any one should die suddenly by him, immediately the head of his vow shall be defiled; and he shall shave his head in whatever day he shall be purified: on the seventh day he shall be shaved.

And Moses brought forth all the rods from before the Lord to all the sons of Israel; and they looked, and each one took his rod.

it will blossom from the scent of water, and will produce a crop, as one newly planted.

Yea, Assur too is come with them: they have become a help to the children of Lot. Pause.

And all the people of Ephraim, and they that dwelt in Samaria shall know, who say in their pride and lofty heart,

Early did I slay all the sinners of the land, that I might destroy out of the city of the Lord all that work iniquity.

But I am as a fruitful olive in the house of God: I have trusted in the mercy of God for ever, even for evermore.

And Moses wrote the words of this law in a book, and gave it to the priests the sons of Levi who bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to the elders of the sons of Israel.

I will hear what the Lord God will say concerning me: for he shall speak peace to his people, and to his saints, and to those that turn their heart toward him.

Is it a little thing for you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, and brought you near to himself to minister in the services of the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the tabernacle to minister for them?

then the worshipper shall offer upon the calf a meat-offering, three tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, even the half of a hin.

All that were numbered of the camp of Juda were a hundred and eighty thousand and six thousand and four hundred: they shall move first with their forces.

The Lord is compassionate and pitiful, long-suffering, and full of mercy.

They have taken counsel and spoken in wickedness: they have uttered unrighteousness loftily.

And if the Lord of Sabaoth had not left us a seed, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been made like Gomorrha.

Hear, my people, and I will speak to thee, O Israel; and I will testify to thee: if thou wilt hearken to me;

I waited for him that should deliver me from distress of spirit and tempest.

Of Zabulon, Eliab the son of Chaelon.

O God, I have declared my life to thee; thou has set my tears before thee, even according to thy promise.

Thou hast transplanted a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

All the day long mine enemies have reproached me; and they that praised me have sworn against me.

Only depart not from the Lord; and fear ye not the people of the land, for they are meat for us; for the season of prosperity is departed from them, but the Lord is among us: fear them not.

For these things have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts: for though many houses should be built, many and fair houses shall be desolate, and there shall be no inhabitants in them.

And thou shalt give the Levites to Aaron, and to his sons the priests; they are given for a gift to me of the children of Israel.

Awake, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I will awake early.

I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall not be inhabited any more: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

and the bases of the court round about, and the bases of the gate of the court, and the pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court round about;

They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.

Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might cause his mighty power to be known.

But thou, Lord, wilt laugh them to scorn; thou wilt utterly set at nought all the heathen.

Of the tribe of Ephraim, Ause the son of Naue.

Know, ye Gentiles, and be conquered; hearken ye, even to the extremity of the earth: be conquered, after ye strengthened yourselves; for even if ye should again strengthen yourselves, ye shall again be conquered.

Thou hast removed my acquaintance far from me; they have made me an abomination to themselves; I have been delivered up, and have not gone forth.

They go up to the mountains, and down to the plains, to the place which thou hast founded for them.

That they should not be as their fathers, a perverse and provoking generation; a generation which set not its heart aright, and its spirit was not steadfast with God.

But to the sons of Caath he gave them not, because they have the ministrations of the sacred things: they shall bear them on their shoulders.

And the great anger of the Lord was upon them, and he departed.

Judas is my king; Moab is the caldron of my hope; over Idumea will I stretch out my shoe; the Philistines have been subjected to me.

And ye shall take heed to do all the words of this covenant, that ye may understand all things that ye shall do.

He keeps back the face of his throne, stretching out his cloud upon it.

Will he cut off his mercy for ever, even for ever and ever?

And they shall take a blue covering, and cover the candlestick that gives light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its funnels, and all the vessels of oil with which they minister.

And he shall have dominion from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth.

And when the dew came upon the camp by night, the manna came down upon it.

Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,

And he will judge the world in righteousness, he will judge the nations in uprightness.

And he has stripped me of my glory, and has taken the crown from my head.

Thou shalt know therefore, that the Lord thy God, he is God, a faithful God, who keeps covenant and mercy for them that love him, and for those that keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

And the mean man bowed down, and the great man was humbled: and I will not pardon them.

To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, according to the day of irritation in the wilderness:

For the Lord is righteous, and loves righteousness; his face beholds uprightness.

And ye shall write them on the lintels of your houses and of your gates.

Then the devil answered, and said before the Lord, Does Job worship the Lord for nothing?

a land on which thou shalt not eat thy bread with poverty, and thou shalt not want any thing upon it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of its mountains thou shalt dig brass.