Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

And now I will expose her uncleanness before her lovers, and no one shall by any means deliver her out of my hand.

And they shall eat, and shall not be satisfied: they have gone a-whoring, and shall by no means prosper: because they have left off to take heed to the Lord.

The princes of Juda became as they that removed the bounds: I will pour out upon them my fury as water.

And thy strength is that of a robber: the priests have hid the way, they have murdered the people of Sicima; for they have wrought iniquity in the house of Israel.

And the pride of Israel shall be brought down before his face: yet they have not returned to the Lord their God, neither have they diligently sought him for all this.

Therefore shall they be delivered to the nations: now I will receive them, and they shall cease a little to anoint a king and princes.

I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness, and I saw their fathers as an early watchman in a fig-tree: they went in to Beel-phegor, and were shamefully estranged, and the abominable became as the beloved.

to chastise them shall not overtake them on the hill, the nations shall be gathered against them, when they are chastened for their two sins,

I will go after the Lord: he shall utter his voice as a lion: for he shall roar, and the children of the waters shall be amazed.

And I will speak to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by the means of the prophets I was represented.

Where is this thy king? let him even save thee in all thy cities: let him judge thee, of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and a prince.

Who is wise, and will understand these things? or prudent, and will know them? for the ways of the Lord are straight, and the righteous shall walk in them: but the ungodly shall fall therein.

For the plains languish: let the land mourn, for the corn languishes; the wine is dried up, the oil becomes scarce;

Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your sickles into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

They hated him that reproved in the gates, and abhorred holy speech.

But a remnant shall be left behind, and their relations shall take them, and shall strenuously endeavor to carry forth their bones from the house: and one shall say to the heads of the house, Is there yet any one else with thee?

Because of the slaughter and the sin committed against thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

Then the men feared exceedingly, and said to him, What is this that thou hast done? for the men knew that he was fleeing from the face of the Lord, because he had told them.

But I will sacrifice to thee with the voice of praise and thanksgiving: all that I have vowed I will pay to thee, the Lord of my salvation.

And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil ways; and God repented of the evil which he had said he would do to them; and he did it not.

And the Lord said, Thou hadst pity on the gourd, for which thou has not suffered, neither didst thou rear it; which came up before night, and perished before another night:

Ye that are in Geth, exalt not yourselves, and ye Enakim, do not rebuild from the ruins of the house in derision: sprinkle dust in the place of your laughter.

Arise thou, and depart; for this is not thy rest because of uncleanness: ye have been utterly destroyed;

who build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Be in pain, and strengthen thyself, and draw near, O daughter of Sion, as a woman in travail: for now thou shalt go forth out of the city, and shalt lodge in the plain, and shalt reach even to Babylon: thence shall the Lord thy God deliver thee, and thence shall he redeem thee out of the hand of thine enemies.

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that I will utterly destroy the horses out of the midst of thee, and destroy thy chariots;

Is there not fire, and the house of the wicked heaping up wicked treasures, and that with the pride of unrighteousness?

And she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shall clothe herself with shame, who says, Where is the Lord thy God? mine eyes shall look upon her: now shall she be for trampling as mire in the ways.

There is thrusting forth, and shaking, and tumult, and heart-breaking, and loosing of knees, and pangs on all loins; and the faces of all are as the blackening of a pot.

And he shall be at his ease with kings, and princes are his toys, and he shall mock at every strong-hold, and shall cast a mound, and take possession of it.

Thou hast devised shame to thy house, thou hast utterly destroyed many nations, and thy soul has sinned.

The nations shall see thee and be in pain, as thou dost divide the moving waters: the deep uttered her voice, and raised her form on high.

And there shall be in that day, saith the Lord, the sound of a cry from the gate of men slaying, and a howling from the second gate, and a great crashing from the hills.

This is their punishment in return for their haughtiness, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the Lord Almighty.

From the boundaries of the rivers of Ethiopia will I receive my dispersed ones; they shall offer sacrifices to me.

therefore shall the sky withhold dew, and the earth shall keep back her produce.

For the glory of this house shall be great, the latter more than the former, saith the Lord Almighty: and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord Almighty, even peace of soul for a possession to every one that builds, to raise up this temple.

And the man that stood between the mountains answered, and said to me, These are they whom the Lord has sent forth to go round the earth.

Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Sion: for, behold, I come, and will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the Lord.

For as for the stone which I have set before the face of Jesus, on the one stone are seven eyes: behold, I am digging a trench, saith the Lord Almighty, and I will search out all the iniquity of that land in one day.

For who has despised the small days? surely they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet of tin in the hand of Zorobabel: these are the seven eyes that look upon all the earth.

And I said to the angel that spoke with me, Whither do these carry away the measure?

Take the things of the captivity from the chief men, and from the useful men of it, and from them that have understood it; and thou shalt enter in that day into the house of Josias the son of Sophonias that came out of Babylon.

and oppress not the widow, or the fatherless, or the stranger, or the poor; and let not one of you remember in his heart the injury of his brother.

For before those days the wages of men could not be profitable, and there could be no hire of cattle, and there could be no peace by reason of the affliction to him that went out or to him that came in: for I would have let loose all men, every one against his neighbour.

And he shall destroy the chariots out of Ephraim, and the horse out of Jerusalem, and the bow of war shall be utterly destroyed; and there shall be abundance and peace out of the nations; and he shall rule over the waters as far as the sea, and the rivers to the ends of the earth.

And I will bring them again from the land of Egypt, and I will gather them in from among the Assyrians; and I will bring them into the land of Galaad and to Libanus; and there shall not even one of them be left behind.

And I will take my beautiful staff, and cast it away, that I may break my covenant which I made with all the people.

And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and compassion: and they shall look upon me, because they have mocked me, and they shall make lamentation for him, as for a beloved friend, and they shall grieve intensely, as for a firstborn son.

compassing all the earth, and the wilderness from Gabe unto Remmon south of Jerusalem. And Rama shall remain in its place. From the gate of Benjamin to the place of the first gate, to the gate of the corners, and to the tower of Anameel, as far as the king's winepresses,

Because even among you the doors shall be shut, and one will not kindle the fire of mine altar for nothing, I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord Almighty, and I will not accept a sacrifice at your hands.

Have ye not all one father? Did not one God create you? why have ye forsaken every man his brother, to profane the covenant of your fathers?

The year is completed, and ye have brought all the produce into the storehouses; but there shall be the plunder thereof in its house: return now on this behalf, saith the Lord Almighty, see if I will not open to you the torrents of heaven, and pour out my blessing upon you, until ye are satisfied.

And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the doors of the tabernacle of witness.

He will not be always angry; neither will he be wrathful for ever.

The bricks are fallen down, but come, let us hew stones, and cut down sycamores and cedars, and let us build for ourselves a tower.

All the cities of Misor, and all Galaad, and all Basan as far as Elcha and Edraim, cities of the kingdom of Og in Basan.

For he spoke, and they were made; he commanded, and they were created.

But now look at the wild beasts with thee; they eat grass like oxen.

And Moses charged them in that day, saying, After seven years, in the time of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,

But none said, Where is God that made me, who appoints the night-watches;

Be ye not as horse and mule, which have no understanding; but thou must constrain their jaws with bit and curb, lest they should come nigh to thee.

But the sons of men are vain; the sons of men are false, so as to be deceitful in the balances; they are all alike formed out of vanity.

O God, I will sing a new song to thee: I will play to thee on a psaltery of ten strings.

Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Ye are to cross over Jordan into the land of Chanaan.

And he has brought thee near and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee, and do ye seek to be priests also?

and doing mercifully to thousands of them that love me, and that keep my commandments.

And if when thou goest out to war against thine enemies, the Lord thy God should deliver them into thine hands, and thou shouldest take their spoil,

Moreover his salvation is near them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.

And the vow of a widow and of her that is put away, whatsoever she shall bind upon her soul, shall stand to her.

And thou shalt bring the Levites before the Lord; and the sons of Israel shall lay their hands upon the Levites.

Let his children be orphans, and his wife a widow.

And wine for a drink-offering the half of a hin, a sacrifice for a smell of sweet savour to the Lord.

And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall arise to rule over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust, and his rest shall be glorious.

They have set their mouth against heaven, and their tongue has gone through upon the earth.

But he will hearken to the righteous: and he has said that they shall turn from unrighteousness.

And ye shall go over Jordan, and shall dwell in the land, which the Lord our God takes as an inheritance for you; and he shall give you rest from all your enemies round about, and ye shall dwell safely.

This is the order of the camp of Ruben; their forces shall be toward the south, and the prince of the children of Ruben shall be Elisur the son of Sediur.

For I have eaten ashes as it were bread, and mingled my drink with weeping;

Moab is the caldron of my hope; over Idumea will I cast my sandal; the Philistines are made subject to me.

And there rose up no more a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face,

Pity me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with indignation, my soul and by belly.

And if thou shalt draw nigh to a city to overcome them by war, then call them out peaceably.

He sent signs and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt, on Pharao, and on all his servants.

Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodoma; attend to the law of God, thou people of Gomorrha.

In his anger he has cast me down; he has gnashed his teeth upon me: the weapons of his robbers have fallen upon me.

Of the sons of Joseph, of Ephraim, Elisama the son of Emiud: of Manasses, Gamaliel the son of Phadasur.

there shall be no new god in thee; neither shalt thou worship a strange god.

if thou wilt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments, and his ordinances, and his judgments written in the book of this law, if thou turn to the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

And the hallowed things of every man shall be his; and whatever man shall give any thing to the priest, the gift shall be his.

For thou, O Lord, art my hope: thou, my soul, hast made the Most High thy refuge.

shall not these teach thee, and report to thee, and bring out words from their heart?

And all that have not fins and scales ye shall not eat; they are unclean to you.

And in the days of your gladness, and in your feasts, and in your new moons, ye shall sound with the trumpets at your whole-burnt-offerings, and at the sacrifices of your peace-offerings; and there shall be a memorial for you before your God: I am the Lord your God.

Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen iniquity and gain saying in the city.

because it shut not up the gates of my mother's womb, for so it would have removed sorrow from my eyes.

Because thou saidst, The two nations and the two countries shall be mine, and I shall inherit them; whereas the Lord is there:

And they burnt with fire all their cities in the places of their habitation and they burnt their villages with fire.