Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

Thou madest a way before it, and didst cause its roots to strike, and the land was filled with it.

And the Lord gave me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God, and on them there had been written all the words which the Lord spoke to you in the mountain in the day of the assembly.

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to destruction? Shall the dust give praise to thee? or shall it declare thy truth?

And from the breath of the Mighty One he will send frost; and he guides the water in whatever way he pleases.

Mine enemies shall be turned back, in the day wherein I shall call upon thee; behold, I know that thou art my God.

So innocent blood shall not be spilt in the land, which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit, and there shall not be in thee one guilty of blood.

And all the congregation bade stone them with stones; and the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud on the tabernacle of witness to all the children of Israel.

The tabernacle, and the cords, and the coverings, and the rings, and the bars, and the posts,

And the rulers brought gifts for the dedication of the altar, in the day in which he anointed it, and the rulers brought their gifts before the altar.

They shall declare thine ordinances to Jacob, and thy law to Israel: they shall place incense in the time of thy wrath continually upon thine altar.

And the Lord again spoke to Achaz, saying,

And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons over the tabernacle of witness; and they shall keep their charge of priesthood, and all things belonging to the altar, and within the veil; and the stranger that touches them shall die.

The Lord has hearkened to my petition; the Lord has accepted my prayer.

For where ten yoke of oxen plough the land shall yield one jar-full, and he that sows six homers shall produce three measures.

O Lord, I will give thanks to thee among the nations: I will sing to thee among the Gentiles.

But they vainly sought after my soul; they shall go into the lowest parts o the earth.

The voice of the Lord strengthens the hinds, and will uncover the thickets: and in his temple every one speaks of his glory.

For thou art he that drew me out of the womb; my hope from my mother's breasts.

and the brazen appendage of the altar, and all the vessels of the altar, and all the instruments of the tabernacle of witness.

Deliver me from mine enemies, O Lord; for I have fled to thee for refuge.

The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring for ever and ever: the judgments of the Lord are true, and justified altogether.

Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.

For the zeal of thine house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

Whereas the life of all living things is in his hand, and the breath of every man.

But he looked on her, and said to her, Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women. If we have received good things of the hand of the Lord, shall we not endure evil things? In all these things that happened to him, Job sinned not at all with his lips before God.

And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up: so he led them through the deep as through the wilderness.

And I set bounds to it, surrounding it with bars and gates.

Out of his mouth proceed as it were burning lamps, and as it were hearths of fire are cast abroad.

Thou hast set a bound which they shall not pass, neither shall they turn again to cover the earth.

Of the tribe of Benjamin, Phalti the son of Raphu.

who gives rain upon the earth, sending water on the earth:

There shall not be found in thee one who purges his son or his daughter with fire, one who uses divination, who deals with omens, and augury,

And whatsoever counsel ye shall take, the Lord shall bring it to nought; and whatsoever word ye shall speak, it shall not stand among you: for God is with us.

And they shall stone him with stones, and he shall die, because he sought to draw thee away from the Lord thy God who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

For he knows already my way; and he has tried me as gold.

Let the grave be my city, upon the walls of which I have leaped: I will not shrink from it; for I have not denied the holy words of my God.

Mine eyes are dimmed from poverty; but I cried to thee, O Lord, all the day; I spread forth my hands to thee.

will keep my strength, looking to thee; for thou, O God, art my helper.

As the Lord commanded Moses, so did they to the daughters of Salpaad.

His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the path.

And the Lord was very angry in that day, and sware, saying,

And the cloud departed from the tabernacle; and, behold, Mariam was leprous, white as snow; and Aaron looked upon Mariam, and, behold, she was leprous.

The children of Ephraim, bending and shooting with the bow, turned back in the day of battle.

For there is no truth in their mouth; their heart is vain; their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit.

who quickens my soul in life, and does not suffer my feet to be moved.

He that planted the ear, does he not hear? or he that formed the eye, does not he perceive?

The moon and the stars to rule the night; for his mercy endures for ever.

He sent redemption to his people: he commanded his covenant for ever: holy and fearful is his name.

Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: and take care of them, and lift them up for ever.

And thou shalt act according to the thing which they shall report to thee out of the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, and thou shalt observe to do all whatsoever shall have been by law appointed to thee.

For, behold, thine enemies shall perish; and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

The Lord your God has multiplied you, and, behold, ye are to-day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Will God forget to pity? or will he shut up his compassions in his wrath? Pause.

Keep me from the snare which they have set for me, and from the stumbling blocks of them that work iniquity.

For thou art Lord most high over all the earth; thou art greatly exalted above all gods.

Thy priests shall clothe themselves with righteousness; and thy saints shall exult.

Let his inferiors destroy his children, and let his hands kindle the fire of sorrow.

Therefore my heart rejoiced an my tongue exulted; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:

Hast thou not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?

The Ethiopians shall fall down before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

And the plates were divided, the threads of gold, so as to interweave with the blue and purple, and with the spun scarlet, and the fine linen twined, they made it a woven work;

even the things that happened in the day in which ye stood before the Lord our God in Choreb in the day of the assembly; for the Lord said to me, Gather the people to me, and let them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days which they live upon the earth, and they shall teach their sons.

And they shall put it, and all its vessels, into a blue skin cover; and they shall put it on bearers.

He has encompassed the face of the water by an appointed ordinance, until the end of light and darkness.

And they departed from Aelim, and encamped by the Red Sea.

Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces as a potter's vessel.

And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks to the Lord thy God, accordingly as thy hand has power in as many things as the Lord thy God shall give thee.

And Moses heard them weeping by their families, every one in his door: and the Lord was very angry; and the thing was evil in the sight of Moses.

For the heart of this people has become gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

I will say to God, Thou art my helper; why hast thou forgotten me? wherefore do I go sad of countenance, while the enemy oppresses me?

And Balaam said to God, Balac son of Sepphor, king of Moab, sent them to me, saying,

Turn not thy face away from me, turn not thou away from thy servant in anger: be thou my helper, forsake me not; and, O God my Saviour, overlook me not.

For he satisfies the empty soul, and fills the hungry soul with good things,

For even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, lifted up his heel against me.

Ye all stand to-day before the Lord your God, the heads of your tribes, and your elders, and your judges, and your officers, every man of Israel,

And thou shalt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and shalt do all his commands, and his ordinances, as many as I command thee this day.

Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:

and he shall surely not return to his own house, neither shall his place know him any more.

O God, thou wilt grant to thine inheritance a gracious rain; for it was weary, but thou didst refresh it.

It is better to hope in the Lord, than to hope in princes.

then let my wife also please another, and let my children be brought low.

Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Whatever man shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or on a journey far off, among you, or among your posterity; he shall then keep the passover to the Lord,

Therefore snares have compassed thee, and disastrous war has troubled thee.

And they stood aloof and abhorred me, and spared not to spit in my face.

when God arose to judgment, to save all the meek in heart. Pause.

And now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruits of the land, which thou gavest me, O Lord, a land flowing with milk and honey: and thou shalt leave it before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt worship before the Lord thy God;

And the Lord prospered Job: and when he prayed also for his friends, he forgave them their sin: and the Lord gave Job twice as much, even the double of what he had before.

And the children of Israel departed, and encamped in Oboth.

As for the head of them that compass me, the mischief of their lips shall cover them.

Who has exactly calculated the seed of Jacob, and who shall number the families of Israel? let my soul die with the souls of the righteous, and let my seed be as their seed.

And on the west side curtains of fifty cubits, their posts ten and their sockets ten.

Truly among us are both the old and very aged man, more advanced in days than thy father.

All nations whom thou hast made shall come, and shall worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.

For the land into which thou goest to inherit it, is not as the land of Egypt, whence ye came out, whensoever they sow the seed, and water it with their feet, as a garden of herbs:

The Lord also is become a refuge for the poor, a seasonable help, in affliction.

with which kings' daughters have gladdened thee for thine honour: the queen stood by on thy right hand, clothed in vesture wrought with gold, and arrayed in divers colours.

I have preached righteousness in the great congregation; lo! I will not refrain my lips; O Lord, thou knowest my righteousness.

Who does great and unsearchable things; glorious also and excellent things, innumerable.