Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

For ye shall go forth with joy, and shall be taught with gladness: for the mountains and the hills shall exult to welcome you with joy, and all the trees of the field shall applaud with their branches.

I will write down a multitude of commands for him; but his statutes are accounted strange things, even the beloved altars.

O Lord, that provest just deeds, understanding the reins and hearts, let me see thy vengeance upon them: for to thee I have revealed my cause.

Thus will I do, saith the Lord, to this place, and to the inhabitants of it, that this city may be given up, as one that is falling to ruin.

In thee they have received gifts to shed blood; they have received in thee interest and usurious increase; and by oppression thou hast brought thy wickedness to the full, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord.

to seize plunder, and to take their spoil; to turn my hands against the desolate land that is now inhabited, and against a nation that is gathered from many nations, that have acquired property, dwelling in the midst of the land.

And I will declare thy righteousness, and thy sins, which shall not profit thee.

Whenever they shall go, I will cast my net upon them; I will bring them down as the birds of the sky, I will chasten them with the rumor of their coming affliction.

And thy old waste desert places shall be built up, and thy foundations shall last through all generations; and thou shalt be called a repairer of breaches, and thou shalt cause thy paths between to be in peace.

Behold, I have taken the Levites from the midst of the children of Israel, instead of every male that opens the womb from among the children of Israel: they shall be their ransom, and the Levites shall be mine.

Let the groaning of the prisoners come in before thee; according to the greatness of thine arm preserve the sons of the slain ones.

Thou madest us as sheep for meat; and thou scatteredst us among the nations.

And thou shalt have a place outside of the camp, and thou shalt go out thither,

But the counsel of the Lord endures for ever, the thoughts of his heart from generation to generation.

The water covered those that oppressed them: there was not one of them left.

And thinkest thou that the Lord will do wrong, or will the Almighty who made the earth wrest judgment?

And he shall lift up a standard for the nations, and he shall gather the lost ones of Israel, and he shall gather the dispersed of Juda from the four corners of the earth.

Be glad in the Lord, and exult, ye righteous: and glory, all ye that are upright in heart.

Light is sprung up for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

Deliver me, and rescue me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity;

and her husband should hear, and hold his peace at her, and not disallow her, then all her vows shall stand, and all the obligations which she contracted against her soul, shall stand against her.

Let them not say, It is hard, for whatsoever this people says, is hard: but fear not ye their fear, neither be dismayed.

I became a reproach among all mine enemies, but exceedingly so to my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that saw me without fled from me.

Does not he that dwells in the high places observe? and has he not brought down the proud?

the Lord alone led them, there was no strange god with them.

And they brought to Moses and to Eleazar the priest, and to all the children of Israel, the captives, and the spoils, and the plunder, to the camp to Araboth Moab, which is at Jordan by Jericho.

And if in one of thy cities which the Lord God gives thee to dwell therein, thou shalt hear men saying,

Thou hast turned my mourning into joy for me: thou hast rent off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

The Lord will give strength to his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace.

If thou take account of the children of Israel in the surveying of them, and they shall give every one a ransom for his soul to the Lord, then there shall not be among them a destruction in the visiting of them.

Thou shalt quicken me, O Lord, for thy name's sake; in thy righteousness thou shalt bring my soul out of affliction.

Thou shalt make fringes on the four borders of thy garments, with which soever thou mayest be clothed.

save Caleb the son of Jephonne, who was set apart, and Joshua the son of Naue, for they closely followed after the Lord.

Though evil be sweet in his mouth, though he will hide it under his tongue;

A talkative man shall not prosper on the earth: evils shall hunt the unrighteous man to destruction.

There they shall cry, and none shall hearken, even because of the insolence of wicked men.

Teach me, O Lord, in thy way, and guide me in a right path, because of mine enemies.

And they forgot his benefits, and his miracles which he had shewed them;

And it shall come to pass, when the Lord shall have finished doing all things on Mount Sion and Jerusalem, that I will visit upon the proud heart, even upon the ruler of the Assyrians, and upon the boastful haughtiness of his eyes.

and shouldest bring her within thine house: then shalt thou shave her head, and pare her nails;

And they departed from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Raphaca.

I remembered the works of the Lord; for I will remember thy wonders from the beginning.

But he preserves not the ungodly; because they are not willing to know the Lord, and because when reproved they were disobedient.

For he shall give his angels charge concerning thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

And Achaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord.

For thy name's sake, O Lord, do thou also be merciful to my sin; for it is great.

And they shall take all the instruments of service, with which they minister in the sanctuary: and shall place them in a cloth of blue, and shall cover them with blue skin covering, and put them upon staves.

When I said, Surely the darkness will cover me; even the night was light in my luxury.

And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the termination shall be the salt sea; this shall be your land and its borders round about.

And the cities shall be to you places of refuge from the avenger of blood, and the slayer shall not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

Vow, and pay your vows to the Lord our God; all that are round about him shall bring gifts, even to him that is terrible,

But if they will not hearken to thee, but wage war against thee, thou shalt invest it;

Stand not aloof from me; for affliction is near; for there is no helper.

And these of them ye shall not eat; the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the sea-eagle,

they were married to men of the tribe of Manasse of the sons of Joseph; and their inheritance was attached to the tribe of their father's family.

How shall I alone be able to bear your labour, and your burden, and your gainsayings?

then shall the elders of his city send, and take him thence, and they shall deliver him into the hands of the avengers of blood, and he shall die.

And to Benjamin he said, The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in confidence, and God overshadows him always, and he rested between his shoulders.

And he will carry round the encircling clouds by his governance, to perform their works: whatsoever he shall command them,

And after this God shall remove the men far off, and they that are left upon the land shall be multiplied.

Am I a sea, or a serpent, that thou hast set a watch over me?

Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whosesoever wife shall transgress against him, and slight and despise him,

For they intended evils against thee; they imagined a device which they shall by no means be able to perform.

For thy servant keeps to them: in the keeping of them there is great reward.

And the Chorrhite dwelt in Seir before, and the sons of Esau destroyed them, and utterly consumed them from before them; and they dwelt in their place, as Israel did to the land of his inheritance, which the Lord gave to them.

His breath is as live coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

Wilt not thou, O God, who hast rejected us? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?

Let the heavens rejoice, and the earth exult; let the sea be moved, and the fullness of it.

Let his creditor exact all that belongs to him: and let strangers spoil his labours.

Wherefore turnest thou away thine hand, and thy right hand from the midst of thy bosom for ever?

Or did I order the morning light in thy time; and did the morning star then first see his appointed place;

And if thy brother or sister, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, be sold to thee, he shall serve thee six years, and in the seventh year thou shalt send him out free from thee.

and they rejoice at the voice of a song.

And he made darkness his secret place: round about him was his tabernacle, even dark water in the clouds of the air.

And brought Israel out of the midst of them; for his mercy endures for ever:

And we inherited that land at that time from Aroer, which is by the border of the torrent Arnon, and half the mount of Galaad; and I gave his cities to Ruben and to Gad.

and their pillars three, and their sockets three.

For the Lord has delivered me into the hands of unrighteous men, and thrown me upon the ungodly.

For every one that does these things is an abomination to the Lord thy God; for because of these abominations the Lord will destroy them from before thy face.

They have now cast me out and compassed me round about: they have set their eyes so as to bow them down to the ground.

And they said, How does God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High?

Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou wilt fill me with joy with thy countenance: at thy right hand there are delights for ever.

And the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire a voice of words, which ye heard: and ye saw no likeness, only ye heard a voice.

frustrating the counsels of the crafty, and their hands shall not perform the truth:

in which he was consecrated to the Lord, all the days of his vow; and he shall bring a lamb of a year old for a trespass-offering; and the former days shall not be reckoned, because the head of his vow was polluted.

Who have cast forth the poor from the city and their own houses, and the soul of the children has groaned aloud.

And the man whosoever shall act in haughtiness, so as not to hearken to the priest who stands to minister in the name of the Lord thy God, or the judge who shall preside in those days, that man shall die, and thou shalt remove the evil one out of Israel.

Seon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Basan, and all the kingdoms of Chanaan:

Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God commanded thee.

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and thou shalt observe and do these commands.

and the curtains of the court, and its posts,

And wilt thou believe that he will return to thee thy seed, and bring it in to thy threshing-floor?

Who knows the power of thy wrath?

And all kings shall worship him; all the Gentiles shall serve him.

beware lest thou forget the Lord thy God that brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

They shall give drink to all the wild beasts of the field: the wild asses shall take of them to quench their thirst.

And he that offered his gift on the first day, was Naasson the son of Aminadab, prince of the tribe of Juda.

My days have declined like a shadow; and I am withered like grass.