Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt in them;

saying, God has forsaken him: persecute ye and take him; for there is none to deliver him.

And he made the furniture of the table, both the dishes, and the censers, and the cups, and the bowls with which he should offer drink-offerings, of gold.

He sets up his tail like a cypress; and his nerves are wrapped together.

And I put on sackcloth for my covering; and I became a proverb to them.

For they drink wine with harp, and psaltery, and drums, and pipes: but they regard not the works of the Lord, and consider not the works of his hands.

because they rebelled against the words of God, and provoked the counsel of the Most High.

Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?

having assembled the people, the men, and the women, and the children, and the stranger that is in your cities, that they may hear, and that they may learn to fear the Lord your God; and they shall hearken to do all the words of this law.

The heavens are thine, and the earth is thine: thou hast founded the world, and the fullness of it.

The Lord God will give a word to them that preach it in a great company.

It is not in heaven above, as if there were one saying, Who shall go up for us into heaven, and shall take it for us, and we will hear and do it?

But if there had been any truth in thy words, none of these evils would have befallen thee. Shall not mine ear receive excellent revelations from him?

He has calmed the sea with his might, and by his wisdom the whale has been overthrown.

O my people, your exactors strip you, and extortioners rule over you: O my people, they that pronounce you blesses lead you astray, and pervert the path of your feet.

And the Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the calves; and thou shalt offer one for a sin-offering, and the other for a whole-burnt-offering to the Lord, to make atonement for them.

Shall any one declare thy mercy in the tomb? and thy truth in destruction?

Thou broughtest us into the snare; thou laidest afflictions on our back.

They shall not leave of it until the morrow, and they shall not break a bone of it; they shall sacrifice it according to the ordinance of the passover.

In length of time is wisdom, and in long life knowledge.

Behold, ye all know that ye are adding vanity to vanity.

And of the gold that remained of the offering they made vessels to minister with before the Lord.

And thou shalt bring up his sons, and shalt put garments on them.

Thou wilt bless the crown of the year because of thy goodness; and thy plains shall be filled with fatness.

And the children of Israel set forward with their baggage in the wilderness of Sina; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Pharan.

neither shall I transgress; but I have hid his words in my bosom.

If he would take away, who shall turn him back? or who shall say to him, What hast thou done?

I have turned the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

that thou shouldest enter into the covenant of the Lord thy God and into his oaths, as many as the Lord thy God appoints thee this day;

For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and haughty, and upon every one that is high and towering, and they shall be brought down;

But let all that trust on thee be glad in thee: they shall exult for ever, and thou shalt dwell among them; and all that love thy name shall rejoice in thee.

The Lord knows the thoughts of men, that they are vain.

But whence has wisdom been discovered? and what is the place of knowledge?

What has thine heart dared? or what have thine eyes aimed at,

Have I conceived all this people, or have I born them? that thou sayest to me, Take them into thy bosom, as a nurse would take her suckling, into the land which thou swarest to their fathers?

Let her not be as it were like death, as an abortion coming out of his mother's womb, when the disease devours the half of the flesh.

Guide me, O Lord, in thy way, and I will walk in thy truth: let my heart rejoice, that I may fear thy name.

And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes, and your body like a body of clay.

Slay them not, lest they forget thy law; scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord, my defender.

Of the tribe of Joseph of the sons of Manasse, Gaddi the son of Susi.

And now, Israel, what does the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, and to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul;

I will smite them with death, and destroy them; and I will make of thee and of thy father's house a great nation, and much greater than this.

I have hoped in God; I will not be afraid of what man shall do to me.

and why did the knees support me? and why did I suck the breasts?

And man that has lain down in death shall certainly not rise again till the heaven be dissolved, and they shall not awake from their sleep.

For I saved the poor out of the hand of the oppressor, and helped the fatherless who had no helper.

And when they saw him from a distance they did not know him; and they cried with a loud voice, and wept, and rent every one his garment, and sprinkled dust upon their heads,

Of Dan, Achiezer the son of Amisadai.

and usury and craft have not failed from its streets.

Truth has sprung out of the earth; and righteousness has looked down from heaven.

neither shall ye come with these to appear before me; for who has required these things at your hands? Ye shall no more tread my court.

According to the number of what ye shall offer, so shall ye do to each one, according to their number.

And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiron sons of Eliab; and they said, We will not go up.

vex him with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him.

May the Lord open to thee his good treasure, the heaven, to give rain to thy land in season: may he bless all the works of thy hands: so shalt thou lend to many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over thee.

And the children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we are cut off, we are destroyed, we are consumed.

They completely compassed me about: but in the name of the Lord I repulsed them.

Cast me not away from thy presence; and remove not thy holy Spirit from me.

Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Sion: declare his dealings among the nations.

I know all the birds of the sky; and the beauty of the field is mine.

They have risen up against me on the right hand of their offspring; they have stretched out their foot, and directed against me the ways of their destruction.

Every first-offering of oil, and every first-offering of wine, their first-fruits of corn, whatsoever they may give to the Lord, to thee have I given them.

A land which the Lord thy God surveys continually, the eyes of the Lord thy God are upon it from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

And their sepulchres are their houses for ever, even their tabernacles to all generations: they have called their lands after their own names.

I have hidden thine oracles in my heart, that I might not sin against thee.

Let mount Sion rejoice, let the daughters of Judaea exult, because of thy judgments, O Lord.

He shall be purified on the third day and the seventh day, and shall be clean; but if he be not purged on the third day and the seventh day, he shall not be clean.

For the Lord loves mercy and truth: God will give grace and glory: the Lord will not withhold good things from them that walk in innocence.

These shall stand to bless the people on mount Garizin having gone over Jordan; Symeon, Levi, Judas, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

Make their princes as Oreb and Zeb, and Zebee and Salmana; even all their princes:

And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Because ye have not believed me to sanctify me before the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.

For as the heaven is high above the earth, the Lord has so increased his mercy toward them that fear him.

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

But man vainly buoys himself up with words; and a mortal born of woman is like an ass in the desert.

And when thou shalt have completed all the tithings of thy fruits in the third year, thou shalt give the second tenth to the Levite, and stranger, and fatherless, and widow; and they shall eat it in thy cities, and be merry.

For it is a fire burning on every side, and whomsoever it attacks, it utterly destroys.

even Syria from the rising of the sun, and the Greeks from the setting of the sun, who devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but still his hand is exalted.

And they that encamp next to him shall be of the tribe of Symeon, and the prince of the sons of Symeon shall be Salamiel the son of Surisadai.

Because the king has desired thy beauty; for he is thy Lord.

And thence they departed, and encamped in the valley of Zared.

When it is yet on the root, and though it has not been cut down, does not any herb wither before it has received moisture?

And God said to Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them, neither shalt thou curse the people; for they are blessed.

God is a righteous judge, and strong, and patient, not inflicting vengeance every day.

Wherefore art thou very sad, O my soul? and wherefore dost thou trouble me? hope in God; for I will give thanks to him; he is the health of my countenance, and my God.

By this I know that thou hast delighted in me, because mine enemy shall not rejoice over me.

kings of the earth, and all peoples; princes, and all judges of the earth:

And Balaam said to Balac, Whatsoever the Lord shall put into my mouth, shall I not take heed to speak this?

His troops also came upon me with one accord, liars in wait compassed my ways.

The Lord sware in truth to David, and he will not annul it, saying, Of the fruit of thy body will I set a king upon thy throne.

thou shalt cut off her hand; thine eye shall not spare her.

But thou, Lord, remove not thy compassion far from me; thy mercy and thy truth have helped me continually.

saying To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the line of your inheritance:

And Balaam said to Balac, Did I not speak to thy messengers also whom thou sentest to me, saying,

And ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God, ye and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants and your maid-servants, and the Levite that is at your gates; because he has no portion or inheritance with you.

and I shall understand as far as you; and, behold, there was no one of you that answered Job his words in argument,

And thou didst bestow upon me life and mercy, and thy oversight has preserved my spirit.

Thou chastenest man with rebukes for iniquity, and thou makest his life to consume away like a spider's web; nay, every man is disquieted in vain. Pause.

But my people hearkened not to my voice; and Israel gave no heed to me.