Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

Take a millstone, grind meal: remove thy veil, uncover thy white hairs, make bare the leg, pass through the rivers.

Why did I come, and there was no man? why did I call, and there was none to hearken? Is not my hand strong to redeem? or can I not deliver? behold, by my rebuke I will dry up the sea, and make rivers a wilderness; and their fish shall be dried up because there is no water, and shall die for thirst.

and they said, The Lord commanded our lord to render the land of inheritance by lot to the children of Israel; and the Lord appointed our lord to give the inheritance of Salpaad our brother to his daughters.

The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted themselves, and become abominable in their devices; there is none that does goodness, there is not even so much as one.

and all these blessings shall come upon thee, and shall find thee. If thou wilt indeed hear the voice of the Lord thy God,

God is our refuge and strength, a help in the afflictions that have come heavily upon us.

He shall not cry, nor lift up his voice, nor shall his voice be heard without.

And if thou pass through water, I am with thee; and the rivers shall not overflow thee: and if thou go through fire, thou shalt not be burned; the flame shall not burn thee.

Thus saith the Lord God that made thee, and he that formed thee from the womb; Thou shalt yet be helped: fear not, my servant Jacob; and beloved Israel, whom I have chosen.

Speak, ye priests, to the heart of Jerusalem; comfort her, for her humiliation is accomplished, her sin is put away: for she has received of the Lord's hand double the amount of her sins.

The Lord reigns, let the earth exult, let many islands rejoice.

Who raised up righteousness from the east, and called it to his feet, so that it should go? shall appoint it an adversary of Gentiles, and shall dismay kings, and bury their swords in the earth, and cast forth their bows and arrows as sticks?

My heart has uttered a good matter: I declare my works to the king: my tongue is the pen of a quick writer.

Come, let us exult in the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to God our Saviour.

thine elders and thy judges shall come forth, and shall measure the distances of the cities round about the slain man:

Hast thou been often spoken to in distress? but who shall endure the force of thy words?

Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth.

For behold, I have opened my mouth, and my tongue has spoken.

And Ezekias turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the Lord, saying,

And Moses wrote their removals and their stages, by the word of the Lord: and these are the stages of their journeying.

The Lord is a God of vengeance; the God of vengeance has declared himself.

of eight and twenty cubits the length of one curtain: the same measure was to all, and the breadth of one curtain was of four cubits.

And he sent Heliakim the steward, and Somnas the scribe, and the elders of the priests clothed with sackcloth, to Esaias the son of Amos, the prophet. And they said to him, Thus says Ezekias,

Have mercy, upon me, O God, have mercy upon me: for my soul has trusted in thee: and in the shadow of thy wings will I hope, until the iniquity have passed away.

And Ezekias was glad of their coming, and he shewed them the house of his spices, and of silver, and gold, and myrrh, and incense, and ointment, and all the houses of his treasures, and all that he had in his stores: and there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, which Ezekias did not shew.

And these are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the first-born; and Abiud, Eleazar and Ithamar.

Hear me, ye wise men; hearken, ye that have knowledge.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, When ye are come into the land of your habitation, which I give to you,

saying,

The God of gods, the Lord, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof.

Will a wise man give for answer a mere breath of wisdom? and does he fill up the pain of his belly,

And the king of the Assyrians sent Rabsaces out of Laches to Jerusalem to king Ezekias with a large force: and he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the way of the fuller's field.

I will go before thee, and will level mountains: I will break to pieces brazen doors, and burst iron bars.

Blessed is the man that does these things, and the man that holds by them, and keeps the sabbaths from profaning them, and keeps his hands from doing unrighteousness.

And it shall come to pass in the day when ye shall cross over Jordan into the land which the Lord thy God gives thee, that thou shalt set up for thyself great stones, and shalt plaster them with plaster.

He that dwells in the help of the Highest, shall sojourn under the shelter of the God of heaven.

And a man shall hide his words, and be hidden, as from rushing water, and shall appear in Sion as a rushing river, glorious in a thirsty land.

And Israel vowed a vow to the Lord, and said, If thou wilt deliver this people into my power, I will devote it and its cities to thee.

And they called them to the sacrifices of their idols; and the people ate of their sacrifices, and worshipped their idols.

And it shall come to pass whenever thou shalt draw nigh to battle, that the priest shall draw nigh and speak to the people, and shall say to them,

Therefore he has wisely brought evils upon them, and his word shall not be frustrated; and he shall rise up against the houses of wicked men, and against their vain hope,

Lord, have mercy upon us; for we have trusted in thee: the seed of the rebellious is gone to destruction, but our deliverance was in a time of affliction.

Lord, thou hast been our refuge in all generations.

Then Elius the son of Barachiel, the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram, of the country of Ausis, was angered: and he was very angry with Job, because he justified himself before the Lord.

even they that proceed to go down into Egypt, but they have not enquired of me, that they might be helped by Pharao, and protected by the Egyptians.

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause, against an ungodly nation: deliver me from the unjust and crafty man.

Or he falls like a flower that has bloomed; and he departs like a shadow, and cannot continue.

It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord, and to sing praises to thy name, O thou Most High;

For I will grievously afflict Ariel: and her strength and her wealth shall be mine.

I will sing of thy mercies, O Lord, for ever: I will declare thy truth with my mouth to all generations.

And thou shalt write upon the tables the words which were on the first tables which thou didst break, and thou shalt put them into the ark.

Now what portion has God given from above? and is there an inheritance given of the Mighty One from the highest?

In that day there shall be a fair vineyard, and a desire to commence a song concerning it.

Blessed is the man who thinks, on the poor and needy: the Lord shall deliver him in an evil day.

As the hart earnestly desires the fountains of water, so my soul earnestly longs for thee, O God.

In the Lord I have put my trust: how will ye say to my soul,

For thou hast made cities a heap, even cities made strong that their foundations should not fall: the city of ungodly men shall not be built for ever.

Let the children of Israel encamp fronting each other, every man keeping his own rank, according to their standards, according to the houses of their families; the children of Israel shall encamp round about the tabernacle of witness.

Save me, O Lord; for the godly man has failed; for truth is diminished from among the children of men.

And the people shall be as the priest, and the servant as the lord, and the maid as the mistress; the buyer shall be as the seller, the lender as the borrower, and the debtor as his creditor.

And the Lord, said to the devil, Whence comest thou? Then the devil said before the Lord, I am come from going through the world, and walking about the whole earth.

Blessed are the blameless in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.

Open ye the gates, let the nation enter that keeps righteousness, and keeps truth,

Behold, the anger of the Lord is strong and severe, as descending hail where there is no shelter, violently descending; as a great body of water sweeping away the soil, he shall make rest for the land.

For the wrath of the Lord is upon all nations, and his anger upon the number of them, to destroy them, and give them up to slaughter.

so a fearful and a grievous vision was declared to me: he that is treacherous deals treacherously, the transgressor transgresses. The Elamites are upon me, and the ambassadors of the Persians come against me: now will I groan and comfort myself.

Therefore prophesy, son of man, set thy face steadfastly toward Jerusalem, and look toward their holy places, and thou shalt prophesy against the land of Israel,

then the Lord spoke to Esaias the son of Amos, saying, Go and take the sackcloth off thy loins, and loose thy sandals from off thy feet, and do thus, going naked and barefoot.

O Lord, incline thine ear, and hearken to me; for I am poor and needy.

His foundations are in the holy mountains.

O Lord, thou has taken pleasure in thy land: thou hast turned back the captivity of Jacob.

Give orders to the children of Israel, and they shall give to the Levites cities to dwell in from the lot of their possession, and they shall give to the Levites the suburbs of the cities round about them.

He sends messengers by the sea, and paper letters on the water: for swift messengers shall go to a lofty nation, and to a strange and harsh people. Who is beyond it? a nation not looked for, and trodden down.

I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I set a guard on my mouth, while the sinner stood in my presence.

And I know all that ye too know; and I have not less understanding than you.

And he had seven sons and three daughters.

And the Egyptians shall be stirred up against the Egyptians: and a man shall fight against his brother, and a man against his neighbor, city against city, and law against law.

The city is filled with shouting men: thy slain are not slain with swords, nor are thy dead those who have died in battle.

For thou shalt be as a young bird taken away from a bird that has flown: even thou shalt be so, daughter of Moab: and then do thou, O Arnon,

O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath, neither chasten me in thine anger.

How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!

Yea, why had I the strength of their hands? for them the full term of life was lost.

O Lord, our Lord, how wonderful is thy name in all the earth! for thy magnificence is exalted above the heavens.

Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, neither be envious of them that do iniquity.

Grieve for yourselves; for even Debon, where your altar is, shall be destroyed: thither shall ye go up to weep, over Nabau of the land of Moab: howl ye: baldness shall be on every head, and all arms shall be wounded.

abandoned for ever, to be a fold and resting-place for flocks, and there shall be none to go after them.

Speak, and let the children of Israel keep the passover in its season.

For thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God, and the Lord thy God has chosen thee to be a peculiar people to himself of all the nations on the face of the earth.

Charge the children of Israel, and thou shalt speak to them, saying, Ye shall observe to offer to me in my feasts my gifts, my presents, my burnt-offerings for a sweet-smelling savour.

And when Balac son of Sepphor saw all that Israel did to the Amorite,

I waited patiently for the Lord; and he attended to me, and hearkened to my supplication.

So then ye alone are men, and wisdom shall die with you?

And the Gentiles shall take them, and bring them into their place: and they shall inherit them, and they shall be multiplied upon the land for servants and handmaidens: and they that took them captives shall become captives to them; and they that had lordship over them shall be under their rule.

that thou shalt take of the first of the fruits of thy land, which the Lord thy God gives thee, and thou shalt put them into a basket, and thou shalt go to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to have his name called there.

This is the constitution of the law, as the Lord has commanded, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, and let them take for thee a red heifer without spot, which has no spot on her, and on which no yoke has been put.

I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will recount all thy wonderful works.

O God, who shall be compared to thee? be not silent, neither be still, O God.

and the Spirit of God shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and godliness shall fill him;

O Lord my God, in thee have I trusted: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me.