Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

And they shall not shave their heads, nor shall they pluck off their hair; they shall carefully cover their heads.

consider in your hearts, whether this shall be known on the corn-floor, and whether yet the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-trees that bear no fruit are with you: from this day will I bless you.

And though the Lord shall give you the bread of affliction and scant water, yet they that cause thee to err shall no more at all draw nigh to thee; for thine eyes shall see those that cause thee to err,

And their enemies shall be ashamed at that time, when I shall deal well with you, and at the time when I shall receive you: for I will make you honoured and a praise among all the nations of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before you, saith the Lord.

It shall never be inhabited, neither shall any enter into it for many generations: neither shall the Arabians pass through it; nor shall shepherds at all rest in it.

And they went in to the king into the court, and gave the roll to one to keep in the house of Elisama; and they told the king all these words.

Blessed are they that sow by every water, where the ox and ass tread.

Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he has framed against Idumea; and his device, which he has devised against the inhabitants of Thaeman: surely the least of the sheep shall be swept off; surely their dwelling shall be made desolate for them.

RECHS. The breath of our nostrils, our anointed Lord, was taken in their destructive snares, of whom we said, In his shadow we shall live among the Gentiles.

Behold the city of Sion, our refuge: thine eyes shall behold Jerusalem, a rich city, tabernacles which shall not be shaken, neither shall the pins of her tabernacle be moved for ever, neither shall her cords be at all broken:

But thou, O Lord, shalt dwell for ever; thy throne shall endure to generation and generation.

Wherever the cloud happened to be, there was the spirit ready to go: the wheels went and were lifted up with them; because the spirit of life was in the wheels.

For of old thou hast broken thy yoke, and plucked asunder thy bands; and thou has said, I will not serve thee, but will go upon every high hill, and under every shady tree, there will I indulge in my fornication.

And this is that which ye said, The way of the Lord is not straight. I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one for his ways.

O Lord, that judgest righteously, trying the reins and hearts, let me see thy vengeance taken upon them, for to thee I have declared my cause.

But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth fear before him.

Which is the god of all these nations, that has delivered his land out of my hand, that God should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

And when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits a trespass, and I shall bring punishment before him, he shall die, because thou didst not warn him: he shall even die in his sins, because his righteousness shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

But now, O Lord our God, deliver us from his hands, that every kingdom of the earth may know that thou art God alone.

He shall give blessings truly to Jacob, and mercy to Abraam, as thou swarest to our fathers, according to the former days.

Thou scatterest for me the weapons of war: and I will scatter nations by thee, and will destroy kings by means of thee.

As for their choice ornaments, they employed them for pride, and they made of them images of their abominations: therefore have I made them uncleanness to them.

O God of my salvation; and I will not cease blessing thee with the psaltery all the days of my life before the house of God.

In those days, and at that time, they shall seek for the iniquity of Israel, and there shall be none; and for the sins of Juda, and they shall not be found: for I will be merciful to them that are left

For the artificer chooses out a wood that will not rot, and will wisely enquire how he shall set up his image, and that so that it should not be moved.

Egypt is a fair heifer, but destruction from the north is come upon her.

This is the living creature which I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chobar; and I knew that they were cherubs.

that they may walk in my commandments, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.

They shall fall with him in the midst of them that are slain with the sword, and all his strength shall perish: the giants also shall say to thee,

In that day there shall be upon the bridle of every horse Holiness to the Lord Almighty; and the caldrons in the house of the Lord shall be as bowls before the altar.

Lift up thine eyes, O Jerusalem, and behold them that come from the north; where is the flock that was given thee, the sheep of thy glory?

that they may see, and know, and perceive, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord has wrought these works, and the Holy One of Israel has displayed them.

And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

The four sides he measured by the same reed, and he marked out the house and the circumference of the parts round about, a space of five hundred cubits eastward, and a breadth of five hundred cubits, to make a division between the sanctuary and the outer wall, that belonged to the design of the house.

And they shall bring your brethren out of all nations for a gift to the Lord with horses, and chariots, in litters drawn by mules with awnings, to the holy city Jerusalem, said the Lord, as though the children of Israel should bring their sacrifices to me with psalms into the house of the Lord.

And their inhabited cities shall be laid utterly waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

In return for his service wherewith he served against Tyre, I have given him the land of Egypt; thus saith the Lord God:

We know, O Lord, our sins, and the iniquities of our fathers: for we have sinned before thee.

Ye have often seen, and have not taken heed; your ears have been opened, and ye have not heard.

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I am against your pillows, whereby ye there confound souls, and I will tear them away from your arms, and will set at liberty their souls which ye pervert to scatter them.

And there was another man prophesying in the name of the Lord, Urias the son of Samaeas of Cariathiarim; and he prophesied concerning this land according to all the words of Jeremias.

the beasts of the field shall bless me, the owls and young ostriches; for I have given water in the wilderness, and rivers in the dry land, to give drink to my chosen race,

And this shall be the domain of the captivity of the children of Israel, the land of the Chananites as far as Sarepta; and the captives of Jerusalem shall inherit as far as Ephratha; they shall inherit the cities of the south.

and should Noe, and Daniel, and Job, be in the midst of it, as I live, saith the Lord, there shall be left them neither sons nor daughters; only they by their righteousness shall deliver their souls.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Chelcias:

Know thou that their heart is ashes, and they err, and no one is able to deliver his soul: see, ye will not say, There is a lie in my right hand.

Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light? and is not this day gloom without brightness?

And the Lord's wrath shall return no more, until he have accomplished it, and until he have established it, according to the purpose of his heart: at the end of the days they shall understand it.

And thou tookest thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou borest, and didst sacrifice these to them to be destroyed. Thou didst go a-whoring as if that were little,

And it shall be for a sign to the Lord for ever in the land of Egypt: for they shall presently cry to the Lord by reason of them that afflict them, and he shall send them a man who shall save them; he shall judge and save them.

But Judea shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem to all generations.

As a garment defiled with blood shall not be pure, so neither shalt thou be pure; because thou hast destroyed my land, and hast slain my people: thou shalt not endure for ever, thou an evil seed.

Assemble yourselves and come; take counsel together, ye that escape of the nations: they that set up wood, even their graven image, have no knowledge, nor they who pray to gods that do not save.

And I will chase away from you the northern adversary, and will drive him away into a dry land, and I will sink his face in the former sea, and his back parts in the latter sea, and his ill savour shall come up, and his stink come up, because he has wrought great things.

And the cattle of the field have looked up to thee: for the fountains of waters have been dried up, and fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness.

And I will spread a net upon him, and he shall be caught in its snare.

Go forth of Babylon, thou that fleest from the Chaldeans: utter aloud a voice of joy, and let this be made known, proclaim it to the end of the earth; say ye, The Lord hath delivered his servant Jacob.

But the soul that sins shall die: and the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, nor shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the iniquity of the transgressor shall be upon him.

For thy sons whom thou hast lost shall say in thine ears, The place is too narrow for me: make room for me that I may dwell.

Neither shall there be there any more a child that dies untimely, or an old man who shall not complete his time: for the youth shall be a hundred years old, and the sinner who dies at a hundred years shall also be accursed:

Go up to Libanus, and cry; and utter thy voice to Basan, and cry aloud to the extremity of the sea: for all thy lovers are destroyed.

and hallow my sabbaths, and let them be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God.

Thy sons are the perplexed ones, that sleep at the top of every street as a half-boiled beet; they that are full of the anger of the Lord, caused to faint by the Lord God.

The people of Daedan were thy merchants, with choice cattle for chariots.

And I will make thee to this people as a strong brazen wall; and they shall fight against thee, but they shall by no means prevail against thee;

and great waters shall cover thee; and I shall bring thee down to them that go down to the pit, to the people of old time, and shall cause thee to dwell in the depths of the earth, as in everlasting desolation, with them that go down to the pit, that thou mayest not be inhabited, nor stand upon the land of life;

Will a man make gods for himself, whereas these are no gods?

and thou shalt say to them, Hear the word of the Lord, ye kings of Juda, and all Judea, and all Jerusalem, all who go in at these gates:

and I will betroth thee to myself in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord.

From the floor to the ceiling were cherubs and palm-trees carved.

that the sword may enter in upon Rabbath of the children of Ammon, and upon Judea, and upon Jerusalem in the midst thereof.

and they shall say to the men of their city, This our son is disobedient and contentious, he hearkens not to our voice, he is a reveler and a drunkard.

to love the Lord thy God, to hearken to his voice, and cleave to him; for this is thy life, and the length of thy days, that thou shouldest dwell upon the land, which the Lord sware to thy fathers, Abraam, and Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them.

and said, I will turn away my face from them, and will show what shall happen to them in the last days; for it is a perverse generation, sons in whom is no faith.

For he has given the law for a help, that they should not speak according to this word, concerning which there are no gifts to give for it.

Ye shall eat every clean bird.

If thou couldest bring me to their utmost boundaries, and if also thou knowest their paths;

And if the Lord thy God shall enlarge thy borders, as he said to thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh; if thy soul should desire to eat flesh, thou shalt eat flesh according to all the desire of thy soul.

Whensoever they shall go into the tabernacle of witness, they shall wash themselves with water, so they shall not die, whensoever they advance to the altar to do service and to offer the whole burnt-offerings to the Lord.

And I said to you, Ye have come as far as the mountain of the Amorite, which the Lord our God gives to you:

And the rest shall hear and fear, and do no more according to this evil thing in the midst of you.

Blessed be the Lord God, blessed be the Lord daily; and the God of our salvation shall prosper us. Pause.

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

But mine enemies live, and are mightier than I: and they that hate me unjustly are multiplied.

Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and shalt cleave to him, and shalt swear by his name.

But strangers shall dwell in his possessions: the last groaned for him, and wonder seized the first.

For the Lord will by no means reject the harmless man; but he will not receive any gift of the ungodly.

And they made a calf in Choreb, and worshipped the graven image,

Whence then is wisdom found? and of what kind is the place of understanding?

On the third day eleven calves, two rams, fourteen lambs of a year old without blemish.

How have they become desolate! suddenly they have failed: they have perished because of their iniquity.