Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

THAU. Let all their wickedness come before thy face; and strip them, as they have made a gleaning for all my sins: for my groans are many, and my heart is grieved.

he that appoints princes to rule as nothing, and has made the earth as nothing.

They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord, for their number cannot at all be conjectured, for it exceeds the locust in multitude, and they are innumerable.

and they went in, and took it; but they hearkened not to thy voice, and walked not in thine ordinances; they did none of the things which thou didst command them, and they caused all these calamities to happen to them.

the children of Babylon, and all the Chaldeans, Phacuc, and Sue, and Hychue, and all the sons of the Assyrians with them; choice young men, governors and captains, all princes and renowned, riding on horses.

therefore ye shall not see false visions, and ye shall no more utter prophecies: but I will deliver my people out of your hand; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

How is the hammer of the whole earth broken and crushed! How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

Remove from me the sound of thy songs, and I will not hear the music of thine instruments.

And they shall work uncleanness: because the land is full of strange nations, and the city is full of iniquity.

Truly the hills and the strength of the mountains were a lying refuge: but by the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.

And by thee I will scatter the shepherd and his flock; and by thee I will scatter the husbandman and his husbandry; and by thee I will scatter leaders and the captains.

Chasten us, O Lord, but with judgment; and not in wrath, lest thou make us few.

And these shall attend at a judgment of blood to decide it: they shall rightly observe my ordinances, and judge my judgments, and keep my statutes and my commandments in all my feasts; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.

and they have not said in their heart, Let us fear now the Lord our God, who gives us the early and latter rain, according to the season of the fulfillment of the ordinance of harvest, and has preserved it for us.

According to their uncleannesses and according to their transgressions did I deal with them, and I turned away my face from them.

And thou shalt prepare a cake for the calf, and cakes for the ram, and a hin of oil for the cake.

And my servant David shall be a prince in the midst of them: there shall be one shepherd of them all; for they shall walk in mine ordinances, and keep my judgments, and do them.

And he said to me, These are the cooks' houses, where they that serve the house shall boil the sacrifices of the people.

I beheld the mountains, and they trembled, and I saw all the hills in commotion.

Behold, a multitude is come against the city to take it; and the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans that fight against it, by the power of the sword, and the famine: as thou hast spoken, so has it happened.

And I will take you out from the nations, and will gather you out of all the lands, and will bring you into your own land:

but let him that boasts boast in this, the understanding and knowing that I am the Lord that exercise mercy, and judgment, and righteousness, upon the earth; for in these things is my pleasure, saith the Lord.

And from the borders of Benjamin, from the eastern parts to the western, Symeon, one.

But shame has consumed the labours of our fathers from our youth; their sheep and their calves, and their sons and their daughters.

and I the Lord will be to them a God, and David a prince in the midst of them; I the Lord have spoken it.

Son of man, they that inhabit the desolate places on the land of Israel say, Abram was one, and he possessed the land: and we are more numerous; to us the land is given for a possession.

she has extended her ways over the waters of the desert; she was hurried along by the lusts of her soul; she is given up to them, who will turn her back? none that seek her shall be weary; at the time of her humiliation they shall find her.

There is Aelam and all his host round about his tomb: all the slain that fell by the sword, and the uncircumcised that go down to the deep of the earth, who caused their fear to be upon the land of the living: and they have received their punishment with them that go down to the pit,

And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword into his hand: and he shall bring it upon Egypt, and shall take her plunder and seize her spoils.

So I scattered them as sticks carried by the wind into the wilderness.

And they shall go forth, and see the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched; and they shall be a spectacle to all flesh.

And there shall no more be in the house of Israel a thorn of bitterness and a pricking briar proceeding from them that are round about them, who dishonoured them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will hearken to them; while they are yet speaking, I will say, What is it?

bringing for merchandise blue, and choice stores bound with cords, and cypress wood.

And Jezekiel shall be for a sign to you: according to all that I have done shall ye do, when these things shall come; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

And it shall come to pass, if ye will hearken to me, saith the Lord, to carry in no burdens through the gates of this city on the sabbath-day, and to sanctify the sabbath-day, so as to do no work upon it,

And they all shall come upon thee from the north, chariots and wheels, with a multitude of nations, shields and targets; and the enemy shall set a watch against thee round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall take vengeance on thee with their judgments.

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, As I have said, so it shall be: and as I have purposed, so the matter shall remain:

Son of man, say to her, Thou art the land that is not rained upon, neither has rain come upon thee in the day of wrath;

Therefore thus saith the Lord, Because ye have caused your iniquities to be remembered, in the discovery of your wickedness, so that your sins should be seen, in all your wickedness and in your evil practices; because ye have caused remembrance of them, in these shall ye be taken.

because they kept not mine ordinances, and rejected my commandments, and profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes went after the imaginations of their fathers.

Will any one take spoils from a giant? and if one should take a man captive unjustly, shall he be delivered?

But when the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, according to all the transgressions which the transgressor has wrought, none of his righteousness which he has wrought shall be at all remembered: in his trespass wherein he has trespassed, and in his sins wherein he has sinned, in them shall he die.

As I live, saith the Lord, though Jechonias son of Joakim king of Juda were indeed the seal upon my right hand, thence would I pluck thee;

And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord that bring low the high tree, and exalt the low tree, and wither the green tree, and cause the dry tree to flourish: I the Lord have spoken, and will do it.

And the floors shall be filled with corn, and the presses shall overflow with wine and oil.

saying, Righteousness and glory shall come to him: and all that remove them from their borders shall be ashamed.

that thou didst build thyself a house of fornication, and didst make thyself a public place in every street;

And to Samaeas the Aelamite thou shalt say,

But let judgment roll down as water, and righteousness as an impassable torrent.

Shall any one hide himself in secret places, and I not see him? Do I not fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.

Neither hast thou purchased for me victims for silver, neither have I desired the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou didst stand before me in thy sins, and in thine iniquities.

For what did he give to Jacob up to spoil, and Israel to them that plundered him? Did not God do it against whom they sinned? and they would not walk in his ways, nor hearken to his law.

For there shall no more be any false vision, nor any one prophesying flatteries in the midst of the children of Israel.

In that day shall Israel be third with the Egyptians and the Assyrians, blessed in the land which the Lord of hosts has blessed,

whence ye are, and whence is your works: they have chosen you an abomination out of the earth.

And the Spirit took me up, and brought me to the land of the Chaldeans, to the captivity, in a vision by the Spirit of God: and I went up after the vision which I saw.

For they shall not plant, neither shall they sow, neither shall their root be fixed in the ground: he has blown upon them, and they are withered, and a storm shall carry them away like sticks.

The daughter of Egypt is confounded; she is delivered into the hands of a people from the north.

They shall come upon thee, and thou shalt not know it, Babylon, that thou wilt even be taken captive: thou art found and taken, because thou didst resist the Lord.

And I will turn back the boasting of their strength; and their holy things shall be defiled.

And I will recompense to Babylon and to all the Chaldeans that dwell there all their mischiefs that they have done to Sion before your eyes, saith the Lord.

For thou hast reproached the Lord by messengers; for thou hast said, With the multitude of chariots have I ascended to the height of mountains, and to the sides of Libanus; and I have cropped the height of his cedars and the beauty of his cypresses; and I entered into the height of the forest region:

Then the Spirit came upon me, and set me on my feet, and spoke to me, and said to me, Go in, and shut thyself up in the midst of thine house.

And I heard the sound of their wings when they went, as the sound of much water: and when they stood, their wings were let down.

Nevertheless the hand of Achicam son of Saphan was with Jeremias, to prevent his being delivered into the hands of the people, or being killed.

And the people dwelling among them shall by no means say, I am in pain: for their sin shall be forgiven them.

Your bulls and your oxen that till the ground, shall eat chaff mixed with winnowed barley.

In that day, saith the Lord Almighty, I will take thee, O Zorobabel, the son of Salathiel, my servant, saith the Lord, and will make thee as a seal: for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord Almighty.

The Lord is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I wait for him.

And they that erred in spirit shall know understanding, and the murmurers shall learn obedience, and the stammering tongues shall learn to speak peace.

Damascus is utterly weakened, she is put to flight; trembling has seized upon her.

Will the ploughman plough all the day? or will he prepare the seed beforehand, before he tills the ground?

And the captain of the guard took the chief priest, and the second priest, and those that kept the way;

And the king and his servants that heard all these words sought not the Lord, and rent not their garments.

And Jeremias said to the people, and to the women, Hear ye the word of the Lord.

and upon Carioth, and upon Bosor, and upon all the cities of Moab, far and near.

And every one that is glorious in the house of his father shall trust in him, from the least to the greatest; and they shall depend upon him in that day.

and all the mingled people lodging in the wilderness,

The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return, until he shall execute it, and until he shall establish the purpose of his heart: in the latter days ye shall know these things.

And there shall be dwellers in the cities of Juda, and in all his land, together with the husbandman, and the shepherd shall go forth with the flock.

two leaves to the one, and two leaves to the other door.

We have heard the report of them: our hands are weakened: anguish has seized us, the pangs as of a woman in travail.

And he brought me to the south side, and behold a gate looking southwards: and he measured it, and its chambers, and its posts, and its porches, according to these dimensions.

Then the king said to him, Let no man know any of these words, and certainly thou shalt not die.

And ye shall offer them before the Lord, and the priests shall sprinkle salt upon them, and shall offer them up as whole-burnt-offerings to the Lord.

But they hearkened not to me, and their ear gave no heed, but they walked in the imaginations of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward;

This is the public service of the family of Gedson, to minister and to bear.

Because the sinner praises himself for the desires of his heart; and the unjust one blesses himself.

For princes sat and spoke against me: but thy servant was meditating on thine ordinances.

Thus saith the Lord that redeems thee, and who formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that performs all things: I stretched out the heaven alone, and established the earth.

This has been done of the Lord; and it is wonderful in our eyes.

All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim, were one hundred and eight thousand and one hundred: they with their forces shall set out third.

And when Moses finished writing all the words of this law in a book, even to the end,

Wherefore men shall fear him; and the wise also in heart shall fear him.