Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

Also I will bind thy tongue, and thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: because it is a provoking house.

And they shall not take from thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for a foundation: for thou shalt be a desolation for ever, saith the Lord.

Hast thou not heard of these things which I did of old? I appointed them from ancient times; but now have I manifested my purpose of desolating nations in their strong holds, and them that dwell in strong cities.

Therefore hear ye the word of the Lord, all Jews dwelling in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the Lord, my name shall no longer be in the mouth of every Jew to say, The Lord lives, in all the land of Egypt.

And ye shall eat abundantly, and be satisfied, and shall praise the name of the Lord your God for the things which he has wrought wonderfully with you: and my people shall not be ashamed for ever.

but they hearkened not to me, and their ear gave no heed; and they made their neck harder than their fathers.

And from the borders of Issachar, from the eastern parts to the western, Zabulon, one.

There shall be woe upon woe, and there shall be message upon message; and a vision shall be sought from a prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

Therefore I awake, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet to me.

The Lord has made thee priest in the place of Jodae the priest, to be ruler in the house of the Lord over every prophet, and to every madman, and thou shalt put them in prison, and into the dungeon.

and they shall make atonement for the altar, and shall purge it; and they shall consecrate themselves.

For her times are come: open ye her storehouses: search her as a cave, and utterly destroy her: let there be no remnant of her.

And I will give you a new heart, and will put a new spirit in you: and I will take away the heart of stone out of your flesh, and will give you a heart of flesh.

And men shall come out of the cities of Juda, and from round about Jerusalem, and out of the land of Benjamin, and out of the plain country, and from the hill country, and from the south country, bringing whole-burnt-offerings, and sacrifices, and incense, and manna, and frankincense, bringing praise to the house of the Lord.

And thou didst go a-whoring after the children of Egypt thy neighbors, great of flesh; and didst go a-whoring, often to provoke me to anger.

Make ye him drunk; for he has magnified himself against the Lord: and Moab shall clap with his hand, and shall be also himself a laughing-stock.

And I will make with them a covenant of peace; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will establish my sanctuary in the midst of them for ever.

And they shall bear their reproach, and the iniquity which they committed when they dwelt upon their land in peace. Yet there shall be none to terrify them

Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Raephan, the images of them which ye made for yourselves.

and confirming the word of his servant, and verifying the counsel of his messengers: who says to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Idumea, Ye shall be built, and her desert places shall spring forth.

Lift up your eyes on high, and see, who has displayed all these things? even he that brings forth his host by number: he shall call them all by name by means of his great glory, and by the power of his might: nothing has escaped thee.

and all the kings from the north, the far and the near, each one with his brother, and all the kingdoms which are on the face of the earth.

How long shall these things be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, when they prophesy the purposes of their own heart?

And the king commanded Jeremeel the king's son, and Saraeas the son of Esriel, to take Baruch and Jeremias: but they were hidden.

There were laid Mosoch, and Thobel, and all his strength round about his tomb: all his slain men, all the uncircumcised, slain with the sword, who caused their fear to be in the land of the living.

Thou hast taken off the mitre and put on the crown, it shall not have such another after it: thou hast abased that which was high, and exalted that which was low.

Therefore shall the young men fall in thy streets, and all thy warriors shall fall, saith the Lord.

And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations, and utterly scatter them among the countries; and they all shall know that I am the Lord.

But do thou remember, and let us plead together: do thou first confess thy transgressions, that thou mayest be justified.

For among my people were found ungodly men; and they have set snares to destroy men, and have caught them.

I saw, and, behold, Carmel was desert, and all the cities were burnt with fire at the presence of the Lord, and at the presence of his fierce anger they were utterly destroyed.

And Balaam answered and said to Balac, Spoke I not to thee, saying, Whatsoever thing God shall speak to me, that will I do?

Thou shalt also speak to the Levites, and shalt say to them, If ye take the tithe from the children of Israel, which I have given you from them for an inheritance, then shall ye separate from it a heave-offering to the Lord, a tenth of the tenth.

I was not at peace, nor quiet, nor had I rest; yet wrath came upon me.

He made the brazen laver, and the brazen base of it of the mirrors of the women that fasted, who fasted by the doors of the tabernacle of witness, in the day in which he set it up.

Behold, I set before you this day the blessing and the curse;

and they went and served other gods, which they knew not, neither did he assign them to them.

And thou shalt anoint with it the tabernacle of witness, and the ark of the tabernacle of witness,

For Esebon is the city of Seon king of the Amorites; and he before fought against the king of Moab, and they took all his land, from Aroer to Arnon.

And thou shalt not bring an abomination into thine house, so shouldest thou be an accursed thing like it; thou shalt utterly hate it, and altogether abominate it, because it is an accursed thing.

For what flesh is there which has heard the voice of the living God, speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have heard, and shall live?

to rain upon the land where there is no man, the wilderness, where there is not a man in it; so as to feed the untrodden and uninhabited land,

And his brother shall serve in the tabernacle of witness to keep charges, but he shall not do works: so shalt thou do to the Levites in their charges.

And he quite destroys the ungodly, for they are seen before him.

And I will set his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.

Let them not say in their hearts, Aha, aha, it is pleasing to our soul: neither let them say, We have devoured him.

And he turned their heart to hate his people, to deal craftily with his servants.

Neither will your reproof cause me to cease my words, for neither will I endure the sound of your speech.

And let all darkness wait for him: a fire that burns not out shall consume him; and let a stranger plague his house.

And all the women to whom it seemed good in their heart in their wisdom, spun the goats' hair.

And the Lord because of you did not regard me, and hearkened not to me; and the Lord said to me, Let it suffice thee, speak not of this matter to me any more.

And over the forces of the tribe of the sons of Aser, was Phageel the son of Echran.

And your dead men shall be food to the birds of the sky, and to the beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to scare them away.

There is not any such as the God of the beloved; he who rides upon the heaven is thy helper, and the magnificent One of the firmament.

And does the hawk remain steady by thy wisdom, having spread out her wings unmoved, looking toward the region of the south?

And they put them on the two circlets, and they put them on the shoulders of the ephod opposite each other in front.

Man ate angels' bread; he sent them provision to the full.

I call heaven and earth this day to witness against you, that ye shall surely perish from off the land, into which ye go across Jordan to inherit it there; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall be utterly cut off.

On the fifth day nine calves, two rams, fourteen lambs of a year old without spot.

His ways are profane at all times; thy judgments are removed from before him: he will gain the mastery over all his enemies.

and the curtains of the court, and the veil of the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and the remainder of all its works.

And they murmured in their tents: they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord.

And he has run against him with insolence, on the thickness of the back of his shield.

And there were two men left in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Modad; and the spirit rested upon them, and these were of the number of them that were enrolled, but they did not come to the tabernacle; and they prophesied in the camp.

And thou shalt come to the grave like ripe corn reaped in its season, or as a heap of the corn-flour collected in proper time.

And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Separate yourselves from the tents of these stubborn men, and touch nothing that belongs to them, lest ye be consumed with them in all their sin.

But thou shalt take thy holy things, if thou hast any, and thy vowed-offerings, and come to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to have his name named upon it.

And all the curtains of the court which were upon the tabernacle of witness, and the appendages, and all the vessels of service that they minister with they shall attend to.

When he made them, thus he saw and numbered them, and made a way for the pealing of the thunder.

Take the book of this law, and ye shall put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God; and it shall be there among you for a testimony.

But if the slayer should in any wise go out beyond the bounds of the city whither he fled for refuge,

And the damsel has not committed a sin worthy of death; as if a man should rise up against his neighbour, and slay him, so is this thing;

His forces that were numbered, were sixty-two thousand and seven hundred.

and take Aaron's apparel from off him, and put it on Eleazar his son: and let Aaron die there and be added to his people.

Or again, is there a trace of their path left by ships? or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks its prey?

And thou shalt give the money for whatsoever thy soul shall desire, for oxen or for sheep, or for wine, or thou shalt lay it out on strong drink, or on whatsoever thy soul may desire, and thou shalt eat there before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt rejoice and thy house,

Behold, the Mighty One is great, and we shall not know him: the number of his years is even infinite.

And they returned from thence, having surveyed the land, after forty days.

Of the tribe of the sons of Issachar, the prince was Phaltiel the son of Oza.

Yet ye would not go up, but rebelled against the words of the Lord our God.

And I will establish thy judges as before, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: and afterward thou shalt be called the city of righteousness, the faithful mother-city of Sion.

Then shalt thou have boldness before the Lord, looking up cheerfully to heaven.

So is this great and wide sea: there are things creeping innumerable, small animals and great.

And God will stir up enemies against them, according to the stroke of Madiam in the place of affliction: and his wrath shall be by the way of the sea, even to the way that leads to Egypt.

And the priest shall take a handful of the sacrifice as a memorial of it, and shall offer it up upon the altar; and afterwards he shall cause the woman to drink the water.

Therefore shall he lift up a signal to the nations that are afar, and shall hiss for them from the end of the earth; and, behold, they are coming very quickly.

I became also a reproach to them: when they saw me they shook their heads.

Who gives food to all flesh; for his mercy endures for ever.

And all the ships come together would not be able to bear the mere skin of his tail; neither shall they carry his head in fishing-vessels.

And I prayed to God, and said, O Lord, King of gods, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, whom thou didst redeem, whom thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt with thy great power, and with thy strong hand, and with thy high arm.

My soul has cleaved to the ground; quicken thou me according to thy word.

For the sons of Issachar according to their kindreds, according to their divisions, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names, according to their polls, all males from twenty years old and upward, every one that goes forth with the host,

My praise is of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

He speaks, and the stormy wind arises, and its waves are lifted up.

And I sent ambassadors from the wilderness of Kedamoth to Seon king of Esebon with peaceable words, saying,