Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

And the house of Israel lamented her seven days: and before she died, she did distribute her goods to all them that were nearest of kindred to Manasses her husband, and to them that were the nearest of her kindred.

For he created all things, that they might have their being: and the generations of the world were healthful; and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor the kingdom of death upon the earth:

He was made to reprove our thoughts.

And blessed is the eunuch, which with his hands hath wrought no iniquity, nor imagined wicked things against God: for unto him shall be given the special gift of faith, and an inheritance in the temple of the Lord more acceptable to his mind.

For his soul pleased the Lord: therefore hasted he to take him away from among the wicked.

For the hope of the ungodly is like dust that is blown away with the wind; like a thin froth that is driven away with the storm; like as the smoke which is dispersed here and there with a tempest, and passeth away as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a day.

Whoso seeketh her early shall have no great travail: for he shall find her sitting at his doors.

For she is a treasure unto men that never faileth: which they that use become the friends of God, being commended for the gifts that come from learning.

I shall set the people in order, and the nations shall be subject unto me.

For the thoughts of mortal men are miserable, and our devices are but uncertain.

And left him not in bonds, till she brought him the sceptre of the kingdom, and power against those that oppressed him: as for them that had accused him, she shewed them to be liars, and gave him perpetual glory.

For whom they respected with scorn, when he was long before thrown out at the casting forth of the infants, him in the end, when they saw what came to pass, they admired.

Fill Sion with thine unspeakable oracles, and thy people with thy glory:

Neither shall king or tyrant be able to set his face against thee for any whom thou hast punished.

Or made it like some vile beast, laying it over with vermilion, and with paint colouring it red, and covering every spot therein;

For by the vain glory of men they entered into the world, and therefore shall they come shortly to an end.

And all the enemies of thy people, that hold them in subjection, are most foolish, and are more miserable than very babes.

A man indeed killeth through his malice: and the spirit, when it is gone forth, returneth not; neither the soul received up cometh again.

But they sleeping the same sleep that night, which was indeed intolerable, and which came upon them out of the bottoms of inevitable hell,

For while all things were in quiet silence, and that night was in the midst of her swift course,

For the Sodomites did not receive those, whom they knew not when they came: but these brought friends into bondage, that had well deserved of them.

To fear the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and it was created with the faithful in the womb.

Woe unto you that have lost patience! and what will ye do when the Lord shall visit you?

For the relieving of thy father shall not be forgotten: and instead of sins it shall be added to build thee up.

They that serve her shall minister to the Holy One: and them that love her the Lord doth love.

Be not called a whisperer, and lie not in wait with thy tongue: for a foul shame is upon the thief, and an evil condemnation upon the double tongue.

A faithful friend is a strong defence: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.

Use not many words in a multitude of elders, and make not much babbling when thou prayest.

Go not to law with a judge; for they will judge for him according to his honour.

As near as thou canst, guess at thy neighbour, and consult with the wise.

The Lord hath cast down the thrones of proud princes, and set up the meek in their stead.

Prosperity and adversity, life and death, poverty and riches, come of the Lord.

For a while he will abide with thee, but if thou begin to fall, he will not tarry.

Every beast loveth his like, and every man loveth his neighbour.

Defraud not thyself of the good day, and let not the part of a good desire overpass thee.

He himself made man from the beginning, and left him in the hand of his counsel;

Make way for every work of mercy: for every man shall find according to his works.

Their ways are ever before him, and shall not be hid from his eyes.

My son, blemish not thy good deeds, neither use uncomfortable words when thou givest any thing.

Admonish thy friend, it may be he hath not said it: and if he have, that he speak it not again.

The gift of a fool shall do thee no good when thou hast it; neither yet of the envious for his necessity: for he looketh to receive many things for one.

The inner parts of a fool are like a broken vessel, and he will hold no knowledge as long as he liveth.

As timber girt and bound together in a building cannot be loosed with shaking: so the heart that is stablished by advised counsel shall fear at no time.

Remember thy father and thy mother, when thou sittest among great men. Be not forgetful before them, and so thou by thy custom become a fool, and wish that thou hadst not been born, and curse they day of thy nativity.

I was exalted like a palm tree in En-gaddi, and as a rose plant in Jericho, as a fair olive tree in a pleasant field, and grew up as a plane tree by the water.

A silent and loving woman is a gift of the Lord; and there is nothing so much worth as a mind well instructed.

The talk of him that sweareth much maketh the hair stand upright; and their brawls make one stop his ears.

Whoso hearkeneth unto it shall never find rest, and never dwell quietly.

An honest man is surety for his neighbour: but he that is impudent will forsake him.

Better is the poor, being sound and strong of constitution, than a rich man that is afflicted in his body.

For a man's mind is sometime wont to tell him more than seven watchmen, that sit above in an high tower.

For they shall also pray unto the Lord, that he would prosper that, which they give for ease and remedy to prolong life.

And give ye a sweet savour as frankincense, and flourish as a lily, send forth a smell, and sing a song of praise, bless the Lord in all his works.

While he openeth his hand he shall rejoice: so shall transgressors come to nought.

Let them that dwell about Sion come, and remember ye the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting hath brought upon them.

My children, keep discipline in peace: for wisdom that is hid, and a treasure that is not seen, what profit is in them both?

Better is the churlishness of a man than a courteous woman, a woman, I say, which bringeth shame and reproach.

Through this the treasures are opened: and clouds fly forth as fowls.

Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.

Their sacrifices shall be wholly consumed every day twice continually.

By the law of the Lord he judged the congregation, and the Lord had respect unto Jacob.

How wise wast thou in thy youth and, as a flood, filled with understanding!

He did wonders in his life, and at his death were his works marvellous.

But upon the earth was no man created like Enoch; for he was taken from the earth.

And finishing the service at the altar, that he might adorn the offering of the most high Almighty,

I prayed for her before the temple, and will seek her out even to the end.

And ye shall read this book which we have sent unto you, to make confession in the house of the Lord, upon the feasts and solemn days.

Hear our prayers, O Lord, and our petitions, and deliver us for thine own sake, and give us favour in the sight of them which have led us away:

Learn where is wisdom, where is strength, where is understanding; that thou mayest know also where is length of days, and life, where is the light of the eyes, and peace.

He hath also in his right hand a dagger and an axe: but cannot deliver himself from war and thieves.

So when they were gone out, they parted the one from the other, and turning back again they came to the same place; and after that they had asked one another the cause, they acknowledged their lust: then appointed they a time both together, when they might find her alone.

For not as with other nations, whom the Lord patiently forbeareth to punish, till they be come to the fulness of their sins, so dealeth he with us,

So when he was ready to die he said thus, It is good, being put to death by men, to look for hope from God to be raised up again by him: as for thee, thou shalt have no resurrection to life.

and I will praise thee continually all the days of my life: for all the hosts of the heavens sings to thee, and thine is the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

The Lord hath plucked up the roots of the proud nations, and planted the lowly in their place.

For in the division of the nations of the whole earth he set a ruler over every people; but Israel is the Lord's portion:

All flesh consorteth according to kind, and a man will cleave to his like.

Thy soul covered the whole earth, and thou filledst it with dark parables.

And there was none that made the children of Israel any more afraid in the days of Judith, nor a long time after her death.

An enemy speaketh sweetly with his lips, but in his heart he imagineth how to throw thee into a pit: he will weep with his eyes, but if he find opportunity, he will not be satisfied with blood.

Even from the flower till the grape was ripe hath my heart delighted in her: my foot went the right way, from my youth up sought I after her.

But before he died he heard of the destruction of Nineve, which was taken by Nabuchodonosor and Assuerus: and before his death he rejoiced over Nineve.

Do not the tears run down the widow's cheeks? and is not her cry against him that causeth them to fall?

He took also Arphaxad in the mountains of Ragau, and smote him through with his darts, and destroyed him utterly that day.

Who hath found out her place? or who hath come into her treasures?

A heart settled upon a thought of understanding is as a fair plaistering on the wall of a gallery.

And above all this pray to the most High, that he will direct thy way in truth.

I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, which present the prayers of the saints, and which go in and out before the glory of the Holy One.

But for the foolish devices of their wickedness, wherewith being deceived they worshipped serpents void of reason, and vile beasts, thou didst send a multitude of unreasonable beasts upon them for vengeance;

Thou hast saved thy life, in that thou hast hasted to come down to the presence of our lord: now therefore come to his tent, and some of us shall conduct thee, until they have delivered thee to his hands.

So she took the head out of the bag, and shewed it, and said unto them, behold the head of Holofernes, the chief captain of the army of Assur, and behold the canopy, wherein he did lie in his drunkenness; and the Lord hath smitten him by the hand of a woman.

I will now remember the works of the Lord, and declare the things that I have seen: In the words of the Lord are his works.

He stretched out his hand to the cup, and poured of the blood of the grape, he poured out at the foot of the altar a sweetsmelling savour unto the most high King of all.

Give testimony unto those that thou hast possessed from the beginning, and raise up prophets that have been in thy name.

They that fear the Lord will not disobey his Word; and they that love him will keep his ways.

And had ashes on their mitres, and cried unto the Lord with all their power, that he would look upon all the house of Israel graciously.

For if he will not help us within these five days, he hath power to defend us when he will, even every day, or to destroy us before our enemies.

Then the people fell down and worshipped God, and cried unto God. saying,

He giveth little, and upbraideth much; he openeth his mouth like a crier; to day he lendeth, and to morrow will he ask it again: such an one is to be hated of God and man.