Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

And Joanan said to Godolias secretly in Massepha, I will go now and smite Ismael, and let no man know it; lest he slay thee, and all the Jews that are gathered to thee be dispersed, and the remnant of Juda perish.

Drink waters out of thine own vessels, and out of thine own springing wells.

But Ismael escaped with eight men and went to the children of Ammon.

that it might be for men to burn: and having taken part of it he warms himself; yea, they burn part of it, and bake loaves thereon; and of the rest they make for themselves gods, and they worship them.

Therefore his destruction shall come suddenly; overthrow and irretrievable ruin.

And the Lord said to me, Take yet to thee shepherd's implements belonging to an unskillful shepherd.

then hear the word of the Lord; thus saith the Lord;

therefore I came forth to meet thee, desiring thy face; and I have found thee.

until they bring the heirs, O inhabitant of Lachis: the inheritance shall reach to Odollam, even the glory of the daughter of Israel.

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.

I am the Lord God, your Holy One, who have appointed for Israel your king.

As fire which shall burn up a wood, as the flame may consume the mountains;

By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.

I will make desolate mountains and hills, and will dry up all their grass; and I will make the rivers islands, and dry up the pools.

Then all the men that knew that their wives burned incense, and all the women, a great multitude, and all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathura, answered Jeremias, saying,

calling to passers by, and to those that are going right on their ways;

The wealth of rich men is a strong city; but poverty is the ruin of the ungodly.

So they took Jonas, and cast him out into the sea: and the sea ceased from its raging.

For the day of the Lord is near upon all the Gentiles: as thou have done, so shall it be done to thee: thy recompense shall be returned on thine own head.

A bad man does harm wherever he meets a just man: and he hates the sound of safety.

And I will plant them on their land, and they shall no more be plucked up from the land which I have given them, saith the Lord God Almighty.

Behold, I have made thee as new saw-shaped threshing wheels of a waggon; and thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat the hills to powder, and make them as chaff:

Also the rim, and the bowls, and the flesh-hooks, and all the brazen vessels, wherewith they ministered;

The ways of fools are right in their own eyes; but a wise man hearkens to counsels.

Sound discretion gives favour, and to know the law is the part of a sound understanding: but the ways of scorners tend to destruction.

I will crush and smite the turreted-house upon the summer-house; and the ivory-houses shall be destroyed, and many other houses also, saith the Lord.

The simple believes every word: but the prudent man betakes himself to after-thought.

SAMECH. The Lord has cut off all my strong men from the midst of me: he has summoned against me a time for crushing my choice men: the Lord has trodden a wine-press for the virgin daughter of Juda: for these things I weep.

The eyes of the wicked are always looking for evil things; but the good are always quiet.

since all the nations are counted as a drop from a bucket, and as the turning of a balance, and shall be counted as spittle?

The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their light.

SAMECH. All that go by the way have clapped their hands at thee; they have hissed and shaken their head at the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this the city, they say, the crown of joy of all the earth?

Between the porch and the altar let the priests that minister to the Lord weep, and say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them, lest they should say among the heathen, Where is their God?

Better is a meek-spirited man with lowliness, than one who divides spoils with the proud.

the sorrow of my soul.

For, behold, the Lord will come as fire, and his chariots as a storm, to render his vengeance with wrath, and his rebuke with a flame of fire.

VAU. He has filled me with bitterness, he has drenched me with gall.

Why has the fool wealth? for a senseless man will not be able to purchase wisdom. He that exalts his own house seeks ruin; and he that turns aside from instruction shall fall into mischief.

The heart of the sensible man purchases discretion; and the ears of the wise seek understanding.

They were instructed by me, and I strengthened their arms; and they devised evils against me.

He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord; and he will recompense to him according to his gift.

A man's goings are directed of the Lord: how then can a mortal understand his ways?

I will go and return to my place, until they are brought to nought, and then shall they seek my face.

Blessed is the soul of him that feareth the Lord: to whom doth he look? and who is his strength?

A man that wanders out of the way of righteousness, shall rest in the congregation of giants.

But thou, O Israel, be not ignorant, and go ye not, men of Juda, to Galgala; and go not up to the house of On, and swear not by the living Lord.

He that oppresses the poor, increases his own substance, yet gives to the rich so as to make it less.

And I will sow her to me on the earth; and will love her that was not loved, and will say to that which was not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art the Lord my God.

Son, if thy heart be wise, thou shalt also gladden my heart;

SAMECH. Depart ye from the unclean ones: call ye them: depart, depart, touch them not: for they are on fire, yea, they stagger: say ye among the nations, They shall no more sojourn there.

And now, O Lord our God, who broughtest thy people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and madest to thyself a name, as at this day; we have sinned, we have transgressed.

Bring not an ungodly man into the dwelling of the righteous: neither be deceived by the feeding of the belly.

Judge not thy neighbour by thyself: and be discreet in every point.

As for me Daniel, my spirit in my body trembled, and the visions of my head troubled me.

The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

In long-suffering is prosperity to kings, and a soft tongue breaks the bones.

And Jeremias wrote in a book all the evils which should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.

And Ezekias prayed to the Lord, saying,

A sluggard having hid his hand in his bosom, will not be able to bring it up to his mouth.

I should have put down their enemies very quickly, and should have laid my hand upon those that afflicted them.

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.

And let not Ezekias say to you, That God will deliver you, and this city will not at all be delivered into the hand of the king of the Assyrians.

There has the hedgehog made its nest, and the earth has safely preserved its young: there have the deer met, and seen one another's faces.

and cause not thy mercy to depart from us, for thy beloved Abraham's sake, for thy servant Isaac's sake, and for thy holy Israel's sake;

On a stormy day drops of rain drive a man out of his house; so also does a railing woman drive a man out of his own house.

Then I passed through the air and came into the captivity, and went round to them that dwelt by the river of Chobar who were there; and I sat there seven days, conversant in the midst of them.

And at the end of the days, after which the king had given orders to bring them in, then the chief of the eunuchs brought them in before Nabuchodonosor.

A hungry lion and a thirsty wolf is he, who, being poor, rules over a poor nation.

He that walks in righteousness, speaking rightly, hating transgression and iniquity, and shaking his hands from gifts, stopping his ears that he should not hear the judgment of blood, shutting his eyes that he should not see injustice.

Thus said the Lord; Behold, evils are proceeding from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind goes forth from the end of the earth.

And he said to me, Behold, I have given thee dung of oxen instead of man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy loaves upon it.

until the Spirit shall come upon you from on high, and Chermel shall be desert, and Chermel shall be counted for a forest.

But concerning the five thousand that remain in the breadth in the five and twenty thousand, they shall be a suburb to the city for dwelling, and for a space before it: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.

And these are the borders of the land that lies northward, from the great sea that comes down, and divides the entrance of Emaseldam;

And thou shalt be mourned over and miserable among the nations round about thee, when I have executed judgments in thee in the vengeance of my wrath. I the Lord have spoken.

Stripes and reproofs give wisdom: but an erring child disgraces his parents.

Ye shall prepare the lamb, and the freewill-offering, and the oil in the morning, for a perpetual whole-burnt-sacrifice.

Thus saith the Lord, the Holy Lord of Israel; When thou shalt turn and mourn, then thou shalt be saved; and thou shalt know where thou wast, when thou didst trust in vanities: then your strength became vain, yet ye would not hearken:

The horse-leech had three dearly-beloved daughters: and these three did not satisfy her; and the fourth was not contented so as to say, Enough.

There shall be war with the sword without, and famine and pestilence within: he that is in the field shall die by the sword; and famine and pestilence shall destroy them that are in the city.

And one sheep from the flock out of ten, as an oblation from all the tribes of Israel, for sacrifices, and for whole-burnt-offerings, and for peace-offerings, to make atonement for you, saith the Lord God.

And the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and above the horns a cubit.

Woe to them that deepen their counsel, and not by the Lord. Woe to them that take secret counsel, and whose works are in darkness, and they say, Who has seen us? and who shall know us, or what we do?

These are the things which ye shall do; speak truth every one with his neighbour; judge truth and peaceable judgment in your gates:

And she rises by night, and gives food to her household, and appointed tasks to her maidens.

And he said to me, Son of man, thou hast seen; but thou shalt yet see evil practices greater then these.

So the measurement of the house within was accomplished: and he brought me forth by the way of the gate that looks eastward, and measured the plan of the house round about in order.

Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with Hades, and agreements with death; if the rushing storm should pass, it shall not come upon us: we have made falsehood our hope, and by falsehood shall we be protected:

bring more evils on the glorious ones of the earth.

That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and deficiency cannot be numbered.

Therefore shall the glory of the Lord be in the isles of the sea; the name of the Lord shall be glorious.

O God of hosts, turn, we pray thee: look on us from heaven, and behold and visit this vine;

And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have scattered them among the nations; and I will disperse them in the countries.

And he measured the length of the partition in front of the space left by the back parts of that house; and the spaces left on this side and on that side were in length a hundred cubits: and the temple and the corners and the outer porch were ceiled.

And I said in my heart, As the event of the fool is, so shall it be to me, even to me: and to what purpose have I gained wisdom? I said moreover in my heart, This is also vanity, because the fool speaks of his abundance.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be left seventy years, as the time of a king, as the time of a man: and it shall come to pass after seventy years, that Tyre shall be as the song of a harlot.

And I will accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that plaster it; it shall fall: and I said to you, The wall is not, nor they that plaster it,

And there were secret windows to the chambers, and to the porches within the gate of the court round about, and in the same manner windows to the porches round about within: and on the porch there were palm-trees on this side and on that side.

That which has been is now; and whatever things are appointed to be have already been; and God will seek out that which is past.