Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

My flesh is corrupt under my skin, and my bones are held in my teeth.

And Heli blessed Helcana and his wife, saying The Lord recompense to thee seed of this woman, in return for the loan which thou hast lent to the Lord: and the man returned to his place.

And Aod went in to him; and he sat in his own upper summer chamber quite alone; and Aod said, I have a message from God to thee, O king: and Eglom rose up from his throne near him.

How abundant is the multitude of thy goodness, O Lord, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee! thou hast wrought it out for them that hope on thee, in the presence of the sons of men.

Thou didst make darkness, and it was night; in it all the wild beasts of the forest will be abroad:

God shall hear, and bring them low, even he that has existed from eternity. Pause. For they suffer no reverse, and therefore they have not feared God.

And to the families, even the sons of Caath the Levites, that were left of the sons of Caath, there was given their priests' city,

But his flesh is in pain, and his soul mourns.

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

For he has looked out from the height of his sanctuary; the Lord looked upon the earth from heaven;

And Saul said, Thus shall ye speak to David, The king wants no gift but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to avenge himself on the kings enemies. Now Saul thought to cast him into the hands of the Philistines.

Keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I have hoped in thee.

And Jessae took a homer of bread, and a bottle of wine, and one kid of the goats, and sent them by the hand of his son David to Saul.

the king of Symoon, the king of Mambroth, the king of Aziph,

But thou, O Lord, remove not my help afar off: be ready for mine aid.

And Sisara said to her, Stand now by the door of the tent, and it shall come to pass if any man come to thee, and ask of thee, and say, Is there any man here? then thou shalt say, There is not.

And it came to pass when the time was come, that she brought forth a son, and called his name Samuel, and said, Because I asked him of the Lord God of Sabaoth.

And Gaal son of Jobel came, and his brethren, and passed by Sicima, and the men of Sicima trusted in him.

And all the people returned safe to Joshua to Makeda; and no one of the children of Israel murmured with his tongue.

And Mardochaeus wrote these things in a book, and sent them to the Jews, as many as were in the kingdom of Artaxerxes, both them that were near and them that were afar off,

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

And now let not my blood fall to the ground before the Lord, for the king of Israel has come forth to seek thy life, as the night hawk pursues its prey in the mountains.

And the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground in the prison-house.

When he has fallen sick, let him not hope to recover: but let him perish by disease.

And Saul instantly fell at his full length upon the earth, and was greatly afraid because of the words of Samuel; and there was no longer any strength in him, for he had eaten no bread all that day, and all that night.

And Elisaie died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites came into the land, at the beginning of the year.

In famine he shall deliver thee from death: and in war he shall free thee from the power of the sword.

And his terror is in his ears: just when he seems to be at peace, his overthrow will come.

And Banaeas the son of Jodae, he was abundant in mighty deeds, from Cabeseel, and he smote the two sons of Ariel of Moab: and he went down and smote a lion in the midst of a pit on a snowy day.

And Jordan shall be their boundary on the east: this is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, these are their borders round about according to their families.

And from the morning to evening they no longer exist: they have perished, because they cannot help themselves.

And the men of Baethsamys said, Who shall be able to pass before this holy Lord God? and to whom shall the ark of the Lord go up from us?

and if too I rejoiced when my wealth was abundant, and if too I laid my hand on innumerable treasures:

And Abessalom her brother said to her, Has thy brother Amnon been with thee? now then, my sister, be silent, for he is thy brother: be not careful to mention this matter. So Themar dwelt as a widow in the house of her brother Abessalom.

And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in many waters, and thy footsteps cannot be known.

And he took all the flocks, and the herds, and led them away before the spoils: and it was said of these spoils, These are the spoils of David.

Thou didst sit and speak against thy brother, and didst scandalize thy mother's son.

Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let mine eye weep before him.

The king sent and loosed him; even the prince of the people, and let him go free.

And it was near the time of vintage: and their tools were valued at three shekels for a plough-share, and there was the same rate for the axe and the sickle.

And Saul said to Samuel, Because I listened to the voice of the people: yet I went the way by which the Lord sent me, and I brought Agag the king of Amalec, and I destroyed Amalec.

And Aminadab begot Naasson; and Naasson begot Salmon.

But grant me two things: then I will not hide myself from thy face.

And Manaem raised the silver by a tax upon Israel, even on every mighty man in wealth, to give to the king of the Assyrians, fifty shekels levied on each man; and the king of the Assyrians departed, and remained not there in the land.

The stars from heaven set themselves in array, they set themselves to fight with Sisara out of their paths.

And they gave Chebron to Chaleb, as Moses said; and thence he inherited the three cities of the children of Enac.

As the dream of one awakening, O Lord, in thy city thou wilt despise their image.

Our soul waits on the Lord; for he is our helper and defender.

Now Esther had not discovered her kindred; for so Mardochaeus commanded her, to fear God, and perform his commandments, as when she was with him: and Esther changed not her manner of life.

For the sinners shall perish; and the enemies of the Lord at the moment of their being honoured and exalted have utterly vanished like smoke.

And he said to her, Rise, and let us go; and she answered not, for she was dead: and he took her upon his ass, and went to his place.

Lo! did not Achar the son of Zara commit a trespass taking of the accursed thing, and there was wrath on the whole congregation of Israel? and he himself died alone in his own sin.

And in her time she was at the point of death; and the women that stood by her, said to her, Fear not, for thou hast born a son: but she answered not, and her heart did not regard it.

and Baethphogor, and Asedoth Phasga, and Baetthasinoth,

And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should ruin or destroy.

Tell it not in Geth, and tell it not as glad tidings in the streets of Ascalon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

For his desire is in his house with him, and the number of his months has been suddenly cut off.

Forasmuch as he smote the rock, and the waters flowed, and the torrents ran abundantly; will he be able also to give bread, or prepare a table for his people?

And the servants of Abessalom came to the woman into the house, and said, Where are Achimaas and Jonathan? and the woman said to them, They are gone a little way beyond the water. And they sought and found them not, and returned to Jerusalem.

And Samuel brought nigh all the tribes of Israel, and the tribe of Benjamin is taken by lot.

And the angel of God said to him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and put them on that rock, and pour out the broth close by: and he did so.

This is the dealing of the Lord with those who falsely accuse me, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

And Saul sent messengers to take David, and they saw the assembly of the prophets, and Samuel stood as appointed over them; and the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they prophesy.

And Samuel said to the people, Fear not: ye have indeed wrought all this iniquity; only turn not from following the Lord, and serve the Lord with all your heart.

And Abessalom said to Achitophel, Deliberate among yourselves concerning what we should do.

And Noemin said to her daughter-in-law, Blessed is he of the Lord, because he has not failed in his mercy with the living and with the dead: and Noemin said to her, The man is near akin to us, he is one of our relations.

Revealing deep things out of darkness: and he has brought into light the shadow of death.

For why is light given to those who are in bitterness, and life to those souls which are in griefs?

For even if I have sinned, I know it not in my soul: but my life is taken away.

And the wife of Sampson was given to one of his friends, with whom he was on terms of friendship.

And there was yet a battle in Geth: and there was a man of stature, and the fingers of his hands and the toes of his feet were six on each, four and twenty in number: and he also was born to Rapha.

And the king of Israel said, Take Michaias, and convey him away to Semer the keeper of the city;

So Job arose, and rent his garments, and shaved the hair of his head, and fell on the earth, and worshipped,

For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts to go forth to war against Israel, that they might be utterly destroyed, that mercy should not be granted to them, but that they should be utterly destroyed, as the Lord said to Moses.

But safety shall fail them; for their hope is destruction, and the eyes of the ungodly shall waste away.

This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Juda.

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

In order that this form of speech might come about it was that thy servant Joab has framed this matter: and my lord is wise as is the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.

He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them out of their destructions.

And Abenner came to David to Chebron, and with him twenty men: and David made for Abenner and his men with him a banquet of wine.

For the Lord looks down upon all men, who comprehends unsearchable things, glorious also and excellent things without number.

And let the law of the king which he shall have made, be widely proclaimed, in his kingdom: and so shall all the women give honour to their husbands, from the poor even to the rich.

and they changed their glory into the similitude of a calf that feeds on grass.

The Lord has remembered us, and blessed us: he has blessed the house of Israel, he has blessed the house of Aaron.

And he brought me into a wide place, and rescued me, because he delighted in me.

And I will shoot three arrows, aiming them at a mark.

And she said to them, Nay, do not call me Noemin; call me 'Bitter,' for the Mighty One has dealt very bitterly with me.

Arise, O Lord, let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged before thee.

And Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambuscade had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city went up to heaven; and they turned and smote the men of Gai.

The Lord preserves all that love him: but all sinners he will utterly destroy.

And David rose early in the morning, and left the sheep to a keeper, and took and went as Jessae commanded him, and he came to the trench and to the army as it was going out to ght, and they shouted for the battle.

O house of Levi, bless ye the Lord: ye that fear the Lord, bless the Lord.

Is not the time of my life short? suffer me to rest a little,

then it shall come to pass if the anger of the king shall arise, and he shall say to thee, Why did ye draw nigh to the city to fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from off the wall?

An we also will be like all the nations; and our king shall judge us, and shall go out before us, and fight our battles.

And David came from Upper Breaches, and smote the Philistines there: and David said, The Lord has destroyed the hostile Philistines before me, as water is dispersed; therefore the name of that place was called Over Breaches.

Look upon thy covenant: for the dark places of the earth are filled with the habitations of iniquity.

Bless the Lord, all ye his angels, mighty in strength, who perform his bidding, ready to hearken to the voice of his words.