Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

Watching care will not let a man slumber, as a sore disease breaketh sleep,

abandoned for ever, to be a fold and resting-place for flocks, and there shall be none to go after them.

And David went up thither to Chebron, he and both his wives, Achinaam the Jezraelitess, and Abigaia the wife of Nabal the Carmelite,

And he came to the king's gate, and stood; for it was not lawful for him to enter into the palace, wearing sackcloth and ashes.

Grieve for yourselves; for even Debon, where your altar is, shall be destroyed: thither shall ye go up to weep, over Nabau of the land of Moab: howl ye: baldness shall be on every head, and all arms shall be wounded.

And their borders were from the south as far as a part of the salt sea from the high country that extends southward.

a people great and many and tall, the sons of Enac, whom thou knowest, and concerning whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Enac?

And all the tribes of Israel stood before the Lord in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.

And the Gentiles shall take them, and bring them into their place: and they shall inherit them, and they shall be multiplied upon the land for servants and handmaidens: and they that took them captives shall become captives to them; and they that had lordship over them shall be under their rule.

Then the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one another.

and Moses said to Aaron, Take to thyself a young calf of the herd for a sin-offering, and a ram for a whole-burnt-offering, unblemished, and offer them before the Lord.

And the king took the ring which he had taken away from Aman, and gave it to Mardochaeus: and Esther appointed Mardochaeus over all that had been Aman's.

He that walks blameless, and works righteousness, who speaks truth in his heart.

And she conceived and bore a son again; and called his name, Aunan.

Lo! lords, turn aside to the house of your servant, and rest from your journey, and wash your feet, and having risen early in the morning ye shall depart on your journey. And they said, Nay, but we will lodge in the street.

Speak therefore secretly in the ears of the people, and let every one ask of his neighbour jewels of silver and gold, and raiment.

What beginning or fear is hiseven he that makes all things in the highest?

Behold, my God is my Saviour; I will trust in him, and not be afraid: for the Lord is my glory and my praise, and is become my salvation.

In the place where they slay the whole-burnt-offering, they shall slay the ram of the trespass-offering before the Lord, and he shall pour out the blood at the bottom of the altar round about.

I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall be continually in my mouth.

And all in the palace did him obeisance, for so the king had given orders to do: but Mardochaeus did not do him obeisance.

And ye shall make no covenant with them that dwell in this land, neither shall ye worship their gods; but ye shall destroy their graven images, ye shall pull down their altars: but ye hearkened not to my voice, for ye did these things.

Speak to the congregation of the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Ye shall be holy; for I the Lord your God am holy.

And Aaron stretched forth his hand over the waters of Egypt, and brought up the frogs: and the frog was brought up, and covered the land of Egypt.

Rescue me, O Lord, from the evil man; deliver me from the unjust man.

and all the land of Ephraim and Manasse, and all the land of Juda to the farthest sea;

If however thou wilt not send my people away, but yet detainest them:

And they departed from Raphidin, and came into the wilderness of Sina, and there Israel encamped before the mountain.

perverting the cause of the poor, violently wresting the judgment of the needy ones of my people, that the widow may be a prey to them, and the orphan a spoil.

and the Spirit of God shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and godliness shall fill him;

Lift up a standard on the mountain of the plain, exalt the voice to them, beckon with the hand, open the gates, ye rulers.

He was to me a helper and protector for salvation: this is my God and I will glorify him; my father's God, and I will exalt him.

Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising: thou understandest my thoughts long before.

And make me witnesses of faithful men, Urias, and Zacharias the son of Barachias.

And it came to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came from the camp, from the people of Saul, and his garments were rent, and earth was upon his head: and it came to pass when he went in to David, that he fell upon the earth, and did obeisance to him.

And take to thyself thy brethren the tribe of Levi, the family of thy father, and let them be joined to thee, and let them minister to thee; and thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness.

Then the servants of the king said, Let there be sought for the king chaste and beautiful young virgins.

I will worship toward thy holy temple, and give thanks to thy name, on account of thy mercy and thy truth; for thou hast magnified thy holy name above every thing.

And a message was brought to the house of David, saying, Aram has conspired with Ephraim. And his soul was amazed, and the soul of his people, as in a wood a tree is moved by the wind.

Naas the Ammanite said to them, On these terms will I make a covenant with you, that I should put out all your right eyes, and I will lay a reproach upon Israel.

We hung our harps on the willows in the midst of it.

that thou shalt take of the first of the fruits of thy land, which the Lord thy God gives thee, and thou shalt put them into a basket, and thou shalt go to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to have his name called there.

And seraphs stood round about him: each one had six wings: and with two they covered their face, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew.

And I made a hedge round it, and dug a trench, and planted a choice vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and dug a place for the wine-vat in it: and I waited for it to bring forth grapes, and it brought forth thorns.

O people walking in darkness, behold a great light: ye that dwell in the region and shadow of death, a light shall shine upon you.

And it shall come to pass in the day when ye shall cross over Jordan into the land which the Lord thy God gives thee, that thou shalt set up for thyself great stones, and shalt plaster them with plaster.

Hear my prayer, O God, when I make my petition to thee; deliver my soul from fear of the enemy.

And the king went up to the house of the Lord, he and all Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that were found in the house of the Lord.

and the shawls to be worn in the house, and the Spartan transparent dresses,

That soul which shall touch any unclean thing, or carcase, or that which is unclean being taken of beasts, or the dead bodies of abominable reptiles which are unclean, or carcases of unclean cattle,

They inherited according to their lots, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Joshua to the nine tribes and the half tribe, on the other side of Jordan.

Give thanks to the God of gods; for his mercy endures for ever.

For in the last days the mountain of the Lord shall be glorious, and the house of God shall be on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall come to it.

And in that day God shall shine gloriously in counsel on the earth, to exalt and glorify the remnant of Israel.

And it came to pass when Saul returned from pursuing after the Philistines, that it was reported to him, saying, David is in the wilderness of Engaddi.

And enter not into judgment with thy servant, for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

And sons were born to David in Chebron: and his first-born was Ammon the son of Achinoom the Jezraelitess.

My hands formed a musical instrument, and my fingers tuned a psaltery.

And his concubine departed from him, and went away from him to the house of her father to Bethleem Juda, and she was there four months.

Only for the sake of the generations of Israel, to teach them war, only the men before them knew them not.

It is a journey of eleven days from Choreb to mount Seir as far as Cades Barne.

Avenge the wrongs of the children of Israel on the Madianites, and afterwards thou shalt be added to thy people.

in those days, when king Artaxerxes was on the throne in the city of Susa,

Because he has inclined his ear to me, therefore will I call upon him while I live.

And now is not Booz our kinsman, with whose damsels thou wast? behold, he winnows barley this night in the floor.

who stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God.

He sends messengers by the sea, and paper letters on the water: for swift messengers shall go to a lofty nation, and to a strange and harsh people. Who is beyond it? a nation not looked for, and trodden down.

Who raised up righteousness from the east, and called it to his feet, so that it should go? shall appoint it an adversary of Gentiles, and shall dismay kings, and bury their swords in the earth, and cast forth their bows and arrows as sticks?

According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so spoke Nathan to David.

And now, behold, the king goes before you; and I am grown old and shall rest; and, behold, my sons are among you; and, behold, I have gone about before you from my youth to this day.

Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whatsoever woman shall have conceived and born a male child shall be unclean seven days, she shall be unclean according to the days of separation for her monthly courses.

then it shall come to pass, if the unrighteous should be worthy of stripes, thou shalt lay him down before the judges, and they shall scourge him before them according to his iniquity.

and fire came forth from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.

Speak to the children of Israel, and take rods of them, according to the houses of their families, a rod from all their princes, according to the houses of their families, twelve rods, and write the name of each on his rod.

And she conceived, and bore a male child; and having seen that he was fair, they hid him three months.

how he sware to the Lord, and vowed to the God of Jacob, saying,

I would take thee, I would bring thee into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me; I would make thee to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranates.

And he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the thrones of the kings that were with him in Babylon;

I sleep, but my heart is awake: the voice of my kinsman knocks at the door, saying, Open, open to me, my companion, my sister, my dove, my perfect one: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

And the princes of Israel brought gifts, twelve princes of their fathers' houses: these were the heads of tribes, these are they that presided over the numbering.

And he sent Heliakim the steward, and Somnas the scribe, and the elders of the priests, clothed with sackcloth, to Esaias the prophet the son of 30.

I shall have sinned if I have not been humble, but have exulted my soul: according to the relation of a weaned child to his mother, so wilt thou recompense my soul.

And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel: he has even fulfilled with his hands as he spoke with his mouth to my father David, saying,

Thy teeth are as flocks of shorn sheep, that have gone up from the washing; all of them bearing twins, and there is not a barren one among them.

But my feet were almost overthrown; my goings very nearly slipped.

It is as ointment on the head, that ran down to the beard, even the beard of Aaron; that ran down to the fringe of his clothing.

and if thou has hast numbered the full months of their being with young, and if thou hast relieved their pangs:

I will rise now, and go about in the city, in the market-places, and in the streets, and I will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not.

Speak to the children of Israel, and let them turn and encamp before the village, between Magdol and the sea, opposite Beel-sepphon: before them shalt thou encamp by the sea.

Thy navel is as a turned bowl, not wanting liquor; thy belly is as a heap of wheat set about with lilies.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy breasts are better than wine.

Seon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Esebon, ruling from Arnon, which is in the valley, on the side of the valley, and half of Galaad as far as Jaboc, the borders of the children of Ammon.

male and female he made them, and blessed them; and he called his name Adam, in the day in which he made them.

And he restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother; and his mother said, I had wholly consecrated the money to the Lord out of my hand for my son, to make a graven and a molten image, and now I will restore it to thee.

And he lifted up his eyes and beheld, and lo! three men stood before him; and having seen them he ran to meet them from the door of his tent, and did obeisance to the ground.

And it came to pass after three days, that the scribes went through the camp;

And as to the women and all things that were in it, great and small, they slew neither man nor woman, but carried them captives, and went on their way.

While the sun and light are not darkened, nor the moon and the stars; nor the clouds return after the rain:

As a lily among thorns, so is my companion among the daughters.