Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

Take up arms and spears, and draw nigh to battle;

and I will adjure thee by the Lord the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou take not a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Chananites, with whom I dwell, in the midst of them.

Hear, therefore, O Israel, and observe to do them, that it may be well with thee, and that ye may be greatly multiplied, as the Lord God of thy fathers said that he would give thee a land flowing with milk and honey: and these are the ordinances, and the judgments, which the Lord commanded the children of Israel in the wilderness, when they had gone forth from the land of Egypt.

For the Lord is a great God, and a great king over all gods: for the Lord will not cast off his people.

Publish his glory among the Gentiles, his wonderful works among all people.

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

And the water subsided, and went off the earth, and after an hundred and fifty days the water was diminished, and the ark rested in the seventh month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

Thou hast traced my path and my bed, and hast foreseen all my ways.

He has remembered his mercy to Jacob, and his truth to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

So Adoni-bezec king of Jerusalem sent to Elam king of Hebron, and to Phidon king of Jerimuth, and to Jephtha king of Lachis, and to Dabin king of Odollam, saying,

thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and justice, and rescue the spoiled out of the hand of him that wrongs him: and oppress not the stranger, and orphan, and widow, and sin not, and shed no innocent blood in this place.

Hast thou not taken account even of him, and caused him to enter into judgment before thee?

How long shall sinners, O Lord, how long shall sinners boast?

And Solomon answered all her questions: and there was not a question overlooked by the king which he did not answer her.

And the man went up from year to year from his city, from Armathaim, to worship and sacrifice to the Lord God of Sabaoth at Selom: and there were Heli and his two sons Ophni and Phinees, the priests of the Lord.

And he says to him, I am the God of thy fathers; fear not to go down into Egypt, for I will make thee there a great nation.

And the lamp of God was burning before it was trimmed, and Samuel slept in the temple, where was the ark of God.

Because I kept silence, my bones waxed old, from my crying all the day.

And I will smite all the dwellers in this city, both men and cattle, with grievous pestilence: and they shall die.

And I will gather in the remnant of my people in every land, whither I have driven them out, and will set them in their pasture; and they shall increase and be multiplied.

For I also was a son obedient to my father, and loved in the sight of my mother:

What! is there any reason in vain words? or what will hinder thee from answering?

and thou shalt say to them, Hear ye the word of the Lord, ye kings of Juda, and men of Juda, and the dwellers in Jerusalem, and they that enter in by these gates; thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, so that the ears of every one that hears it shall tingle.

To him who along has wrought great wonders: for his mercy endures for ever.

And Abraam stood up from before his dead; and Abraam spoke to the sons of Chet, saying,

For there they that had taken us captive asked of us the words of a song; and they that had carried us away asked a hymn, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Sion.

The Lord thy God who goes before thee, he shall destroy these nations before thee, and thou shalt inherit them: and it shall be Joshua that goes before thy face, as the Lord has spoken.

The rivers have lifted up, O Lord, the rivers have lifted up their voices,

And Samuel died, and all Israel lamented for him, and they bury him in his city, in Armathaim. And Saul had removed those who had in them divining spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.

Bring forth a sword, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say to my soul, I am thy salvation.

And Araba as far as the sea of Chenereth eastward, and as far as the sea of Araba; the salt sea eastward by the way to Asimoth, from Thaeman under Asedoth Phasga.

at the sound of his rushing, at the sound of his hoofs, and at the rattling of his chariots, at the noise of his wheels: the fathers turned not to their children because of the weakness of their hands,

And the children of Israel cried to the Lord, because he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed Israel twenty years.

And David dwelt with Anchus, he and his men, each with his family; and David and both his wives, Achinaam, the Jezraelitess, and Abigaia the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

Nevertheless I will speak to the Lord, and I will reason before him, if he will.

Praise ye the Lord; for the Lord is good: sing praises to his name; for it is good.

And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt report to this people all these words, and they shall say to thee, Wherefore has the Lord pronounced against us all these evils? what is our unrighteousness? and what is our sin which we have sinned before the Lord our God?

But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord shall be.

And Joseph said to his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him, for they were troubled.

to proclaim thy mercy in the morning, and thy truth by night,

For he shall deliver thee from the snare of the hunters, from every troublesome matter.

And I will deliver them up for distress to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasses son of Ezekias king of Juda, for all that he did in Jerusalem.

But I also have a heart as well as you.

As the dew of Aermon, that comes down on the mountains of Sion: for there, the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for ever.

And her nobles have sent their little ones to the water: they came to the wells, and found no water: and brought back their vessels empty.

Turn not man back to his low place, whereas thou saidst, Return, ye sons of men?

then will I establish the throne of thy kingdom in Israel for ever, as I spoke to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to rule in Israel.

And Saul encamped in the hill of Echela in front of Jessemon, by the way, and David dwelt in the wilderness: and David saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.

May the Lord, who made heaven and earth, bless thee out of Sion.

And I will bring back all the people to thee, as a bride returns to her husband: only thou seekest the life of one man, and all the people shall have peace.

And the inhabitants of Gabaon heard of all that the Lord did to Jericho and Gai.

then shalt thou hear them from heaven, out of thine established dwelling-place, and thou shalt do according to all that the stranger shall call upon thee for, that all the nations may know thy name, and fear thee, as do thy people Israel, and may know that thy name has been called on this house which I have builded.

So I went to the river Euphrates, and dug, and took the girdle out of the place where I had buried it: and, behold, it was rotten, utterly good for nothing.

Be not a speaker of many words; for is there none to answer thee?

O Lord, teach me, and I shall know: then I saw their practices.

Let my prayer come in before thee; incline thine ear to my supplication, O Lord.

I will not go into the tabernacle of my house; I will not go up to the couch of my bed;

But thou, Lord, knowest me; thou hast proved my heart before thee; purify them for the day of their slaughter.

And Abraam rose up in the morning and saddled his ass, and he took with him two servants, and Isaac his son, and having split wood for a whole-burnt-offering, he arose and departed, and came to the place of which God spoke to him,

The morning dawned, and the men were sent away, they and their asses.

Speak, thou that art the elder, for it becometh thee, but with sound judgment; and hinder not musick.

For thou hast said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy truth shall be established in the heavens.

Glorious things have been spoken of thee, O city of God. Pause.

And Booz said to the relative, The matter regards the portion of the field which was our brother Elimelech's which was given to Noemin, now returning out of the land of Moab;

The son of Naber in Raboth Galaad, to him fell the lot of Ergab in Basan, sixty great cities with walls, and brazen bars, one.

For the customs of the nations are vain; it is a tree cut out of the forest, the work of the carpenter, or a molten image.

They are all gone out of the way, they are together become good for nothing, there is none that does good, no not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace they have not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes.

And I have given thee what thou hast not asked, wealth and glory, so that there has not been any one like thee among kings.

And of clean flying creatures of the sky sevens, male and female, and of all unclean flying creatures pairs, male and female, to maintain seed on all the earth.

Let Israel hope in the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.

Beware ye each of his neighbour, and trust ye not in your brethren: for every one will surely supplant, and every friend will walk craftily.

to make their land a desolation, and a perpetual hissing; all that go through it shall be amazed, and shall shake their heads.

The five lordships of the Phylistines, and every Chananite, and the Sidonian, and the Evite who dwelt in Libanus from the mount of Aermon to Laboemath.

from twenty-five years old and upward until fifty years, every one that goes in to minister, to do all the works in the tabernacle of witness.

These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests whom they consecrated to the priesthood.

If thou, O Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

And Judas spoke to him, saying, The man, the lord of the country, positively testified to us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, unless your younger brother be with you.

But do thou wash, and anoint thyself, and put thy raiment upon thee, and go up to the threshing-floor: do not discover thyself to the man until he has done eating and drinking.

Thou hast forgiven thy people their transgressions; thou has covered all their sins. Pause.

But whereas ye have trusted in lying words, whereby ye shall not be profited;

Hearken, I pray you, and hear: will they not speak thus, There is no man that repents of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? the runner has failed from his course, as a tired horse in his neighing.

Thou shalt not eat leaven with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread with it, bread of affliction, because ye came forth out of Egypt in haste; that ye may remember the day of your coming forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

Is it good before thee if I be unrighteous? for thou hast disowned the work of thy hands, and attended to the counsel of the ungodly.

And the man's name was Nabal, and his wife's name was Abigaia: and his wife was of good understanding and very beautiful in person: but the man was harsh, and evil in his doings, and the man was churlish.

For if he would enter into judgment with him, God would not hearken to him, so that he should answer to one of his charges of a thousand.

The sinners wrought upon my back: they prolonged their iniquity.

They rose up against Moses and Aaron, and said, Let it be enough for you that all the congregation are holy, and the Lord is among them; and why do ye set up yourselves against the congregation of the Lord?

O Lord, thine eyes are upon faithfulness: thou hast scourged them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them; but they would not receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; and they would not return.

And I allowed my wrath to come to full, yet I kept it in, and did not utterly destroy them: I will pour it out on the children without, and on the assembly of young men together: for man and woman shall be taken together, the old man with him that is full of days.

My soul longs, and faints for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh have exulted in the living god.

The Lord did not make this covenant with your fathers, but with you: ye are all here alive this day.

then Moab feared the people exceedingly because they were many; and Moab was grieved before the face of the children of Israel.

At that time they shall say to this people and to Jerusalem, There is a spirit of error in the wilderness: the way of the daughter of my people is not to purity, nor to holiness.

And Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm some of you, and set yourselves in array before the Lord against Madian, to inflict vengeance on Madian from the Lord.

Pity me, O Lord: for to thee will I cry all the day.

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine on the sides of thy house: thy children as young olive-plants round about thy table.

And thou didst retain many shepherds for a stumbling-block to thyself: thou hadst a whore's face, thou didst become shameless toward all.

the great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders.

Will the Lord be unjust when he judges; or will he that has made all things pervert justice?