Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the banquet house: since this is the end of every man; and the living man will apply good warning to his heart.

And thou shalt take thence a few in number, and shalt wrap them in the fold of thy garment.

My heart shall be found pure by my words; and the understanding of my lips shall meditate purity.

And thou shalt not spare a poor man in judgment.

And this is the due of the priests in the things coming from the people from those who offer sacrifices, whether it be a calf or a sheep; and thou shalt give the shoulder to the priest, and the cheeks, and the great intestine:

Yea, and whenever a fool walks by the way, his heart will fail him, and all that he thinks of is folly.

Their meat-offering shall be fine flour mingled with oil; three tenth deals for one calf, and two tenth deals for one ram:

And verily they would be heavier than the sand by the seashore: but, as it seems, my words are vain.

For the Lord most high is terrible; he is a great king over all the earth.

Whenever thou shalt vow a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools: pay thou therefore whatsoever thou shalt have vowed.

I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them?

And thou shalt speak my words to them, whether they will hear or fear: for it is a provoking house.

a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to pull down, and a time to build up;

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.

blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.

So the children of Israel gave to the Levites in their inheritance by the command of the Lord the cities and the country round.

And David and his men came into the city, and, behold, it was burnt with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters were carried captive.

And his father and his mother said to him, Are there no daughters of thy brethren, and is there not a woman of all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Sampson said to his father, Take her for me, for she is right in my eyes.

and they should go and serve other gods, and worship them, the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which he commanded thee not to do,

And I have seen foolish ones taking root: but suddenly their habitation was devoured.

Awake, psaltery and harp; I will awake early.

Be to me a protecting God, and a strong hold to save me: for thou art my fortress and my refuge.

Send forth thy light and thy truth: they have led me, and brought me to thy holy mountain, and to thy tabernacles.

GIMEL. Nay, serpents have drawn out the breasts, they give suck to their young, the daughters of my people are incurably cruel, as an ostrich in a desert.

we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows.

GIMEL. He has broken in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he has turned back his right hand from the face of the enemy, and has kindled a flame in Jacob as a fire, and it has devoured all things round about.

But if the sun be risen upon him, he is guilty, he shall die instead; and if a thief have nothing, let him be sold in compensation for what he has stolen.

What advantage is there to a man in all his labour that he takes under the sun?

And I examined whether my heart would excite my flesh as with wine, (though my heart guided me in wisdom,) and I desired to lay hold of mirth, until I should see of what kind is the good to the sons of men, which they should do under the sun all the days of their life.

So the city was besieged, until the eleventh year of king Sedekias,

My soul has thirsted for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do with all your heart return to the Lord, take away the strange gods from the midst of you, and the groves, and prepare your hearts to serve the Lord, and serve him only; and he shall deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.

GIMEL. Judea is gone into captivity by reason of her affliction, and by reason of the abundance of her servitude: she dwells among the nations, she has not found rest: all her pursuers have overtaken her between her oppressors.

Nay, against me has he turned his hand all the day.

Say to them, Every man throughout your generations, whoever of all your seed shall approach to the holy things, whatsoever the children of Israel shall consecrate to the Lord, while his uncleanness is upon him, that soul shall be cut off from me: I am the Lord your God.

What should be given to thee, and what should be added to thee, for thy crafty tongue?

Give not thy wealth to women, nor thy mind and living to remorse. Do all things with counsel: drink wine with counsel.

Let the mountains and the hills raise peace to thy people:

And it was so after some time that Cain brought of the fruits of the earth a sacrifice to the Lord.

And he was attached to the soul of Dina the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and he spoke kindly to the damsel.

but Baruch the son of Nerias sets thee against us, that thou mayest deliver us into the hands of the Chaldeans, to kill us, and that we should be carried away captives to Babylon.

For whereas thou hast instructed many, and hast strengthened the hands of the weak one,

Even a refuge to the slayer who has smitten a man unintentionally; and the cities shall be to you a refuge, and the slayer shall not be put to death by the avenger of blood, until he have stood before the congregation for judgment.

And now go, and thou shalt smite Amalec and Hierim and all that belongs to him, and thou shalt not save anything of him alive, but thou shalt utterly destroy him: and thou shalt devote him and all his to destruction, and thou shalt spare nothing belonging to him; and thou shalt slay both man and woman, and infant and suckling, and calf and sheep, and camel and ass.

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 he brought me up out of a pit of misery, and from miry clay: and he set my feet on a rock, and ordered my goings aright.

and gathered them out of the countries, from the east, and west, and north, and south.

because of their wickedness, which they have wrought to provoke me, by going to burn incense to other gods, whom ye knew not.

And an angel of the Lord appeared to the woman, and said to her, Behold, thou art barren and hast not born; yet thou shalt conceive a son.

God has taught me wisdom, and I know the knowledge of the holy.

And let the Lord thy God declare to us the way wherein we should walk, and the thing which we should do.

If he should have come in alone, he shall also go forth alone; and if his wife should have gone in together with him, his wife also shall go out.

When a man loves wisdom, his father rejoices: but he that keeps harlots will waste wealth.

A man of understanding trusteth in the law; and the law is faithful unto him, as an oracle.

May the Lord preserve him and keep him alive, and bless him on the earth, and not deliver him into the hands of his enemy.

And they have compassed me with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

Better also than both these is he who has not yet been, who has not seen all the evil work that is done under the sun.

And the lords of the Philistines said, Who are these that pass by? And Anchus said to the captains of the Philistines, Is not this David the servant of Saul king of Israel? He has been with us some time, even this second year, and I have not found any fault in him from the day that he attached himself to me even until this day.

and keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep the commandments and the ordinances and the judgments which are written in the law of Moses; that thou mayest understand what thou shalt do in all things that I command thee:

And Abram said, since thou hast given me no seed, but my home-born shall succeed me.

and the Lord has done it; because ye sinned against him, and hearkened not to his voice.

And Joshua made sharp knives of stone, and circumcised the children of Israel at the place called the Hill of Foreskins.

And thou shalt say to them, These are the burnt-offerings, all that ye shall bring to the Lord; two lambs of a year old without blemish daily, for a whole-burnt offering perpetually.

Sing to him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise.

A stone is heavy, and sand cumbersome; but a fool's wrath is heavier than both.

For thy weapons are fixed in me, and thou hast pressed thy hand heavily upon me.

And all the leaders of the king of Babylon went in, and sat in the middle gate, Marganasar, and Samagoth, and Nabusachar, and Nabusaris, Nagargas, Naserrabamath, and the rest of the leaders of the king of Babylon,

Let the day perish in which I was born, and that night in which they said, Behold a man-child!

But he advanced himself before them, and did reverence to the ground seven times, until he drew near to his brother.

Thou shalt have no other gods beside me.

Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do righteousness at all times.

For thus saith the Lord; This city shall certainly be delivered into the hands of the host of the king of Babylon, and they shall take it.

And this is the law of his uncleanness; whoever has a gonorrhoea out of his body, this is his uncleanness in him by reason of the issue, by which, his body is affected through the issue: all the days of the issue of his body, by which his body is affected through the issue, there is his uncleanness.

Glory in his holy name: let the heart of them that seek the Lord rejoice.

Every man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers abiding among you, who shall kill a calf, or a sheep, or a goat in the camp, or who shall kill it out of the camp,

As a whip for a horse, and a goad for an ass, so is a rod for a simple nation.

And he has erred in my judgment: my wound is severe without unrighteousness of mine.

And king Sedekias sent Joachal son of Selemias and Sophonias the priest son of Maasaeas to Jeremias, saying, Pray now for us to the Lord.

I was dumb, and humbled myself, and kept silence from good words; and my grief was renewed.

A bold man oppresses the poor by ungodly deeds. As an impetuous and profitable rain,

So I brought forth Jechonias the son of Jeremin the son of Chabasin, and his brethren, and his sons, and all the family of the Archabin;

And Moses went up to the mount of God, and God called him out of the mountain, saying, These things shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and thou shalt report them to the children of Israel.

Hope in the Lord, and do good; and dwell on the land, and thou shalt be fed with the wealth of it.

A house is built by wisdom, and is set up by understanding.

and the wilderness, and the country round about Jericho, the city of palm-trees, to Segor.

Who covers his chambers with waters; who makes the clouds his chariot; who walks on the wings of the wind.

and thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt certainly be taken, and shalt be given into his hands; and thine eyes shall see his eyes, and thou shalt enter into Babylon.

desire not his provisions; for these belong to a false life.

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?

For he has dealt craftily before him, to discover his iniquity and hate it.

Perhaps the house of Juda will hear all the evils which I purpose to do to them; that they may turn from their evil way; and so I will be merciful to their iniquities and their sins.

And I said, I will not drive them out from before you, but they shall be for a distress to you, and their gods shall be to you for an offence.

And his sons did not walk in his way; and they turned aside after gain, and took gifts, and perverted judgments.

And he lay down and slept there under a tree; and behold, some one touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat.

Therefore are my loins filled with feebleness, and pangs have seized me as a travailing woman: I dealt wrongfully that I might not hear; I hasted that I might not see.

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

Trust not in princes, nor in the children of men, in whom there is no safety.

and Sedekias shall by no means be delivered out of the hand of the Chaldeans, for he shall certainly be given up into the hands of the king of Babylon, and his mouth shall speak to his mouth, and his eyes shall look upon his eyes;

Cry to me, and I will answer thee, and I will declare to thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

and all the Jews that were with him in Massepha, and all the Chaldeans that were found there.