Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

And it shall be as soon as ye are gone over Jordan, ye shall set up these stones, which I command thee this day, on mount Gaebal, and thou shalt plaster them with plaster.

And Joas said to the priests, As for all the money of the holy things that is brought into the house of the Lord, the money of valuation, as each man brings the money of valuation, all the money which any man may feel disposed to bring into the house of the Lord,

Thy neck is as an ivory tower; thine eyes are as pools in Esebon, by the gates of the daughter of many: thy nose is as the tower of Libanus, looking toward Damascus.

And he said to the first in my hearing, Go after him into the city, and smite: and let not your eyes spare, and have no mercy.

Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man.

Speak not in thine heart, when the Lord thy God has destroyed these nations before thy face, saying, For my righteousness the Lord brought me in to inherit this good land.

Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.

And, behold, the glory of the Lord God of Israel was there, according to the vision which I saw in the plain.

And the saying was right in the eyes of Abessalom, and in the eyes of all the elders of Israel.

The righteous Lord has cut asunder the necks of sinners.

Yea verily, I have erred in truth, (but the error abides with myself) in having spoken words which it was not right to speak; and my words err, and are unreasonable.

Wilt thou maintain and plead thine own cause? and will he enter into judgment with thee?

My kinsman put forth his hand by the hole of the door, and my belly moved for him.

And Gedeon came to Jordan, and went over, himself and the three hundred with him, hungry, yet pursuing.

But if thou wilt not send my people away, behold, at this hour to-morrow I will bring an abundance of locusts upon all thy coasts.

And your altars shall be broken to pieces, and your consecrated plats; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

then he that offers his gift to the Lord shall bring a meat-offering of fine flour, a tenth part of an ephah mingled with oil, even with the fourth part of a hin.

Hast thou not known these things of old, from the time that man was set upon the earth?

And thou shalt take of these again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them up with fire: from thence shall come forth fire; and thou shalt say to the whole house of Israel,

the inhabitant of the land: the time is come, the day has drawn nigh, not with tumult, nor with pangs.

And a traveller came to the rich man, and he spared to take of his flocks and of his herds, to dress for the traveller that came to him; and he took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that came to him.

The tree which thou sawest, that grew large and strong, whose height reached to the sky and its extent to all the earth;

I have charged you, ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the virtues of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

And Saul eyed David from that day and onward.

And they laid hands upon her, and went in by the way of the horses' entrance into the house of the Lord, and she was slain there.

And the Lord said to Moses, Take all the princes of the people, and make them examples of judgment for the Lord in the face of the sun, and the anger of the Lord shall be turned away from Israel.

And God made to spring up also out of the earth every tree beautiful to the eye and good for food, and the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of learning the knowledge of good and evil.

saying, I have not sinned, nor committed ungodliness, nor had fellowship with workers of iniquity, to go with the ungodly.

And the Lord testified against Israel and against Juda, even by the hand of all his prophets, and of every seer, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my ordinances, and all the law which I commanded your fathers, and all that I sent to them by the hand of my servants the prophets.

And the day came, and Helkana sacrificed, and gave portions to his wife Phennana and her children.

but he shall judge the cause of the lowly, and shall reprove the lowly of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the word of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he destroy the ungodly one.

And thou shalt carry forth thy baggage, baggage for captivity, by day before their eyes: and thou shalt go forth at even, as a captive goes forth, in their sight.

and I will stretch thee upon the earth: the fields shall be covered with thee, and I will cause all the birds of the sky to settle upon thee, and I will fill with thee all the wild beasts of the earth.

And the sons of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasse, took their inheritance.

Anger has possessed thee: for what if thou shouldest die; would the earth under heaven be desolate? or shall the mountains be overthrown from their foundations?

As arrows in the hand of a mighty man; so are the children of those who were outcasts.

It was as a little while after I parted from them, that I found him whom my soul loves: I held him, and did not let him go, until I brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

And he said to me, Son of man, go thy way, and go in to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them.

And I will make a marvellous distinction in that time between the cattle of the Egyptians, and the cattle of the children of Israel: nothing shall die of all that is of the children's of Israel.

They shall be afraid, but I will trust in thee.

and I said, I will inform thee, saying, Buy it before those that sit, and before the elders of my people: if thou wilt redeem it, redeem it, but if thou wilt not redeem it, tell me, and I shall know; for there is no one beside thee to do the office of a kinsman, and I am after thee: and he said, I am here, I will redeem it.

And David sent messengers, and took her, and went in to her, and he lay with her: and she was purified from her uncleanness, and returned to her house.

Turn, O Lord, our captivity, as the steams in the south.

And Jacob said to them, Brethren, whence are ye? and they said, We are of Charrhan.

Bring me into the wine house; set love before me.

And thou, son of man, hear him that speaks to thee; be not thou provoking, as the provoking house: open thy mouth, and eat what I give thee.

And Arphaxad lived a hundred and thirty-five years, and begot Cainan.

And I looked, and, behold, a sweeping wind came from the north, and a great cloud on it, and there was brightness round about it, and gleaming fire, and in the midst of it as it were the appearance of amber in the midst of the fire, and brightness in it.

And thou shalt lie upon thy left side, and lay the iniquities of the house of Israel upon it, according to the number of the hundred and fifty days during which thou shalt lie upon it: and thou shalt bear their iniquities.

Do good, O Lord, to them that are good, and to them that are upright in heart.

because of the voice of the enemy, and because of the oppression of the sinner: for they brought iniquity against me, and were wrathfully angry with me.

We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold to us for a burden on our neck:

And Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and said, Pray for me to the Lord, and let him take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will send them away, and they shall sacrifice to the Lord.

They have drawn thee: we will run after thee, for the smell of thine ointments: the king has brought me into closet: let us rejoice and be glad in thee; we will love thy breasts more than wine: righteousness loves thee.

And Eleazar shall take of her blood, and sprinkle of her blood seven times in front of the tabernacle of witness.

DALETH. The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of its mouth for thirst: the little children ask for bread, and there is none to break it to them.

And the children of Israel did so, and sent them out of the camp: as the Lord said to Moses, so did the children of Israel.

He sent from heaven and saved me; he gave to reproach them that trampled on me: God has sent forth his mercy and his truth;

and it be told thee, and thou shalt have enquired diligently, and, behold, the thing really took place, this abomination has been done in Israel;

And he went in, and, behold, the captains of the host were sitting; and he said, I have a message to thee, O captain. And Ju said, To which of all us? And he said, To thee, O captain.

and they shall shut the doors in the market-place, because of the weakness of the voice of her that grinds at the mill; and he shall rise up at the voice of the sparrow, and all the daughters of song shall be brought low;

He shall promise mischief to his companions: but their eyes have failed for their children.

verily the water would have drowned us, our soul would have gone under the torrent.

O God, hear my prayer; hearken to the words of my mouth.

And may he give thee the blessing of my father Abraam, even to thee and to thy seed after thee, to inherit the land of thy sojourning, which God gave to Abraam.

He that observes the wind sows not; and he that looks at the clouds will not reap.

And Pharao will not hearken to you, and I will lay my hand upon Egypt; and will bring out my people the children of Israel with my power out of the land of Egypt with great vengeance.

DALETH. He has bent his bow as an opposing enemy: he has strengthened his right hand as an adversary, and has destroyed all the desirable things of my eyes in the tabernacle of the daughter of Sion: he has poured forth his anger as fire.

And the Lord said to Gedeon, I will save you by the three hundred men that lapped, and I will give Madiam into thy hand; and all the rest of the people shall go every one to his place.

And the Lord said to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread upon you out of heaven: and the people shall go forth, and they shall gather their daily portion for the day, that I may try them whether they will walk in my law or not.

He has made old my flesh and my skin; he has broken my bones.

If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for soothing will put an end to great offences.

And the man of God said, Where did it fall? and he shewed him the place: and he broke off a stick, and threw it in there, and the iron came to the surface.

on the ninth day of the month, and then the famine was severe in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hands, and shall set it before the altar of the Lord thy God:

They have all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, there is not even one.

And if a woman shall vow a vow to the Lord, or bind herself with an obligation in her youth in her father's house; and her father should hear her vows and her obligations, wherewith she has bound her soul, and her father should hold his peace at her, then all her vows shall stand,

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: I became thoroughly miserable while a thorn was fastened in me. Pause.

I also will speak as ye do: if indeed your soul were in my soul's stead,

DALETH. The ways of Sion mourn, because there are none that come to the feast: all her gates are ruined: her priests groan, her virgins are led captive, and she is in bitterness in herself.

for who is he that has fellowship with all the living? there is hope of him: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

And I established my covenant with them, to give them the land of the Chananites, the land wherein they sojourned, in which also they dwelt as strangers.

And it shall come to pass when he lies down, that thou shalt mark the place where he lies down, and shalt come and lift up the covering of his feet, and shalt lie down; and he shall tell thee what thou shalt do.

after he had smitten Seon king of the Amorites who dwelt in Esebon, and Og the king of Basan who dwelt in Astaroth and in Edrain;

And Annon took the servants of David, and shaved their beards, and cut off their garments in the midst as far as their haunches, and sent them away.

even as a king having power: and who will say to him, What doest thou?

But let there be a distance between you and it; ye shall stand as much as two thousand cubits from it. Do not draw nigh to it, that ye may know the way which ye are to go; for ye have not gone the way before.

And Jonathan spoke favorably concerning David to Saul his father, and said to him, Let not the king sin against thy servant David, for he has not sinned against thee, and his deeds are very good.

yet I sent to you my servants the prophets early in the morning, and I sent, saying, Do not ye this abominable thing which I hate.

thy tongue has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened razor thou hast wrought deceit.

Yea, our soul has been exceedingly filled with it: let the reproach be to them that are at ease, and contempt to the proud.

And Jonathan said to David, What does thy soul desire, and what shall I do for thee.

Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that fears the Lord.

And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do ye, Moses and Aaron, turn the people from their works? depart each of you to your works.

and make me meats, as I like them, and bring them to me that I may eat, that my soul may bless thee, before I die.

Prepare what to say, and so thou shalt be heard: and bind up instruction, and then make answer.

Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart will be made better.

For he came in vanity, and departs in darkness, and his name shall be covered in darkness.

And they go out to Selmona, and issue at the valley of Egypt; and the termination of its boundaries shall be at the sea: these are their boundaries southward.

And Jeremias said to them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray for you to the Lord our God, according to your words; and it shall come to pass, that whatsoever word the Lord God shall answer, I will declare it to you; I will not hide anything from you.