Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

And his armour-bearer saw that Saul was dead, and he fell also himself upon his sword, and died with him.

If thou shouldest fix thine eye upon him, he will disappear; for wings like an eagle's are prepared for him, and he returns to the house of his master.

And they shall speak of the glorious majesty of thy holiness, and recount thy wonders.

And the Lord gave deliverance to Israel, and they escaped from under the hand of Syria: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents as heretofore.

But he was wounded on account of our sins, and was bruised because of our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and by his bruises we were healed.

Then Azarias stood up, and prayed on this manner; and opening his mouth in the midst of the fire said,

we have done iniquity, we have transgressed, and we have departed and turned aside from thy commandments and from thy judgments:

Thistles and snares are in perverse ways; but he that keeps his soul will refrain from them.

And Daniel purposed in his heart, that he would not defile himself with the king's table, nor with the wine of his drink: and he intreated the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

And they shall cover the face of the earth, and thou shalt not be able to see the earth; and they shall devour all that is left of the abundance of the earth, which the hail has left you, and shall devour every tree that grows for you on the land.

and the instruction of the Lord, even the Lord, opens mine ears, and I do not disobey, nor dispute.

And thou shalt measure outside the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and your city shall be in the midst of this, and the suburbs of the cities as described.

And if brethren should live together, and one of them should die, and should not have seed, the wife of the deceased shall not marry out of the family to a man not related: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and shall take her to himself for a wife, and shall dwell with her.

O Lord, bow thy heavens, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

And now, thus saith the Lord that formed me from the womb to be his own servant, to gather Jacob to him and Israel. I shall be gathered and glorified before the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.

And a river proceeds out of Edem to water the garden, thence it divides itself into four heads.

Without iniquity I ran and directed my course aright: awake to help me, and behold.

My righteousness speedily draws nigh, and my salvation shall go forth as light, and on mine arm shall the Gentiles trust: the isles shall wait for me, and on mine arm shall they trust.

And from the borders of Manasse, from the eastern parts as far as the west coasts, for Ephraim, one.

And when they have shouted, the walls of the city shall fall of themselves; and all the people shall enter, each one rushing direct into the city.

Sing to God, sing praises to his name: make a way for him that rides upon the west (the Lord is his name) and exult before him. They shall be troubled before the face of him,

He that gathers treasures with a lying tongue pursues vanity on to the snares of death.

and again he measured a thousand; and he could not pass through: for the water rose as of a torrent which men cannot pass over.

Take of them, and they shall be for the works of the services of the tabernacle of witness: and thou shalt give them to the Levites, to each one according to his ministration.

And Sampson and his father and his mother went down to Thamnatha, and he came to the vineyard of Thamnatha; and behold, a young lion roared in meeting him.

And Galaad took the fords of Jordan before Ephraim; and they that escaped of Ephraim said to them, Let us go over: and the men of Galaad said, Art thou an Ephrathite? and he said, No.

Or is thy life human, or thy years the years of a man,

Yet answer a fool according to his folly, lest he seem wise in his own conceit.

and a freewill-offering, a meat-offering for the ram, and a meat-offering for the lambs, the gift of his hand, and a hin of oil for the meat-offering.

a time to throw stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to abstain from embracing;

The one way was northward to one coming to Machmas, and the other way was southward to one coming to Gabae.

all these Joshua circumcised; for forty and two years Israel wondered in the wilderness of Mabdaris

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

And I will break to pieces the bars of Damascus, and will destroy the inhabitants out of the plain of On, and will cut in pieces a tribe out of the men of Charrhan: and the famous people of Syria shall be led captive, saith the Lord.

Sit thou down pierced with woe, go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: thou shalt no more be called the strength of a kingdom.

And the Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the house of the Lord was full of glory.

all the days of his separation:a razor shall not come upon his head, until the days be fulfilled which he vowed to the Lord: he shall be holy, cherishing the long hair of the head,

There is a companion, which helpeth his friend for the belly, and taketh up the buckler against the enemy.

if I have requited with evil those who requited me with good; may I then perish empty by means of my enemies.

Every one who hates his poor brother shall also be far from friendship. Good understanding will draw near to them that know it, and a sensible man will find it. He that does much harm perfects mischief; and he that used provoking words shall not escape.

And God fixed a limit, saying, To-morrow the Lord will do this thing on the land.

We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt freely; and the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the garlic, and the onions.

And the Lord has delivered them to you; and ye shall do to them, as I charged you.

I remembered the days of old; and I meditated on all thy doings: yea, I meditated on the works of thine hands.

and he has delivered my soul from the midst of lions'whelps: I lay down to sleep, though troubled. As for the sons of men, their teeth are arms and missile weapons, and their tongue a sharp sword.

And the king commanded Joab and Abessa and Ethi, saying, Spare for my sake the young man Abessalom. And all the people heard the king charging all the commanders concerning Abessalom.

It is not good to accept the person of the ungodly, nor is it holy to pervert justice in judgment.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And he said to them, Know ye Laban, the son of Nachor? and they said, We do know .

And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Cainan, four hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died. And Cainan lived a hundred and thirty years and begot Sala; and Canaan lived after he had begotten Sala, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.

To whom have ye compared me? see, consider, ye that go astray.

And he measured the wall of the house, six cubits: and the breadth of each side, four cubits round about.

Who wears out the mountains, and men know it not: who overturns them in anger.

Counsel in a man's heart is deep water; but a prudent man will draw it out.

In God I will praise my words; all the day have I hoped in God; I will not fear what flesh shall do to me.

I looked on my right hand, and behold, for there was none that noticed me; refuge failed me; and there was none that cared for my soul.

For I am the Lord God, and there is no other God beside me; I strengthened thee, and thou hast not known me.

And the upper walks were in like manner: for the peristyle projected from it, even from the range of columns below, and there was a space between; so were there a peristyle and a space between, and so were there two porticos.

And I smote Egypt with the wonders that I wrought among them.

Children's children are the crown of old men; and their fathers are the glory of children. The faithful has the whole world full of wealth; but the faithless not even a farthing.

And Moses said to Pharao, Appoint me a time when I shall pray for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to cause the frogs to disappear from thee, and from thy people, and from your houses, only in the river shall they be left behind.

And the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait so that they could not draw nigh, and the people hid themselves in caves, and sheepfolds, and rocks, and ditches, and pits.

One shall say, I am God's; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall write with his hand, I am God's, and shall call himself by the name of Israel.

Thou shalt fall on the face of the field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord.

And behold a wall round about the house without, and in the man's hand a reed, the measure of it was six cubits by the cubit, and a span: and he measured across the front wall; the breadth was equal to the reed, and the length of it equal to the reed.

And Jodae made a covenant between the Lord and the king and the people, that they should be the Lord's people; also between the king and the people.

My heart was troubled within me; and the fear of death fell upon me.

Return, O Lord, deliver my soul: save me for thy mercy's sake.

And Aaron and his sons shall go in, when the camp is about to move, and shall take down the shadowing veil, and shall cover with it the ark of the testimony.

And both the wives of David were carried captive, Achinaam, the Jezraelitess, and Abigaia the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

Fear not; for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and will gather thee from the west.

Thus saith the Lord to these bones; Behold, I will bring upon you the breath of life:

If my heart has gone forth after another man's wife, and if I laid wait at her doors;

let the priests take it to themselves, every man from the proceeds of his sale: and they shall repair the breaches of the house in all places wheresoever a breach shall be found.

The righteous shall chasten me with mercy, and reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner anoint my head: for yet shall my prayer also be in their pleasures.

Divinations, and soothsayings, and dreams, are vain: and the heart fancieth, as a woman's heart in travail.

the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the breadth twenty thousand: and the Levites that attend the house, they shall have cities to dwell in for a possession.

Ye shall follow the Lord your God, and fear him, and ye shall hear his voice, and attach yourselves to him.

So Isaac sent away Jacob, and he went into Mesopotamia to Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebecca the mother of Jacob and Esau.

If thou canst, give me an answer: wait therefore; stand against me, and I will stand against thee.

And all the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, stretching out my hand upon Egypt, and I will bring out the children of Israel out of the midst of them.

Is not this David whom they celebrated in dances, saying, Saul has smitten his thousands, and David his ten thousands?

And Ruth said to her, All that thou shalt say, I will do.

He has not lent his money on usury, and has not received bribes against the innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And one kid of the goats for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you.

For thou art not a god that desires iniquity; neither shall the worker of wickedness dwell with thee.

Thus saith the Lord God, who made the heaven, and established it; who settled the earth, and the things in it, and gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to them that tread on it:

Because thou hast been a perpetual enemy, and hast laid wait craftily for the house of Israel, with the hand of enemies with a sword, in the time of injustice, at the last:

And if any one should have recently taken a wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall any thing be laid upon him; he shall be free in his house; for one year he shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

And he arose, and went into the house: and he poured the oil upon his head, and said to him, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I have anointed thee to be king over the people of the Lord, even over Israel.

Will none of the workers of iniquity know, who devour my people as they would eat bread? they have not called upon God. There were they greatly afraid, where there was no fear:

that the elders of Galaad went to fetch Jephthae from the land of 67.

The nations saw, and feared; the ends of the earth drew nigh, and came together,

And my sheep were scattered, because there were no shepherds: and they became meat to all the wild beasts of the field.

And all the land of Galiath of the Phylistines, and all Libanus eastward from Galgal, under the mountain Aermon as far as the entering in of Emath;

Because he heard the sound of the trumpet, and took no heed, his blood shall be upon him: but the other, because he took heed, has delivered his soul.

A fool scorns his father's instruction; but he that keeps his commandments is more prudent. In abounding righteousness is great strength: but the ungodly shall utterly perish from the earth.

For strangers have risen up against me, and mighty men have sought my life: they have not set God before them. Pause.