Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

But oh that the Lord would speak to thee, and open his lips to thee!

Why should ye be smitten any more, transgressing more and more? the whole head is pained, and the whole heart sad.

And when they came to Siph, then Saul said to his young man that was with him, Come and let us return, lest my father leave the asses, and take care for us.

But Noe found grace before the Lord God.

because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and ye have brought my choice ornaments into your temples;

But they hearkened not, and made their neck harder than the neck of their fathers.

Said he not to me, She is my sister, and said she not to me, He is my brother? with a pure heart and in the righteousness of my hands have I done this.

Wherefore art thou very sad, O my soul? and wherefore dost thou trouble me? Hope in God; for I will give thanks to him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Years shall be vanity to them: let the morning pass away as grass.

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.

And the anointed priest who has been consecrated having received of the blood of the calf, shall then bring it into the tabernacle of witness.

Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will try them with fire, and prove them; for I will do thus because of the wickedness of the daughter of my people.

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

As the sound of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, and as the sound of a flame of fire devouring stubble, and as a numerous and strong people setting themselves in array for battle.

And the seven thin ears and blasted with the wind devoured the seven choice and full ears; and Pharao awoke, and it was a dream.

And the priests the sons of Aaron shall offer them on the altar on the burnt-offering, on the wood which is on the fire upon the altar: it is a burnt-offering, a smell of sweet savour to the Lord.

And Booz said to his servant who was set over the reapers, Whose is this damsel?

I remembered these things, and poured out my soul in me, for I will go to the place of thy wondrous tabernacle, even to the house of God, with a voice of exultation and thanksgiving and of the sound of those who keep festival.

Thou shalt not be afraid of terror by night; nor of the arrow flying by day;

O Lord, that judgest righteously, trying the reins and hearts, let me see thy vengeance taken upon them, for to thee I have declared my cause.

And if thy gift be a sacrifice from a pan, it is fine flour mingled with oil, unleavened offerings.

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill.

Behold, there is a sound of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land afar off: Is not the Lord in Sion? is there not a king there? because they have provoked me with their graven images, and with strange vanities.

I will establish thy seed for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Pause.

Then went up Raasson king of Syria and Phakee son of Romelias king of Israel against Jerusalem to war, and besieged Achaz, but could not prevail against him.

They shall return, and dwell under his shadow: they shall live and be satisfied with corn, and he shall flower as a vine: his memorial shall be to Ephraim as the wine of Libanus.

I said, O Lord, have mercy upon me; heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

And they both had a dream in one night; and the vision of the dream of the chief cupbearer and chief baker, who belonged to the king of Egypt, who were in the prison, was this.

For my house is not so with the Mighty One: for he has made an everlasting covenant with me, ready, guarded at every time; for all my salvation and all my desire is, that the wicked should not flourish.

Thy head upon thee is as Carmel, and the curls of thy hair like scarlet; the king is bound in the galleries.

Alas, Alas, Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is nigh, and it will come as trouble upon trouble.

And they came to him: and he divided to them seven portions, saying, Juda shall stand to them a border southward, and the sons of Joseph shall stand to them northward.

I have been reckoned with them that go down to the pit; I became as a man without help;

And the Lord descended in a cloud, and stood near him there, and called by the name of the Lord.

And Gad the prophet said to David, Dwell not in the hold: go, and thou shalt enter the land of Juda. So David went, and came and dwelt in the city of Saric.

so that it is evil with you; yet have ye come, and stood before me in the house, whereon my name is called, and ye have said, We have refrained from doing all these abominations.

Cast off thy calf, O Samaria; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will they be unable to purge themselves in Israel?

In the days of our kings, the princes began to be inflamed with wine: he stretched out his hand with pestilent fellows.

And now, O house of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.

To him who established the earth on the waters; for his mercy endures for ever.

Wherefore do ye bring me frankincense from Saba, and cinnamon from a land afar off? your whole-burnt-offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices have not been pleasant to me.

Who is this that comes up all white, leaning on her kinsman? I raised thee up under an apple-tree; there thy mother brought thee forth; there she that bore thee brought thee forth.

The inhabitants of Samaria shall dwell near the calf of the house of On; for the people of it mourned for it: and as they provoked him, they shall rejoice at his glory, because he has departed from them.

For the Lord said to the children of Israel, Ye are a stiff-necked people; take heed lest I bring on you another plague, and destroy you: now then put off your glorious apparel, and your ornaments, and I will shew thee what I will do to thee.

And he committed all that he had into the hands of Joseph; and he knew not of anything that belonged to him, save the bread which he himself ate. And Joseph was handsome in form, and exceedingly beautiful in countenance.

And I turned and came down from the mountain, and I put the tables into the ark which I had made; and there they were, as the Lord commanded me.

thou shalt not have power to sacrifice the passover in any of the cities, which the Lord thy God gives thee.

Blessed is the man whose hope is in the name of the Lord, and who has not regarded vanities and false frenzies.

For I know that the Lord is great, and our Lord is above all gods;

I cried to the Lord with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy mountain. Pause.

I rose up to open to my kinsman; my hands dropped myrrh, my fingers choice myrrh, on the handles of the lock.

I will go to the rich men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of God: but, behold, with one consent they have broken the yoke, they have burst the bonds.

A man shall say, Sion is my mother; and such a man was born in her; and the Highest himself has founded her.

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

And Er, the first-born of Judas, was wicked before the Lord; and God killed him.

And the pride of Israel shall be brought low before his face; and Israel and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquities; and Judas also shall fall with them.

Therefore have I mown down your prophets; I have slain them with the word of my mouth: and my judgment shall go forth as the light.

For thou, O Lord, art kind, and gentle; and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon thee.

And Aaron having seen it built an altar before it, and Aaron made proclamation saying, To-morrow is a feast of the Lord.

Therefore they shall fall by day, and the prophet with thee shall fall: I have compared thy mother unto night.

Thy two breasts are as two twin fawns, that feed among the lilies.

And I have appointed him and Eliab the son of Achisamach of the tribe of Dan, and to every one understanding in heart I have given understanding; and they shall make all things as many as I have appointed thee,

And the five kings of the Jebusites went up, the king of Jerusalem, and the king of Chebron, and the king of Jerimuth, and the king of Lachis, and the king of Odollam, they and all their people; and encamped around Gabaon, and besieged it.

O Lord, make me to know mine end, and the number of my days, what it is; that I may know what I lack.

Slay the ungodly from before the king, and his throne shall prosper in righteousness.

Thy teeth are as flocks of shorn sheep, that have gone up from the washing, all of them bearing twins, and there is none barren among them: thy lips are as a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely.

For a voice of one publishing from Dan shall come, and trouble out of mount Ephraim shall be heard of.

I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and by the virtues of the field, that ye rouse not nor awake my love, until he please.

Behold, I have shewn you ordinances and judgments as the Lord commanded me, that ye should do so in the land into which ye go to inherit it.

For the troubles of death compassed me, the floods of iniquity amazed me:

Will God's anger continue for ever, or be preserved to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done these bad things, and hadst power to do them.

and they said to him, Behold, thou art grown old, and thy sons walk not in thy way; and now set over us a king to judge us, as also the other nations have.

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

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.

Turn us, O God of our salvation, and turn thy anger away from us.

Then shall he speak to them in his anger, and trouble them in his fury.

And I will recompense on her the days of Baalim, wherein she sacrificed to them, and put on her ear-rings, and her necklaces, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the Lord.

And they named the name of that place Weepings; and they sacrificed there to the Lord.

And the Lord plagued the king, and he was leprous till the day of his death; and he reigned in a separate house. And Joatham the king's son was over the household, judging the people of the land.

The heaven is amazed at this, and is very exceedingly horror-struck, saith the Lord.

And I Daniel only saw the vision: and the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great amazement fell upon them, and they fled in fear.

Go, and say to my servant David, Thus says the Lord, Thou shalt not build me a house for me to dwell in.

And Joseph dreamed a dream, and reported it to his brethren.

And having taken the garments, thou shalt put on Aaron thy brother both the full-length robe and the ephod and the oracle; and thou shalt join for him the oracle to the ephod.

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

And David and the children of Israel were playing before the Lord on well-tuned instruments mightily, and with songs, and with harps, and with lutes, and with drums, and with cymbals, and with pipes.

And Moses charged the children of Israel by the commandment of the Lord, saying, Thus says the tribe of the children of Joseph.

Be ye angry, and sin not; feel compunction upon your beds for what ye say in your hearts. Pause.

Strengthen me with perfumes, stay me with apples: for I am wounded with love.

And the Lord said to me, Thou hast well seen: for I have watched over my words to perform them.

And the scribes shall speak to the people, saying, What man is he that has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the war, and another man dedicate it.

And they went over Jordan, and encamped in Aroer, on the right of the city which is in the midst of the valley of Gad and Eliezer.

For my transgressions have gone over mine head: they have pressed heavily upon me like a weighty burden.

When I was very fruitful, and my children were about me;

And the children of Israel dwelt in the midst of the Chananite, and the Chettite, and the Amorite, and the Pherezite, and the Evite, and the Jebusite.

And afterward shall the children of Israel return, and shall seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall be amazed at the Lord and at his goodness in the latter days.

until I find a place for the Lord, a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

And all the days of Adam which he lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

And they shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.

And their lot fell to them from Anassa, and to the plain of Labec of the land of Galaad, which is beyond Jordan.