Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

And thou shalt know in thine heart, that as if any man should chasten his son, so the Lord thy God will chasten thee.

For the Lord takes pleasure in his people; and will exalt the meek with salvation.

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

Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

Trust in God with all thine heart; and be not exalted in thine own wisdom.

saying, When will the month pass away, and we shall sell, and the sabbath, and we shall open the treasure, to make the measure small, and to enlarge the weight, and make the balance unfair?

Look upon me, and wonder, laying your hand upon your cheek.

And he shall have his loins girt with righteousness, and his sides clothed with truth.

Ruben was the first-born of Israel: and the sons of Ruben, Enoch, and the family of Enoch; to Phallu belongs the family of the Phalluites.

And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Massephath, and I will pray for you to the Lord.

And if the servant should answer and say, I love my master and wife and children, I will not go away free;

And he put his life in his hand, and smote the Philistine, and the Lord wrought a great deliverance; and all Israel saw, and rejoined: why then dost thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?

and built high places for Baal, to burn their children in the fire, which things I commanded not, neither did I design them in my heart:

Is not thy wickedness abundant, and thy sins innumerable?

Blessed shall be thy barns, and thy stores.

And he brought him out and said to him, Look up now to heaven, and count the stars, if thou shalt be able to number them fully, and he said, Thus shall thy seed be.

And Moses said to the tribes of Israel, Slay ye every one his friend that is consecrated to Beel-phegor.

I called on the Lord out of affliction: and he hearkened to me, so as to bring me into a wide place.

And they read the law without, and called for public professions: proclaim aloud that the children of Israel have loved these things, saith the Lord.

Woe to the Assyrians; the rod of my wrath, and anger are in their hands.

And he had a helmet upon his head, and he wore a breastplate of chain armour; and the weight of his breastplate was five thousand shekels of brass and iron.

Will a bird fall on the earth without a fowler? will a snare be taken up from the earth without having taken anything?

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

Therefore, behold, I roll under you, as a waggon full of straw is rolled.

Then they said, Come, and let us devise a device against Jeremias; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and we will hear all his words.

But the mirth of the ungodly is a signal downfall, and the joy of transgressors is destruction:

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

For by the hearing of these a wise man will be wiser, and man of understanding will gain direction;

And Esau looked up and saw the women and the children, and said, What are these to thee? And he said, The children with which God has mercifully blessed thy servant.

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 king said, Who is this that has dared to do this thing?

Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor serve them; for I am the Lord thy God, a jealous God, recompensing the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation to them that hate me,

Gaze not on a maid, that thou fall not by those things that are precious in her.

The heart is deep beyond all things, and it is the man, and who can know him?

And God put a word into the mouth of Balaam, and said, thou shalt return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak.

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

For the Lord is good, his mercy is for ever; and his truth endures to generation and generation.

(and ye sinned worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the lusts of your own evil heart, so as not to hearken to me);

And the men of Gai slew of them to the number of thirty-six men, and they pursued them from the gate, and destroyed them from the steep hill; and the heart of the people was alarmed and became as water.

that we may behold the good of thine elect, that we may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that we may glory with thine inheritance.

For they shall compensate for every garment that has been acquired by deceit, and all raiment with restitution; and they shall be willing, even if they were burnt with fire.

Let them praise the name of the Lord: for he spoke, and they were made; he commanded, and they were created.

And the sons of the prophets who were in Jericho drew near to Elisaie, and said to him, Dost thou know that the Lord is about to take away thy master to-day from thy head? And he said, Yea, I know it; hold your peace.

but when the gate was shut in the evening, the men went out; I know not whither they are gone: follow after them, if ye may overtake them.

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:

And Moses and Aaron said to all the congregation of the children of Israel, At even ye shall know that the Lord has brought you out of the land of Egypt;

And the Lord spoke to me yet again, saying,

And now if ye will indeed hear my voice, and keep my covenant, ye shall be to me a peculiar people above all nations; for the whole earth is mine.

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

And he sent ambassadors to Balaam the son of Beor, to Phathura, which is on a river of the land of the sons of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, a people is come out of Egypt, and behold it has covered the face of the earth, and it has encamped close to me.

And it came to pass when a man came near to do him obeisance, that he stretched out his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him.

Thou hast turned away from me, saith the Lord, thou wilt go back: therefore I will stretch out my hand, and will destroy thee, and will no more spare them.

And hinds calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.

and Sikelac, and Baethmachereb, and Sarsusin,

He loves mercy and judgment; the earth is full the mercy of the Lord.

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.

He gives snow like wool: he scatters the mist like ashes.

Nay, but put forth thine hand, and touch his bones and his flesh: verily he will bless thee to thy face.

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

Thou has prepared a table before me in presence of them that afflict me: thou hast thoroughly anointed my head with oil; and thy cup cheers me like the best wine.

The heart of the region of Moab cries within her to Segor; for it is as a heifer of three years old: and on the ascent of Luith they shall go up to thee weeping by the way of Aroniim: she cries, Destruction, and trembling.

And the people spoke against God and against Moses, saying, Why is this? Hast thou brought us ought of Egypt to slay us in the wilderness? for there is not bread nor water; and our soul loathes this light bread.

Remember his wonderful works that he has done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;

And they said to Jeremias, Let the Lord be between us for a just and faithful witness, if we do not according to every word which the Lord shall send to us.

then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.

And Jothor the father-in-law of Moses, and his sons and his wife, went forth to Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped on the mount of God.

And it came to pass on the morrow that an evil spirit from God fell upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of his house. And David was playing on the harp with his hand, according to his daily custom. And Sauls spear was in his hand.

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.

And Jonas went out from the city, and sat over against the city; and he made for himself there a booth, and he sat under it, until he should perceive what would become of the city.

Whereas the workman made it, and it is not God; wherefore thy calf, Samaria, was a deceiver:

For even thy brethren and the house of thy father, even these have dealt treacherously with thee; and they have cried out, they are gathered together in pursuit of thee; trust not thou in them, though they shall speak fair words to thee.

With trumpets of metal, and the sound of a trumpet of horn make a joyful noise to the Lord before the king.

And there was sent to me one of the seraphs, and he had in his hand a coal, which he had taken off the altar with the tongs:

For, behold, thou lovest truth: thou hast manifested to me the secret and hidden things of thy wisdom.

And Moses and Aaron went from before the assembly to the door of the tabernacle of witness, and they fell upon their faces; and the glory of the Lord appeared to them.

And I laid hold of my concubine, and divided her in pieces, and sent the parts into every coast of the inheritance of the children of Israel; for they have wrought lewdness and abomination in Israel.

And there were born to me oxen, and asses, and sheep, and men-servants and women-servants; and I sent to tell my lord Esau, that thy servant might find grace in thy sight.

And all the prophets prophesied in like manner, saying, Go up to Remmath Galaad, and the thing shall prosper, and the Lord shall deliver it and the king of Syria into thine hands.

Behold, I stand there before thou come, on the rock in Choreb, and thou shalt smite the rock, and water shall come out from it, and the people shall drink. And Moses did so before the sons of Israel.

And he has laid bare the depths of rivers, and has brought his power to light.

Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the men of Anathoth, that seek my life, that say, Thou shalt not prophesy at all in the name of the Lord, but if thou dost, thou shalt die by our hands:

And the priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet wool, and they shall cast them into the midst of the burning of the heifer.

And the Chorrhaeans in the mountains of Seir, to the turpentine tree of Pharan, which is in the desert.

Wherefore their hearts are inflamed as an oven, while they rage all the night: Ephraim is satisfied with sleep; the morning is come; he is burnt up as a flame of fire.

And the king said to Aman, What shall I do to the man whom I wish to honour? And Aman said within himself, Whom would the king honour but myself?

Know then that it is the Lord that has troubled me, and has raised his bulwark against me.

And Joshua dismissed the people, and they went every man to his inheritance, to inherit the land.

The deep, as it were a garment, is his covering: the waters shall stand on the hills.

For I will have mercy rather than sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than whole-burnt-offerings.

And I will forsake my vineyard; and it shall not be pruned, nor dug, and thorns shall come up upon it as on barren land; and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.

is thyself, O king; for thou art grown great and powerful, and thy greatness has increased and reached to heaven, and thy dominion to the ends of the earth.

And I have taken your brethren the Levites out of the midst of the children of Israel, a present given to the Lord, to minister in the services of the tabernacle of witness.

And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalim, and Astaroth, and the gods of Aram, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Phylistines; and they forsook the Lord, and did not serve him.

and in the morning ye shall see the glory of the Lord, inasmuch as he hears your murmuring against God; and who are we, that ye continue to murmur against us?

And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge. Pause.

They shall go with sheep and calves diligently to seek the Lord; but they shall not find him, for he has withdrawn himself from them.

And it shall be for a shadow from the heat, and as a shelter and a hiding place from inclemency of weather and from rain.

And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and all their chiefs gave him a rod each, for one chief a rod, according to the house of their families, twelve rods; and the rod of Aaron was in the midst of the rods.