Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

And the Lord God commanded a gourd, and it came up over the head of Jonas, to be a shadow over his head, to shade him from his calamities: and Jonas rejoiced with great joy for the gourd.

And Saul took his spear and said, I will smite David even to the wall. But David escaped twice from his presence.

And the Lord of hosts shall make a feast for all the nations: on this mount they shall drink gladness, they shall drink wine:

Thou art formed out of the clay as also I: we have been formed out of the same substance.

And they came to Joshua into the camp of Israel to Galgala, and said to Joshua and Israel, We are come from a far land: now then make a covenant with us.

And she said to king Solomon, It was a true report which I heard in my land of thy words and thy wisdom.

On thee have I been stayed from the womb: from the belly of my mother thou art my protector: of thee is my praise continually.

And I have heard of the pride of Moab, he has greatly heightened his pride and his haughtiness, and his heart has been lifted up.

And he will beat them small, even Libanus itself, like a calf; and the beloved one is as a young unicorn.

Therefore a curse shall consume the earth, because the inhabitants thereof have sinned: therefore the dwellers in the earth shall be poor, and few men shall be left.

And the word reached the king of Nineve, and he arose from off his throne, and took off his raiment from him, and put on sackcloth, and sat on ashes.

Of Symeon, Salamiel the son of Surisadai.

And Jacob drew nigh to his father Isaac, and he felt him, and said, The voice Jacob's voice, but the hands the hands of Esau.

Gold hath been the ruin of many, and their destruction was present.

And Pharao gave orders to the task-masters of the people and the accountants, saying,

Therefore I will make Samaria as a store-house of the fruits of the field, and as a planting of a vineyard: and I will utterly demolish her stones, and I will expose her foundations.

In that day, saith the Lord, I will gather her that is bruised, and will receive her that is cast out, and those whom I rejected.

Depart ye to Carthage; howl, ye that dwell in this island.

Blessed be the Lord, for he has hearkened to the voice of my petition.

How long wilt thou smite, O sword of the Lord? how long will it be ere thou art quiet? return into thy sheath, rest, and be removed.

Water was poured around me to the soul: the lowest deep compassed me, my head went down

And from a month old to five years old, the valuation of a male shall be five didrachms, and of a female, three didrachms of silver.

My soul has hoped in the Lord; from the morning watch till night.

And the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, Why snorest thou? arise, and call upon thy God, that God may save us, and we perish not.

And the sons of Cham, Chus, and Mesrain, Phud, and Chanaan.

Therefore shall every holy one pray to thee in a fit time: only in the deluge of many waters they shall not come nigh to him.

And they buried him in Gai near the house of Phogor; and no one has seen his sepulchre to this day.

and they shall turn their hearts in the land whither they have been carried captives, and turn in the land of their sojourning, and supplicate thee, saying, We have sinned, we have done unjustly, we have transgressed,

And the Elamites took their quivers, and there were men mounted on horses, and there was a gathering for battle.

And by thee I will scatter the shepherd and his flock; and by thee I will scatter the husbandman and his husbandry; and by thee I will scatter leaders and the captains.

Then shall he declare to thee the power of wisdom; for it shall be double of that which is with thee: and then shalt thou know, that a just recompence of thy sins has come to thee from the Lord.

There is an oracle upon the lips of a king; and his mouth shall not err in judgment.

Faithful lips will not suit a fool; nor lying lips a just man.

which was adorned with hangings of fine linen and flax on cords of fine linen and purple, fastened to golden and silver studs, on pillars of Parian marble and stone: there were golden and silver couches on a pavement of emerald stone, and of pearl, and of Parian stone, and open-worked coverings variously flowered, having roses worked round about;

And David was greatly distressed, because the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, each for his sons and his daughters: but David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.

But I am poor and needy; O God, help me: thou art my helper and deliverer, O Lord, delay not.

How has Esau been searched out, and how have his hidden things been detected?

And the Lord said again to him, Put thine hand into thy bosom; and he put his hand into his bosom, and brought his hand out of his bosom, and his hand became as snow.

For the Lord knows the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Ye were sold to the nations, not for your destruction: but because ye moved God to wrath, ye were delivered unto the enemies.

And I will give peace in your land, and ye shall sleep, and none shall make you afraid; and I will destroy the evil beasts out of your land,

Let them be as the grass of the house-tops, which withers before it is plucked up.

And thou shalt keep the commands of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

In the houses of the righteous is much strength: but the fruits of the ungodly shall perish.

But the Lord said to my father David, Whereas it came into thy heart to build a house for my name, thou didst well that it came into thy heart.

For, behold, I stir up against Babylon the gatherings of nations out of the land of the north; and they shall set themselves in array against her: thence shall she be taken, as the dart of an expert warrior shall not return empty.

And the man was exalted, and advancing he increased, till he became very great.

For thus said the Lord to me, Go and station a watchman for thyself, and declare whatever thou shalt see.

It is he that builds his ascent up to the sky, and establishes his promise on the earth; who calls the water of the sea, and pours it out on the face of the earth; the Lord Almighty is his name.

But I have been made king by him on Sion his holy mountain,

That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for shoes; and we will trade in every kind of fruit.

And greaves of grass were upon his legs, and a brazen target was between his shoulders.

The waters of Egypt shall come up like a river: and he said, I will go up, and will cover the earth, and will destroy the dwellers in it.

who is the father of the orphans, and judge of the widows: such is God in his holy place.

And he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraam, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; and Moses turned away his face, for he was afraid to gaze at God.

Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his hope.

O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my transgressions are not hidden from thee.

And the sabbaths of the land shall be food for thee, and for thy man-servant, and for thy maid-servant, and thy hireling, and the stranger that abides with thee.

And his servant who was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel who returned with Noemin out of the land of Moab.

And Anchus called David, and said to him, As the Lord lives, thou art right and approved in my eyes, and so is thy going out and thy coming in with me in the army, and I have not found any evil to charge against thee from the day that thou camest to me until this day: but thou art not approved in the eyes of the lords.

And ye shall put them in two rows, each row containing six loaves, on the pure table before the Lord.

And I will give you dullness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet ye returned not to me, saith the Lord.

And that prophet or that dreamer of a dream, shall die; for he has spoken to make thee err from the Lord thy God who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, who redeemed thee from bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk in: so shalt thou abolish the evil from among you.

Let the peoples, O God, give thanks to thee; let all the peoples give thanks to thee.

And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be to me a people, and I will be to them a God: for they shall turn to me with all their heart.

Shall the trumpet sound in the city, and the people not be alarmed? shall there be evil in a city which the Lord has not wrought?

And having opened it, she sees the babe weeping in the ark: and the daughter of Pharao had compassion on it, and said, This is one of the Hebrew's children.

Thou shalt seek wisdom with bad men, and shalt not find it; but discretion is easily available with the prudent.

And the spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him, and he crushed him as he would have crushed a kid of the goats, and there was nothing in his hands: and he told not his father and his mother what he had done.

And they were gathered together to Massephath, and they drew water, and poured it out upon the earth before the Lord. And they fasted on that day, and said, We have sinned before the Lord. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Massephath.

that thou hast enquired into mine iniquity, and searched out my sins?

Wherefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes.

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water, and let it be a division between water and water, and it was so.

And mayest thou see thy children's children. Peace be upon Israel.

And the streams shall fail, and the canals of the river; and every reservoir of water shall be dried up, in every marsh also of reed and papyrus.

I will wash my hands in innocency, and compass thine altar, O Lord:

And on the fifteenth day of this month is the feast of unleavened bread to the Lord; seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread.

In his days both Juda shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell securely: and this is his name, which the Lord shall call him, Josedec among the prophets.

And flight shall perish from the runner, and the strong shall not hold fast his strength, and the warrior shall not save his life:

And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

And Israel was greatly impoverished because of Madiam.

But to the sons of his concubines Abraam gave gifts, and he sent them away from his son Isaac, while he was yet living, to the east into the country of the east.

And he shall restore the lamb seven-fold, because he has not spared.

whatsoever soul shall touch them shall be unclean until evening; he shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his body in water,

Josaphat son of Phuasud was in Issachar.

He that sheds man's blood, instead of that blood shall his own be shed, for in the image of God I made man.

Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they took prisoners the captivity of Solomon, to shut them up into Idumea.

And Esther said, the adversary is Aman, this wicked man. Then Aman was troubled before the king and the queen.

And now, behold, he has lifted up mine head over mine enemies: I went round and offered in his tabernacle the sacrifice of joy; I will sing even sing psalms to the Lord.

They shall be holy to their God, and they shall not profane the name of their God; for they offer the sacrifices of the Lord as the gifts of their God, and they shall be holy.

Lift not up your horn on high; speak not unrighteousness against God.

So Joseph went up to bury his father; and all the servants of Pharao went up with him, and the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt.

He that remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by famine: but he that goes forth to advance to the Chaldeans that have besieged you, shall live, and his life shall be to him for a spoil, and he shall live.

Therefore thou shalt deal with him according to thy wisdom, and thou shalt not bring down his grey hairs in peace to the grave.

Draw near to him, and be enlightened: and your faces shall not by any means be ashamed.

And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Urias the Chettite; and Joab sent Urias to David.

and as if there should be left stubble therein, or as it were the berries of an olive tree, two or three on the topmost bough, or as if four or five should be left on their branches; thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel.

And the soul that shall follow those who have in them divining spirits, or enchanters, so as to go a whoring after them; I will set my face against that soul, and will destroy it from among its people.