Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

War is carried on with generalship, and aid is supplied to the heart of a counsellor.

a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

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.

And Jeremias spoke to king Sedekias all these words in Jerusalem.

For wisdom is a loving spirit; and will not acquit a blasphemer of his words: for God is witness of his reins, and a true beholder of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue.

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.

And Saul heard that David was discovered, and his men with him: now Saul dwelt in the hill below the field that is in Rama, and his spear was in his hand, and all his servants stood near him.

And the Spirit of the Lord came upon Saul when he heard these words, and his anger was greatly kindled against them.

All the simple ones in heart were troubled; all the men of wealth have slept their sleep, and have found nothing in their hands.

And they said to Jephthae, Come, and be our head, and we will fight with the sons of Ammon.

May my tongue cleave to my throat, if I do not remember thee; if I do not prefer Jerusalem as the chief of my joy.

For the Lord has ransomed Jacob, he has rescued him out of the hand of them that were stronger than he.

And at the banquet the king said to Esther, What is thy request, queen Esther? speak, and thou shalt have all that thou requirest.

Weep not with tears in the assembly of the Lord, neither let any weep for these things; for he shall not remove the reproaches,

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.

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.

And all the elders of that city who draw nigh to the slain man shall wash their hands over the head of the heifer which was slain in the valley;

Be strong and 'quit thyself like a man, for thou shalt divide the land to this people, which I sware to give to your fathers.

So they two sat down together and ate and drank: and the father of the damsel said to her husband, Tarry now the night, and let thy heart be merry.

Destruction shall lodge with the ungodly; for they refuse to do justly.

then will I make this house as Selo, and I will make this city a curse to all the nations of all the earth.

And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noon-day.

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

they that are coming are the children of Jacob. Israel shall bud and blossom, and the world shall be filled with his fruit.

And would there were strength in my mouth, and I would not spare the movement of my lips.

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

Let not my soul come into their counsel, and let not mine inward parts contend in their conspiracy, for in their wrath they slew men, and in their passion they houghed a bull.

In what day soever ye shall sacrifice it, it shall be eaten; and on the following day, and if any of it should be left till the third day, it shall be thoroughly burnt with fire.

Let the enemy persecute my soul, an take it; and let him trample my life on the ground, and lay my glory in the dust. Pause.

and Daedan, and Thaeman, and Ros, and every one that is shaved round about the face,

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.

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.

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

And the feet of the meek and lowly shall trample them.

O Lord, thy mercy is in the heaven; and thy truth reaches to the clouds.

To him who alone made great lights; for his mercy endures for ever.

No man shall draw nigh to any of his near kindred to uncover their nakedness; I am the Lord.

And Lot went out to them to the porch, and he shut the door after him,

they cut down its doors at once with axes as in a wood of trees; they have broken it down with hatchet and stone cutter.

And the children which thou shalt beget hereafter, shall be in the name of their brethren; they shall be named after their inheritances.

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.

A man is valuable, and a merciful man precious: but it is hard to find a faithful man.

And the priest shall pour the blood on the altar round about before the Lord by the doors of the tabernacle of witness, and shall offer the fat for a sweet-smelling savour to the Lord.

Return to thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord has dealt bountifully with thee.

And the Lord shall purge thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

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

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.

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.

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

For the daughters of the sons of Manasse inherited a portion in the midst of their brethren, and the land of Galaad was assigned to the remainder of the sons of Manasse.

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

And Mardochaeus shewed him what was done, and the promise which Aman had made the king of ten thousand talents to be paid into the treasury, that he might destroy the Jews.

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.

He that procures wisdom loves himself; and he that keeps wisdom shall find good.

For in death no man remembers thee: and who will give thee thanks in Hades?

And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharao; and Jacob blessed Pharao.

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.

And Abraam said to him, Take heed to thyself that thou carry not my son back thither.

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.

And Aaron shall bring the calf for his own sin-offering, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house.

And it came to pass after forty days Noe opened the window of the ark which he had made.

Let thine own mouth, and not me, reprove thee: and thy lips shall testify against thee.

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

Therefore pride has possessed them; they have clothed themselves with their injustice and ungodliness.

And it came to pass while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abenner was governing the house of Saul.

The lips of a fool bring him into troubles, and his bold mouth calls for death.

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

and cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on the right and left hand of the king.

And whosoever sits on the seat on which he that has the issue may have sat, shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean until evening.

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.

Be not boastful in the presence of the king, and remain not in the places of princes;

And Debbora sent and called Barac the son of Abineem out of Cades Nephthali, and she said to him, Has not the Lord God of Israel commanded thee? and thou shalt depart to mount Thabor, and shalt take with thyself ten thousand men of the sons of Nephthali and of the sons of Zabulon.

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.

Into thine hands I will commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.

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 David answered the priest, and said to him, Yea, we have been kept from women for three days: when I came forth for the journey all the young men were purified; but this expedition is unclean, wherefore it shall be sanctified this day because of my weapons.

And as for the living bird he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the spun scarlet, and the hyssop, and he shall dip them and the living bird into the blood of the bird that was slain over running water.

And they took up their goods, and all their property, which they had gotten in the land of Chanaan; they came into the land of Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him.

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

Neither shall the transgressors continue in thy sight: thou hatest, O Lord, all them that work iniquity.

Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect to all thy commandments.

but hear us; thou art in the midst of us a king from God; bury thy dead in our choice sepulchres, for not one of us will by any means withhold his sepulchre from thee, so that thou shouldest not bury thy dead there.

Every beast that divides the hoofs, and makes claws of two divisions, and that chews the cud among beasts, these ye shall eat.

The Lord kills and makes alive; he brings down to the grave, and brings up.

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.

Moses the servant of the Lord and the children of Israel smote them; and Moses gave them by way of inheritance to Ruben, and Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasse.

all that the Lord willed, he did in heaven, and on the earth, in the sea, and in all deeps.

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

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?

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

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.

For God sent me before you, that there might be left to you a remnant upon the earth, even to nourish a great remnant of you.

And the priest shall look upon him the second time on the seventh day; and, behold, if the spot be dark, and the spot have not spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; for it is a mere mark, and the man shall wash his garments and be clean.

And when they shall come out after us, we will draw them away from the city; and they will say, These men flee from before us, as also before.

And when the days of her purification shall have been fulfilled for a son or a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of a year old without blemish for a whole-burnt-offering, and a young pigeon or turtle-dove for a sin-offering to the door of the tabernacle of witness, to the priest.

and ye have sold the children of Juda and the children of Jerusalem to the children of the Greeks, that ye might expel them from their coasts.

Behold, we heard of it in Ephratha; we found it in the fields of the wood.

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