Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is glutted with fat, with the blood of goats and lambs, and with the fat of goats and rams: for the Lord has a sacrifice in Bosor, and a great slaughter in Idumea.

And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying,

I spread forth my hands to thee; my soul thirsts for thee, as a dry land. Pause.

For the son dishonours his father, the daughter will rise up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: those in his house shall be all a man's enemies.

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.

Who shall stand before his anger? and who shall withstand in the anger of his wrath? his wrath brings to nought kingdoms, and the rocks are burst asunder by him.

And they shall tend the Assyrian with a sword, and the land of Nebrod with her trench: and he shall deliver you from the Assyrian, when he shall come upon your land, and when he shall invade your coasts.

A great snare is spread for a sinner: but the righteous shall be in joy and gladness.

And Abraam took the wood of the whole-burnt-offering, and laid it on Isaac his son, and he took into his hands both the fire and the knife, and the two went together.

They shall be delivered up to the law: our salvation is our treasure: there are wisdom and knowledge and piety toward the Lord; these are the treasures of righteousness.

And he found them, and spoke to them according to these words.

so thou shalt read in this roll in the ears of the people in the house of the Lord, on the fast day; and in the ears of all Juda that come out of their cities, thou shalt read to them.

And the hare, because it does not chew the cud, and does not divide the hoof, this is unclean to you.

And David answered and spoke to Abimelech the Chettite, and to Abessa the son Saruia the brother of Joab, saying, Who will go in with me to Saul into the camp? And Abessa said, I will go in with thee.

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.

And Moses said to Aaron, and Eleazar and Ithamar his sons that were left, Ye shall not make bare your heads, and ye shall not tear your garments; that ye die not, and so there should be wrath on all the congregation: but your brethren, even all the house of Israel, shall lament for the burning, with which they were burnt by the Lord.

But they said, We will on no account drink wine, for our father Jonadab the son of Rechab commanded us, saying, Ye shall on no account drink wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever:

And Noe was six hundred years old when the flood of water was upon the earth.

And it came to pass on a day, that behold, the angels of God came to stand before the Lord, and the devil came with them.

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

For the fool shall speak foolish words, and his heart shall meditate vanities, and to perform lawless deeds and to speak error against the Lord, to scatter hungry souls, and he will cause the thirsty souls to be empty.

And Saul said to the Kinite, Go, and depart out of the midst of the Amalekites, lest I put thee with them; for thou dealedst mercifully with the children of Israel when they went up out of Egypt. So the Kinite departed from the midst of Amalec.

Give strong drink to those that are in sorrow, and the wine to drink to those in pain:

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

Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the stammerers shall speak plainly; for water has burst forth in the desert, and a channel of water in a thirsty land.

therefore there shall be night to you instead of a vision, and there shall be to you darkness instead of prophecy; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be dark upon them.

Let one give us seven men of his sons, and let us hang them up in the sun to the Lord in Gabaon of Saul, as chosen out for the Lord. And the king said, I will give them.

I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you children of the Most High.

And the sons of Aaron the priests shall put fire on the altar, and shall pile wood on the fire.

And Moses said, This is the thing which the Lord has spoken; do it, and the glory of the Lord shall appear among you.

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

The Lord executes mercy and judgment for all that are injured.

A poor man walking in truth is better than a rich liar.

And Israel said, Why did ye harm me, inasmuch as ye told the man that ye had a brother?

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

And David said to Amessai, Now shall Sabee the son of Bochori do us more harm than Abessalom: now then take thou with thee the servants of thy lord, and follow after him, lest he find for himself strong cities, so will he blind our eyes.

Turn, ye children of Israel, who devise a deep and sinful counsel.

And thou shalt utterly destroy the house of Achaab thy master from before me, and shalt avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the Lord, at the hand of Jezabel,

He made it to be a testimony in Joseph, when he came forth out of the land of Egypt: he heard a language which he understood not.

And Moses brought nigh Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water,

Behold, I bring upon her healing and cure, and I will show myself to them, and will heal her, and make both peace and security.

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 Philistines said, Who has done these things? and they said, Sampson the son-in-law of the Thamnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to one of his friends; and the Philistines went up, and burnt her and her father's house with fire.

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.

The wounds of a friend are more to be trusted than the spontaneous kisses of an enemy.

although his gifts should go up to heaven, and his sacrifice reach the clouds.

Every male of the priests shall eat them, in the holy place they shall eat them: they are most holy.

And Sarrha said, The Lord has made laughter for me, for whoever shall hear shall rejoice with me.

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.

For I have not dwelt in a house from the day that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt to this day, but I have been walking in a lodge and in a tent,

And Joseph was ruler of the land; he sold to all the people of the land. And the brethren of Joseph, having come, did reverence to him, with the face to the ground.

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

Mine enemies have spoken evil against me, saying, When shall he die, and his name perish?

Thou wilt feed us with bread of tears; and wilt cause us to drink tears by measure.

THE VISION OF THE QUADRUPEDS IN THE DESERT. In affliction and distress, where are the lion and lion's whelp, thence come also asps, and the young of flying asps, there shall they be who bore their wealth on asses and camels to a nation which shall not profit them.

He that sends a message by a foolish messenger procures for himself a reproach from his own ways.

Behold, Anameel the son of Salom thy father's brother is coming to thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for thou hast the right to take it as a purchase.

And the fire shall always burn on the altar; it shall not be extinguished.

And it shall come to pass that the child which she shall bear, shall be named by the name of the deceased, and his name shall not be blotted out of Israel.

By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bone has cleaved to my flesh.

from the Lord of Hosts: for there shall be a visitation with thunder, and earthquake, and a loud noise, a rushing tempest, and devouring flame of fire.

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

I cried unto thee, O Lord, and said, Thou art my hope, my portion in the land of the living.

Their mighty ones have been swallowed up near the rock: they shall hear my words, for they are sweet.

And he shall bring for his transgressions against the Lord, for his sin which he has sinned, a ewe lamb of the flock, or a kid of the goats, for a sin-offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he has sinned, and his sin shall be forgiven him.

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.

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

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

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

O Lord my God, thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, and in thy thoughts there is none who shall be likened to thee: I declared and spoke of them: they exceeded number.

And these the generations of Noe. Noe was a just man; being perfect in his generation, Noe was well-pleasing to God.

They shall be left in the spirit of judgment for judgment, and for the strength of them that hinder slaying.

And the king of Syria was at war with Israel: and he consulted with his servants, saying, I will encamp in such a place.

And in the city Susa the Jews slew five hundred men:

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

Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walked in a perfect way, the same ministered to me.

And God said to him in sleep, Yea, I knew that thou didst this with a pure heart, and I spared thee, so that thou shouldest not sin against me, therefore I suffered thee not to touch her.

And the priest shall dip his finger into the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the Lord, over against the holy veil.

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 it was morning, and his soul was troubled; and he sent and called all the interpreters of Egypt, and all her wise men; and Pharao related to them his dream, and there was no one to interpret it to Pharao.

The proud have hid a snare for me, and have stretched out ropes for snares for my feet; they set a stumbling-block for me near the path. Pause.

And if his gift be of the sheep, a peace-offering to the Lord, male or female, he shall bring it unblemished.

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.

Wherefore most of the fighting men that came out of the land of Egypt, were uncircumcised, who disobeyed the commands of God; concerning whom also he determined that they should not see the land, which the Lord sware to give to their fathers, even a land flowing with milk and honey.

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

And thou shalt break them into fragments and pour oil upon them: it is a sacrifice to the Lord.

His light shall be darkness in his habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

Behold, thou hast made my days old; and my existence is as nothing before thee: nay, every man living is altogether vanity. Pause.

The Lord is in his holy temple, as for the Lord, his throne is in heaven: his eyes look upon the poor, his eyelids try the sons of men.

Sup not with an envious man, neither desire thou his meats:

And the children of Israel departed from Beeroth of the sons of Jakim to Misadai: there Aaron died, and there he was buried, and Eleazar his son was priest in his stead.

And Elisaie sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash seven times in Jordan, and thy flesh shall return to thee, and thou shalt be cleansed.

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.

Let Ruben live, and not die; and let him be many in number.

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

But she had brought them up upon the house, and hid them in the flax-stalks that were spread by her on the house.

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?

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.

The rich will rule over the poor, and servants will lend to their own masters.