Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

The law shall be found perfect without lies: and wisdom is perfection to a faithful mouth.

HETH. And he has turned to destroy the wall of the daughter of Sion: he has stretched out the measuring line, he has not turned back his hand from afflicting her: therefore the bulwark mourned, and the wall was weakened with it.

And as for the height of the house round about, each space between the sides was equal to a reed of six cubits;

For the Lord has sworn by his glory, and by the might of his arm, I will no more give thy corn and thy provisions to thine enemies; nor shall strangers any more drink thy wine, for which thou has laboured.

The Lord has sent death upon Jacob, and it has come upon Israel.

When the sinners spring up as the grass, and all the workers of iniquity have watched; it is that they may be utterly destroyed for ever.

And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Juda, and they shall sell them into captivity to a far distant nation: for the Lord has spoken it.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and the weak one among them in that day shall be as David, and the house of David as the house of God, as the angel of the Lord before them.

And Ezekias said to Esaias, Good is the word of the Lord, which he hath spoken: let there, I pray, be peace and righteousness in my days.

Fear casts down the slothful; and the souls of the effeminate shall hunger.

She thrives in a fair field by much water, to produce shoots and bear fruit, that she might become a great vine.

Moreover I collected for myself both silver and gold also, and the peculiar treasures of kings and provinces: I procured me singing men and singing women, and delights of the sons of men, a butler and female cupbearers.

The mirth of timbrels has ceased, the sound of the harp has ceased.

For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judea has fallen, and their tongues have spoken with iniquity, disobedient as they are towards the Lord.

And the altars of On, the sins of Israel, shall be taken away: thorns and thistles shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

A righteous man escapes from a snare, and the ungodly man is delivered up in his place.

but the word of our God abides for ever.

Israel is swallowed up: now is he become among the nations as a worthless vessel.

Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and will cut off from thee man and beast;

for all the land is distressed: suddenly my tabernacle is distressed, my curtains have been rent asunder.

For the cry has reached the border of the region of Moab, even of Agalim; and her howling has gone as far as the well of Aelim.

They shall go from strength to strength: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.

All things are full of labour; a man will not be able to speak of them: neither shall the eye be satisfied with seeing, neither shall the ear be filled with hearing.

For the length of the chambers looking toward the inner court was fifty cubits, and these are the ones that front the others; the whole was a hundred cubits.

Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy health shall speedily spring forth: and thy righteousness shall go before thee, and the glory of God shall compass thee.

Thy wrath has pressed heavily upon me, and thou hast brought upon me all thy billows. Pause.

Understand now, ye simple among the people; and ye fools, at length be wise.

when they set my door-way by their door-way, and my thresholds near to their thresholds: and they made my wall as it were joining myself and them, and they profaned my holy name with their iniquities which they wrought: and I destroyed them in my wrath and with slaughter.

Thus saith the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I succored thee: and I have formed thee, and given thee for a covenant of the nations, to establish the earth, and to cause to inherit the desert heritages:

And as men drink and eat in sleep, and when they have arisen, the dream is vain: and as a thirsty man dreams as if he drank, and having arisen is still thirsty, and his soul has desired in vain: so shall be the wealth of all the nations, as many as have fought against the mount Sion.

Ephraim is mixed among his people; Ephraim became a cake not turned.

HETH. Jerusalem has sinned a great sin; therefore has she come into tribulation, all that used to honour her have afflicted her, for they have seen her shame: yea, she herself groaned, and turned backward.

So men and cattle were clothed with sackcloths, and cried earnestly to God; and they turned every one from their evil way, and from the iniquity that was in their hands, saying,

The sacrifices of the ungodly are an abomination to the Lord; but the prayers of them that walk honestly are acceptable with him.

And I will cleanse them from all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned against me, and will not remember their sins, whereby they have sinned against me, and revolted from me.

Therefore do thou deliver their sons to famine, and gather them to the power of the sword: let their women be childless and widows; and let their men be cut off by death, and their young men fall by the sword in war.

Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Judge righteous judgment, and deal mercifully and compassionately every one with his brother:

Rebuke not evil men, lest they should hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

And they said to him, Tell us what is thine occupation, and whence comest thou, and of what country and what people art thou?

For as a garment will be devoured by time, and as wool will be devoured by a moth, so shall they be consumed; but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation for all generations.

Open thy mouth with the word of God, and judge all fairly.

And he shall have it for a possession in Israel: and the princes of Israel shall no more oppress my people; but the house of Israel shall inherit the land according to their tribes.

The voice of my kinsman! behold, he comes leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills.

In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken away from the earth: because of the iniquities of my people he was led to death.

For because of these things the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up; and their course is become evil, and so also their strength.

But thou, Israel, art my servant Jacob, and he whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraam, whom I have loved:

And they have set at nought my holy things, and in thee they have profaned my sabbaths.

My inheritance has become to me as a lion in a forest; she has uttered her voice against me; therefore have I hated her.

and the way of peace they know not, neither is there judgment in their ways; for their paths by which they go are crooked, and they know not peace.

And for all these things faithless Juda turned not to me with all her heart, but falsely.

Come from Libanus, my bride, come from Libanus: thou shalt come and pass from the top of Faith, from the top of Sanir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.

And she forsook not her fornication with the Egyptians: for in her youth they committed fornication with her, and they deflowered her, and poured out their fornication upon her.

When my soul was failing me, I remembered the Lord; and may my prayer come to thee into thy holy temple.

Who has devised this counsel against Tyre? Is she inferior? or has she no strength? her merchants were the glorious princes of the earth.

Even beforetime my people withstood him as an enemy against his peace; they have stripped off his skin to remove hope in the conflict of war.

Some of them hath he made high days, and hallowed them, and some of them hath he made ordinary days.

God is glorified in the council of the saints; great and terrible toward all that are round about him.

And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Sedekias before his eyes; and he slew all the princes of Juda in Deblatha.

and there shall be no remnant left of them; for I will bring evil upon the dwellers in Anathoth, in the year of their visitation.

Surely thou didst bend they bow at scepters, saith the Lord. Pause. The land of rivers shall be torn asunder.

And when the prince goes in, he shall go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and he shall go forth by the way of the gate.

A wise man in heart will receive commandments; but he that is unguarded in his lips shall be overthrown in his perverseness.

Hearken with great attention, and call thou Urias to the watch-tower: the Lord has spoken. I stood continually during the day, and I stood in the camp all night:

To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, according to the day of irritation in the wilderness:

The elders shall be troubled, and pangs shall seize them, as of a woman in travail: and they shall mourn one to another, and shall be amazed, and shall change their countenance as a flame.

And I will destroy the inhabitants out of Azotus, and a tribe shall be cut off from Ascalon, and I will stretch out my hand upon Accaron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord.

Remove far from me vanity and falsehood: and give me not wealth or poverty; but appoint me what is needful and sufficient:

And if they should say to him, Thou alone art ruler;

I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and the virtues of the field: if ye should find my kinsman, what are ye to say to him? That I am wounded with love.

None of his trespasses which he has committed shall be remembers: in his righteousness which he has done he shall live.

And he said to me, This is the water that goes forth to Galilee that lies eastward, and it is gone down to Arabia, and has reached as far as to the sea to the outlet of the water: and it shall heal the waters.

And, behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and I will strengthen thy power against their power.

Mine eye shall not spare, nor will I have any mercy: for I will recompense thy way upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

Bring to the Lord the glory becoming his name: take offerings, and go into his courts.

I am the Lord God: that is my name: I will not give my glory to another, nor my praises to graven images.

Then shall the virgins rejoice in the assembly of youth, and the old men shall rejoice; and I will turn their mourning into joy, and will make them merry.

And the strong shall find no confidence in power: the naked shall flee away in that day, saith the Lord.

And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go to this people? And I said, behold, I am here, send me. And he said, Go, and say to this people,

A lion shall roar, and who will not be alarmed? the Lord God has spoken, and who will not prophesy?

If thou know not thyself, thou fair one among women, go thou forth by the footsteps of the flocks, and feed thy kids by the shepherd's tents.

Thine apostasy shall correct thee, and thy wickedness shall reprove thee: know then, and see, that thy forsaking me has been bitter to thee, saith the Lord thy God; and I have taken no pleasure in thee, saith the Lord thy God.

The plains of Esebon shall mourn, the vine of Sebama: swallowing up the nations, trample ye her vines, even to Jazer: ye shall not come together; wander ye in the desert: they that were sent are deserted, for they have gone over to the sea.

He shall slay thy daughters that are in the field with the sword, and shall set a watch against thee, and build forts around thee, and carry a rampart round against thee, and set up warlike works, and array his spears against thee.

by provoking me with the works of your hands, to burn incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, into which ye entered to dwell there, that ye might be cut off, and that ye might become a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

he prepares food for himself in the summer, and lays by abundant store in harvest. Or go to the bee, and learn how diligent she is, and how earnestly she is engaged in her work; whose labours kings and private men use for health, and she is desired and respected by all: though weak in body, she is advanced by honouring wisdom.

And the land is filled with abominations, even the works of their hands; and they have worshipped the works which their fingers made.

Sion heard and rejoiced; and the daughters of Judea exulted, because of thy judgments, O Lord.

and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall send fire upon Egypt, and when all that help her shall be broken.

Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher; all is vanity.

Lawless men burn down a city: but wise men turn away wrath.

And from the borders of Juda, from the eastern parts shall be the offering of first-fruits, in the breadth twenty-five thousand reeds, and in length as one of the portions measured from the east even to the western parts: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of them.

In a little wrath I turned away my face from thee; but with everlasting mercy will I have compassion upon thee, saith the Lord that delivers thee.

For it is the day of judgment of the Lord, and the year of the recompence of Sion in judgment.

And he said, Is it not my people? the children surely will not be rebellious: and he became to them deliverance

Fighting and reproaching he will dismiss them; didst thou not meditate with a harsh spirit, to slay them with a wrathful spirit?

The rivers shall clap their hands together; the mountains shall exult.

And Baruch did according to all that Jeremias commanded himreading in the book the words of the Lord in the Lord's house.

Ye fear the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord.

and speaking, in the dark of the evening,