Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

And Abessalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, When ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then shall ye say, Abessalom is become king in Chebron.

He has attacked me with the keen glances of his eyes; with his sharp spear he has smitten me down upon my knees; and they have run upon me with one accord.

And Ephraim did not destroy the Chananite who dwelt in Gazer; and the Chananite dwelt in Ephraim until this day, until Pharao the king of Egypt went up and took it, and burnt it with fire; and the Chananites, and Pherezites, and the dwellers in Gaza they destroyed, and Pharao gave them for a dowry to his daughter.

But he looked on her, and said to her, Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women. If we have received good things of the hand of the Lord, shall we not endure evil things? In all these things that happened to him, Job sinned not at all with his lips before God.

And the men of Jabis said to Naas the Ammanite, To-morrow we will come forth to you, and ye shall do to us what seems good in your sight.

For thou, O God, has proved us; thou hast tried us with fire as silver is tried.

There they shall cry, and none shall hearken, even because of the insolence of wicked men.

Ye that mount a she-ass at noon-day, ye that sit on the judgment-seat, and walk by the roads of them that sit in judgment by the way; declare

But they vainly sought after my soul; they shall go into the lowest parts o the earth.

with which kings' daughters have gladdened thee for thine honour: the queen stood by on thy right hand, clothed in vesture wrought with gold, and arrayed in divers colours.

And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell by themselves, and shall be no more distressed; and the son of iniquity shall no more afflict them, as he has done from the beginning,

All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth to them that seek his covenant and his testimonies.

For I have eaten ashes as it were bread, and mingled my drink with weeping;

And he knows the divisions of the clouds, and the signal overthrows of the ungodly.

All the nations of the empire know, that whoever, man or woman, shall go in to the king into the inner court uncalled, that person cannot live: only to whomsoever the king shall stretch out his golden sceptre, he shall live: and I have not been called to go into the king, for these thirty days.

And Booz said, Blessed be thou of the Lord God, my daughter, for thou hast made thy latter kindness greater than the former, in that thou followest not after young men, whether any be poor or rich.

All the cities of Seon king of the Amorites, who reigned from Esebon to the coasts of the children of Ammon;

And he said to him, We are passing by from Bethleem Juda to the sides of mount Ephraim: I am from thence, and I went as far as Bethleem Juda, and I am going home, and there is no man to take me into his house.

yet he shall not at all be able to help himself; the gall of an asp is in his belly.

Yet he has discovered a charge against me, and he has reckoned me as an adversary.

and all that he did to the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond Jordan, to Seon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Basan, who dwelt in Astaroth and in Edrain.

Their cow does not cast her calf, and their beast with young is safe, and does not miscarry.

Even to him who gives salvation to kings: who redeems his servant David from the hurtful sword.

Pity me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with indignation, my soul and by belly.

And Respha the daughter of Aia took sackcloth, and fixed it for herself on the rock in the beginning of barley harvest, until water dropped upon them out of heaven: and she did not suffer the birds of the air to rest upon them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit in my inward parts.

And he went forth at noon, an the son of Ader was drinking and getting drunk in Socchoth, he and the kings, even thirty and two kings, his allies.

O Lord, save the king: and hear us in whatever day we call upon thee.

Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.

The Lord will weaken his adversary; the Lord is holy. Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor let the mighty man boast in his strength, and let not the rich man boast in his wealth; but let him that boasts boast in this, to understand and know the Lord, and to execute judgment and justice in the midst of the earth. The Lord has gone up to the heavens, and has thundered: he will judge the extremities of the earth, and he gives strength to our kings, and will exalt the horn of his Christ. And she left him there before the Lord,

And Abaissan died, and was buried in Bethleem.

We have thought of thy mercy, O God, in the midst of thy people.

Moreover we will take ten men for a hundred for all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred for a thousand, and a thousand for ten thousand, to take provision, to cause them to come to Gabaa of Benjamin, to do to it according to all the abomination, which they wrought in Israel.

He will not take pleasure in the strength of a horse; neither is he well-pleased with the legs of a man.

because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

The Lord also is become a refuge for the poor, a seasonable help, in affliction.

And a man saw it, and reported to Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Abessalom hanging in an oak.

And he carried him to his mother, and he lay upon her knees till noon, and died.

And Samuel was offering the whole-burnt-offering; and the Philistines drew near to war against Israel; and the Lord thundered with a mighty sound in that day upon the Philistines, and they were confounded and overthrown before Israel.

Thou hast smitten and wounded Edom, and thy heart has lifted thee up: stay at home and glorify thyself; for wherefore art thou quarrelsome to thy hurt? So both thou wilt fall and Juda with thee.

And Ju went forth to the servants of his lord, and they said to him, Is all well? Why came this mad fellow in to thee? And he said to them, Ye know the man, and his communication.

All my bones shall say, O Lord, who is like to thee? delivering the poor out of the hand of them that are stronger than he, yea, the poor and needy one from them that spoil him.

And Thou sent Jedduram his son to king David, to ask him of his welfare, and to congratulate him on his fighting against Adraazar and smiting him, for he was an enemy to Adraazar: and in his hands were vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass.

And the Lord prospered Job: and when he prayed also for his friends, he forgave them their sin: and the Lord gave Job twice as much, even the double of what he had before.

And Gedeon came, and behold a man was relating to his neighbour a dream, and he said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of barley bread rolling into the camp of Madiam, and it came as far as a tent, and smote it, and it fell, and it turned it up, and the tent fell.

And Joshua returned at that time, and took Asor and her king; now Asor in former time was the chief of these kingdoms.

Thou hast been scourged for but few of thy sins: thou hast spoken haughtily and extravagantly.

I was dumb, and opened not my mouth; for thou art he that made me.

And the third lot came out to Zabulon according to their families: the bounds of their inheritance shall beEsedekgola shall be their border,

will keep my strength, looking to thee; for thou, O God, art my helper.

Therefore snares have compassed thee, and disastrous war has troubled thee.

shall not these teach thee, and report to thee, and bring out words from their heart?

And they send away the ark of God to Ascalon; and it came to pass when the ark of God went into Ascalon, that the men of Ascalon cried out, saying, Why have ye brought back the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill us and our people?

For the ear tries words, and the palate tastes meats.

because it shut not up the gates of my mother's womb, for so it would have removed sorrow from my eyes.

he will not reprove you at all the less: but if moreover ye should secretly respect persons,

Therefore shall my people return hither: and full days shall be found with them.

Many are the scourges of the sinner: but him that hopes in the Lord mercy shall compass about.

And the king said to him, How often shall I adjure thee, that thou speak to me truth in the name of the Lord?

there is a deep gulf and a rushing stream beneath it, and thy table came down full of fatness. Judgment shall not fail from the righteous;

But the Lord thy God would not destroy thee; and he greatly blessed us, and rescued us out of their hands, and delivered them to us.

And David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

For the zeal of thine house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

And thou, and thy sons, and thy servants, shall till the land for him; and thou shalt bring in bread to the son of thy lord, and he shall eat bread: and Memphibosthe the son of thy lord shall eat bread continually at my table. Now Siba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Saruia? even let him alone, and so let him curse, for the Lord has told him to curse David: and who shall say, Why hast thou done thus?

For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light we shall see light.

Mine enemies shall be turned back, in the day wherein I shall call upon thee; behold, I know that thou art my God.

Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God; thy good Spirit shall guide me in the straight way.

Putting an end to wars as for the ends of the earth; he will crush the bow, and break in pieces the weapon, and burn the bucklers with fire.

And he bowed the heavens, and came down, and there was darkness under his feet.

wild beasts, and all cattle; reptiles, and winged birds:

And she was very much grieved in spirit, and prayed to the Lord, and wept abundantly.

For even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, lifted up his heel against me.

But if they should say thus to us, Come up to us; then will we go up, for the Lord has delivered them into our hands; this shall be a sign to us.

And the Philistines did so; and they took two cows that had calved for the first time, and yoked them to the waggon, and shut up their calves at home.

And they have wrongfully caused others to sleep without clothing, and taken away the morsel of the hungry.

And the elders of Galaad said to Jephthae, The Lord be witness between us, if we shall not do according to thy word.

And the rest of the people he gave into the hand of Abessa his brother, and they set the battle in array opposite to the children of Ammon.

And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people; and he went up, he and the elders before the people to Gai.

even them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death, fettered in poverty and iron;

Who smote many nations, and slew mighty kings;

And they came to Galaad of Jordan, which is in the land of Chanaan: and the children of Ruben, and the children of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasse built there an altar by Jordan, a great altar to look at.

But a man that has died is utterly gone; and when a mortal has fallen, he is no more.

In the thirty-seventh year of Joas king of Juda, Joas the son of Joachaz began to reign over Israel in Samaria sixteen years.

And he pursued them with four hundred men; and there remained behind two hundred men, who tarried on the other side of the brook Bosor.

what then shall I do if the Lord should try me? and if also he should at all visit me, can I make an answer?

The Lord will dwell on the waterflood: and the Lord will sit a king for ever.

who gives rain upon the earth, sending water on the earth:

He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor recompensed us according to our iniquities.

And the priest enquired of God for him, and gave him provision, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.

in whose hands are iniquities, and their right hand is filled with bribes.

the ten sons of Aman the son of Amadathes the Bugaean, the enemy of the Jews, and they plundered their property on the same day:

And the men of Juda said, Why are ye come up against us? and the Philistines said, We are come up to bind Sampson, and to do to him as he has done to us.

And now the Lord has kept me alive as he said: this is the forty-fifth year since the Lord spoke that word to Moses; and Israel journeyed in the wilderness; and now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.

And Eliu said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: if thou shalt see me when I am taken up from thee, then shall it be so to thee; and if not, it shall not be so.

His breath is as live coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

And the king took off his ring, and gave it into the hands of Aman, to seal the decrees against the Jews.

Then the king said to Aman, Thou hast well said: so do to Mardochaeus the Jew, who waits in the palace, and let not a word of what thou hast spoken be neglected.

and live to the end, so that he should not see corruption.

Hearken to my words; for I will speak in your hearing, until ye shall have tried the matter with words: