Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

The words of a wise mouth are gracious: but the lips of a fool will swallow him up.

And moreover, my son, guard thyself by means of them: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

So long as the king was at table, my spikenard gave forth its smell.

The flowers are seen in the land; the time of pruning has arrived; the voice of the turtle-dove has been heard in our land.

My sister, my spouse is a garden enclosed; a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed.

Return, return, O Sunamite; return, return, and we will look at thee. What will ye see in the Sunamite? She comes as bands of armies.

Let us go early into the vineyards; let us see if the vine has flowered, if the blossoms have appeared, if the pomegranates have blossomed; there will I give thee my breasts.

My vineyard, even mine, is before me; Solomon shall have a thousand, and they that keep its fruit two hundred.

neither shall ye come with these to appear before me; for who has required these things at your hands? Ye shall no more tread my court.

For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and haughty, and upon every one that is high and towering, and they shall be brought down;

O my people, your exactors strip you, and extortioners rule over you: O my people, they that pronounce you blesses lead you astray, and pervert the path of your feet.

For they drink wine with harp, and psaltery, and drums, and pipes: but they regard not the works of the Lord, and consider not the works of his hands.

And after this God shall remove the men far off, and they that are left upon the land shall be multiplied.

And Achaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord.

Let them not say, It is hard, for whatsoever this people says, is hard: but fear not ye their fear, neither be dismayed.

even Syria from the rising of the sun, and the Greeks from the setting of the sun, who devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but still his hand is exalted.

And it shall come to pass, when the Lord shall have finished doing all things on Mount Sion and Jerusalem, that I will visit upon the proud heart, even upon the ruler of the Assyrians, and upon the boastful haughtiness of his eyes.

And he shall lift up a standard for the nations, and he shall gather the lost ones of Israel, and he shall gather the dispersed of Juda from the four corners of the earth.

And they that are left shall be more precious than gold tried in the fire; and a man shall be more precious than the stone that is in Suphir.

How has Lucifer, that rose in the morning, fallen from heaven! He that sent orders to all the nations is crushed to the earth.

And it shall be to thy shame, (for Moab is wearied at the altars,) that he shall go in to the idols thereof to pray, but they shall not be at all able to deliver him.

Woe to the multitude of many nations, as the swelling sea, so shall ye be confounded; and the force of many nations shall sound like water;

Where are now thy wise men? and let them declare to thee, and say, What has the Lord of hosts purposed upon Egypt?

I watch in the morning and the night: if thou wouldest enquire, enquire, and dwell by me.

And the Lord, the Lord of hosts, called in that day for weeping, and lamentation, and baldness, and for girding with sackcloth:

And men shall say, Ye shall no longer at all continue to insult and injure the daughter of Sidon: and if thou depart to the Citians, neither there shalt thou have rest.

And cities shall be left desolate, and houses being left shall fall to ruin.

And he shall bring down the height of the refuge of the wall, and it shall come down even to the ground.

O Lord our God, give us peace: for thou hast rendered to us all things.

And it shall come to pass in that day that God shall fence men off from the channel of the river as far as Rhinocorura; but do ye gather one by one the children of Israel.

This is the rest to him that is hungry, and this is the calamity: but they would not hear.

And this book shall be given into the hands of a man that is unlearned, and one shall say to him, Read this; and he shall say, I am not learned.

Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye have refused to obey these words, and have trusted in falsehood; and because thou hast murmured, and been confident in this respect:

and beat your breasts, because of the pleasant field, and the fruit of the vine.

And the nations shall be burnt up; as a thorn in the field cast out and burnt up.

Her princes shall be no more; for her kings and her great men shall be destroyed.

And Rabsaces said to them, Has my lord sent me to your lord or to you, to speak these words? has he not sent me to the men that sit on the wall, that they may eat dung, and drink their water together with you?

If thou sit at a bountiful table, be not greedy upon it, and say not, There is much meat on it.

Have the gods of the nations which my fathers destroyed delivered them, both Gozan, and Charrhan, and Rapheth, which are in the land of Theemath?

My life has failed from among my kindred: I have parted with the remainder of my life: it has gone forth and departed from me, as one that having pitched a tent takes it down again: my breath was with me as a weaver's web, when she that weaves draws nigh to cut off the thread.

Who has measured the water in his hand, and the heaven with a span, and all the earth in a handful? Who has weighed the mountains in scales, and the forests in a balance?

Thou shalt seek them, and thou shalt not find the men who shall insolently rage against thee: for they shall be as if they were not, and they that war against thee shall not be.

They shall give glory to God, and shall proclaim his praises in the islands.

I have declared, and have saved; I have reproached, and there was no strange god among you: ye are my witnesses, and I am the Lord God,

For the artificer sharpens the iron; he fashions the idol with an axe, and fixes it with an awl, and fashions it with the strength of his arm: and he will be hungry and weak, and will drink no water.

I have made the earth, and man upon it: I with my hand have established the heaven; I have given commandment to all the stars.

Hearken to me, ye senseless ones, that are far from righteousness:

Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the abundance of thy sorcery, which thou hast learned from thy youth; if thou canst be profited.

Hear me, O Jacob, and Israel whom I call; I am the first, and I endure for ever.

Behold, these shall come from far: and these from the north and the west, and others from the land of the Persians.

I, even I, am he that comforts thee: consider who thou art, that thou wast afraid of mortal man, and of the son of man, who are withered as grass.

For ye shall not go forth with tumult, neither go by flight: for the Lord shall go first in advance of you; and the God of Israel shall be he that brings up your rear.

Therefore he shall inherit many, and he shall divide the spoils of the mighty; because his soul was delivered to death: and he was numbered among the transgressors; and he bore the sins of many, and was delivered because of their iniquities.

and I will make thy buttresses jasper, and thy gates crystal, and thy border precious stones.

For ye shall go forth with joy, and shall be taught with gladness: for the mountains and the hills shall exult to welcome you with joy, and all the trees of the field shall applaud with their branches.

And I will declare thy righteousness, and thy sins, which shall not profit thee.

And thy old waste desert places shall be built up, and thy foundations shall last through all generations; and thou shalt be called a repairer of breaches, and thou shalt cause thy paths between to be in peace.

For our iniquity is great before thee, and our sins have risen up against us: for our iniquities are in us, and we know our unrighteous deeds.

For the nations and the kings which will not serve thee shall perish; and those nations shall be made utterly desolate.

And one shall call them the holy people, the redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be called a city sought out, and not forsaken.

who led Moses with his right hand, the arm of his glory? he forced the water to separate from before him, to make himself an everlasting name.

I will deliver you up to the sword, ye shall all fall by slaughter: for I called you, and ye hearkened not; I spoke, and ye refused to hear; and ye did evil in my sight, and chose the things wherein I delighted not.

For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I turn toward them as a river of peace, and as a torrent bringing upon them in a flood the glory of the Gentiles: their children shall be borne upon the shoulders, and comforted on the knees.

How wilt thou say, I am not polluted, and have not gone after Baal? behold thy ways in the burial-ground, and know what thou hast done: her voice has howled in the evening:

In those days and at that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord; and all the nations shall be gathered to it: and they shall not walk any more after the imaginations of their evil heart.

I looked, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky were scared.

Hear ye now these things, O foolish and senseless people; who have eyes, and see not; and have ears, and hear not:

Thus saith the Lord, Gather your whole-burnt-offerings with your meat-offerings, and eat flesh.

Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, and let not the strong man boast in his strength, and let not the rich man boast in his wealth;

Such is not the portion of Jacob; for he that formed all things, he is his inheritance; the Lord is his name.

The ravagers are come to every passage in the wilderness: for the sword of the Lord will devour from one end of the land to the other: no flesh has any peace.

Say ye to the king and the princes, Humble yourselves, and sit down; for your crown of glory is removed from your head.

for though they fast, I will not hear their supplication; and though they offer whole-burnt-offerings and sacrifices, I will take no pleasure in them: for I will consume them with sword, and with famine, and with pestilence.

Yea, I will give thy treasures for a spoil as a recompence, because of all thy sins and that in all thy borders.

O Lord, thou art my strength, and mine help, and my refuge in days of evil: to thee the Gentiles shall come from the end of the earth, and shall say, How vain were the idols which our fathers procured to themselves, and there is no help in them.

But they hearkened not, and inclined not their ear, but stiffened their neck more than their fathers did, so as not to hear me, and not to receive correction.

There take thy pastime, and do what thou wilt: but sin not by proud speech.

but in that place whither I have carried him captive, there shall he die, and shall see this land no more.

I sent not the prophets, yet they ran: neither spoke I to them, yet they prophesied.

Proclaim it at Magdol, and declare it at Memphis: say ye, Stand up, and prepare; for the sword has devoured thy yew-tree.

and prevail against her: her hands are weakened, her bulwarks are fallen, and her wall is broken down: for it is vengeance from God: take vengeance upon her; as she has done, do to her.

The earth has quaked and been troubled, because the purpose of the Lord has risen up against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, and uninhabitable.

A snare, and fear, and the pit, are upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab.

For I am beginning to afflict the city whereon my name is called, and ye shall by no means be held guiltless: for I am calling a sword upon all that dwell upon the earth.

Then Jeremias spoke to the princes, and to all the people, saying, The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city, all the words which ye have heard.

Prepare thyself, O Sion; execute vengeance; look to thy ways: return, O virgin of Israel, by the way by which thou wentest, return mourning to thy cities.

And I charged Baruch in their presence, saying, Thus saith the Lord Almighty;

Thus saith the Lord of hosts; There shall yet be in this place, that is desert for want of man and beast, in all the cities thereof, resting-places for shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

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

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

And he went down to the king's house, into the house of the scribe: and, behold, there were sitting there all the princes, Elisama the scribe, and Dalaeas the son of Selemias, and Jonathan the son of Acchobor, and Gamarias the son of Saphan, and Sedekias the son of Ananias, and all the princes.

that Jeremias went forth from Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to buy thence a property in the midst of the people.

And he said, Put these under the ropes. And Jeremias did so.

And they came to Godolias into the land of Juda, to Massepha, and gathered grapes, and very much summer fruit, and oil.

And they brought all their army, and went to fight against him, and found him near much water in Gabaon.

And I will grant you mercy, and pity you, and will restore you to your land.

And he shall kindle a fire in the houses of their gods, and shall burn them, and shall carry them away captives: and shall search the land of Egypt, as a shepherd searches his garment; and he shall go forth in peace.

to destroy all the remnant that are in Egypt; and they shall fall by the sword, and by famine, and shall be consumed small and great: and they shall be for reproach, and for destruction, and for a curse.

And the host of the Chaldeans that was with the captain of the guard pulled down all the wall of Jerusalem round about.