And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves molten images, idols skilfully made of their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. Sacrifice to these, they say. Men kiss calves!
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And now they have sinned increasingly, and have made for themselves a molten image of their silver, according to the fashion of idols, the work of artificers accomplished for them: they say, Sacrifice men, for the calves have come to an end.
Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
Therefore shall they be as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that passes away, as chaff blown away from the threshing-floor, and as a vapor from tears.
I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no saviour.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
But I am the Lord thy God that establishes the heaven, and creates the earth, whose hands have framed the whole host of heaven: but I shewed them not to thee that thou shouldest go after them: and I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no God but me; and there is no Saviour beside me.
I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs, I will tear open their breast, and there I will devour them like a lion, as a wild beast would rend them.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
I will meet them by the way of the Assyrians, as a she-bear excited, and I will rend the caul of their heart, and the lions’ whelps of the thicket shall devour them there; the wild beasts of the field shall rend them in pieces.
Ⲁϥⲑⲱⲛ ⲡⲉⲕϩⲁⲡ ⲫⲙⲟⲩ ⲁⲥⲑⲱⲛ ⲧⲉⲕⲥⲟⲩⲣⲓ ⲁⲙⲉⲛϯ ⲁϥϩⲱⲡ ⲉ̀ⲃⲟⲗ ϩⲁ ⲛⲁⲃⲁⲗ ⲛ̀ϫⲉ ⲟⲩϯⲛⲟⲙϯ where is thy penalty, O death? O Hades, where is thy sting? comfort is hidden from mine eyes.
English (Standard • WEB)
Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death? O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your destruction? Compassion is hid from my eyes.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
I will deliver them out of the power of Hades, and will redeem them from death:
Though he may flourish as the reed plant, the east wind, the wind of the Lord, shall come, rising from the wilderness; and his fountain shall dry up, his spring shall be parched; it shall strip his treasury of every precious thing.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
Forasmuch as he will cause a division among his brethren, the Lord shall bring upon him an east wind from the desert, and shall dry up his veins and quite drain his fountains: he shall dry up his land, and spoil all his precious vessels.
Samar′ia shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword, their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
Samaria shall be utterly destroyed: for she has resisted her God; they shall fall by the sword, and their sucklings shall be dashed against the ground, and their women with child ripped up.