Psalms 121 — Coptic · Cairene

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Source: Coptic SCRIPTORIUM corpus "sahidic.ot", document 19_Psalms_0121

Attribution: Psalms 121 from Coptic SCRIPTORIUM (https://copticscriptorium.org), corpus sahidic.ot, document 19_Psalms_0121, version 6.1.0 (2025-06-30), annotations by Frank Feder, So Miyagawa, Elizabeth Platte, Caroline T. Schroeder, Amir Zeldes; source edition Crosswire, CoptOT. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this derivative is released under the same licence. CoptOT / Göttingen Digital Edition of the Coptic Old Testament, via Crosswire; English translation Brenton 1851 (ebible.org). Layers L1/L2 are modified: re-spelled (Cairene) / transliterated (Kemetic) by the Kemetic project, Yousef Hanna 2026.

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ref	L0 witness	L1 Cairene	L2 Kemetic	English
121:1	ⲧⲱⲇⲏ ⲛⲛⲧⲱⲣⲧⲣ ⲁⲓⲉⲩⲫⲣⲁⲛⲉ ⲉϫⲛⲛⲉⲛⲧⲁⲩϫⲟⲟⲥ ⲛⲁⲓ ϫⲉⲧⲛⲛⲁⲃⲱⲕ ⲉⲡⲏⲓ ⲙⲡϫⲟⲉⲓⲥ	ⲧ̀ⲱⲇⲏ ⲛ̀ⲛ̀ⲧⲱⲣⲧⲣ ⲁⲓⲉⲩⲫⲣⲁⲛⲉ ⲉ̀ϫⲉⲛ ⲛⲉⲧⲁⲩϫⲟⲥ ⲛⲏⲓ ϫⲉ ⲧⲉⲛⲛⲁⲃⲱⲕ ⲉ̀ⲡ̀ⲏⲓ ⲛ̀ⲡ̀ϭⲟⲓⲥ	t̀ōḋy ǹǹtōrtr aievfrane èjen netavgos nyi je tennavōk èp̀yi ǹp̀ċois	I was glad when they said to me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.
121:2	ⲛⲉⲣⲉⲛⲉⲛⲟⲩⲉⲣⲏⲧⲉ ⲁϩⲉⲣⲁⲧⲟⲩ ϩⲛⲛⲟⲩⲁⲩⲗⲏ ⲑⲓⲗ︤ⲏ︦ⲙ︥	ⲛⲁⲣⲉ ⲛⲉⲛⲟⲩⲉⲣⲏⲧⲉ ⲁϩⲉⲣⲁⲧⲟⲩ ϧⲉⲛ ⲛⲟⲩⲁⲩⲗⲏ ⲧⲓⲗⲏⲙ	nare nenoueryte aheratou xen nouavly tilym	Our feet stood in thy courts, O Jerusalem.
121:3	ⲑⲓⲗ︤ⲏ︦ⲙ︥ ⲉⲩⲕⲱⲧ ⲙⲙⲟⲥ ⲛⲑⲉ ⲛⲟⲩⲡⲟⲗⲓⲥ ⲉⲣⲉⲧⲉⲥⲙⲉⲧⲟⲭⲏ ϩⲓⲛⲉⲥⲉⲣⲏⲩ	ⲧⲓⲗⲏⲙ ⲉⲩⲕⲱⲧ ⲙ̀ⲙⲟⲥ ⲛ̀ⲫ̀ⲣⲏϯ ⲛ̀ⲟⲩⲡⲟⲗⲓⲥ ⲉ̀ⲣⲉⲧⲉⲥⲙⲉⲧⲟⲭⲏ ϩⲓ ⲛⲉⲥⲉⲣⲏⲟⲩ	tilym evkōt m̀mos ǹf̀ryti ǹoupolis èretesmetoky hi neseryou	Jerusalem is built as a city whose fellowship is complete.
121:4	ⲛⲧⲁⲛⲉⲫⲩⲗⲏ ⲅⲁⲣ ⲃⲱⲕ ⲉϩⲣⲁⲓ ⲉⲙⲁⲩ ⲛⲉⲫⲩⲗⲏ ⲙⲡϫⲟⲉⲓⲥ ⲡⲙⲛⲧⲣⲉ ⲙⲡⲓ︤ⲏ︦ⲗ︥ ⲉⲟⲩⲱⲛϩ ⲉⲃⲟⲗ ⲙⲡⲉⲕⲣⲁⲛ ⲡϫⲟⲉⲓⲥ	ⲉⲧⲁⲛ̀ⲫⲩⲗⲏ ⲅⲁⲣ ⲃⲱⲕ ⲉϩⲣⲁⲓ ⲙ̀ⲙⲁⲩ ⲛ̀ⲫⲩⲗⲏ ⲛ̀ⲡ̀ϭⲟⲓⲥ ⲡ̀ⲙⲉⲑⲣⲉ ⲛ̀ⲡⲓⲥⲣⲁⲏⲗ ⲉ̀ⲟⲩⲱⲛϩ ⲉ̀ⲃⲟⲗ ⲛ̀ⲡⲉⲕⲣⲁⲛ ⲡ̀ϭⲟⲓⲥ	etaǹfily ġar vōk ehrai m̀mav ǹfily ǹp̀ċois p̀meθre ǹpisrayl èouōnh èvol ǹpekran p̀ċois	For thither the tribes went up, the tribes of the Lord, as a testimony for Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord.
121:5	ϫⲉⲛⲧⲁⲩϩⲙⲟⲟⲥ ⲙⲙⲁⲩ ⲛϭⲓϩⲉⲛⲑⲣⲟⲛⲟⲥ ⲉⲩϩⲁⲡ ϩⲉⲛⲑⲣⲟⲛⲟⲥ ⲉⲡⲏⲓ ⲛⲇⲁⲩⲉⲓⲇ	ϫⲉ ⲛⲧⲁⲩϩⲉⲙⲥⲓ ⲙ̀ⲙⲁⲩ ⲛ̀ϫⲉ ϩⲁⲛⲑ̀ⲣⲟⲛⲟⲥ ⲉ̀ⲟⲩϩⲁⲡ ϩⲁⲛⲑ̀ⲣⲟⲛⲟⲥ ⲉ̀ⲡ̀ⲏⲓ ⲛ̀ⲇⲁⲩⲓⲇ	je ntavhemsi m̀mav ǹje hanθ̀ronos èouhap hanθ̀ronos èp̀yi ǹdavid	For there are set thrones for judgment, even thrones for the house of David.
121:6	ϣⲓⲛⲉ ⲛⲥⲁⲛⲉⲧϣⲟⲟⲡ ⲉⲩⲉⲓⲣⲏⲛⲏ ⲛⲑⲓⲗ︤ⲏ︦ⲙ︥ ⲁⲩⲱ ⲟⲩⲟⲩⲣⲟⲧ ⲛⲛⲉⲧⲙⲉ ⲙⲙⲟⲕ	ϣⲓⲛⲓ ⲛ̀ⲥⲁ ⲛⲉⲧϣⲟⲡ ⲉ̀ⲟⲩⲉⲓⲣⲏⲛⲏ ⲛ̀ⲧⲉ ⲧⲓⲗⲏⲙ ⲟⲩⲟϩ ⲟⲩⲟⲩⲣⲟⲧ ⲛ̀ⲛⲉⲧⲙⲉⲓ ⲙ̀ⲙⲟⲕ	ṡini ǹsa netṡop èoueiryny ǹte tilym ouoh ouourot ǹnetmei m̀mok	Pray now for the peace of Jerusalem: and let there be prosperity to them that love thee.
121:7	ⲙⲁⲣⲉⲟⲩⲉⲓⲣⲏⲛⲏ ϣⲱⲡⲉ ϩⲛⲧⲉⲕϭⲟⲙ ⲁⲩⲱ ⲟⲩⲟⲩⲣⲟⲧ ϩⲛⲛⲉⲕⲟⲩⲟⲙⲧⲉ	ⲙⲁⲣⲉⲟⲩⲉⲓⲣⲏⲛⲏ ϣⲱⲡⲓ ϧⲉⲛ ⲧⲉⲕϫⲟⲙ ⲟⲩⲟϩ ⲟⲩⲟⲩⲣⲟⲧ ϧⲉⲛ ⲛⲉⲕⲟⲩⲟⲙⲧⲉ	mareoueiryny ṡōpi xen tekgom ouoh ouourot xen nekouomte	Let peace, I pray, be within thine host, and prosperity in thy palaces.
121:8	ⲉⲧⲃⲉⲛⲁⲥⲛⲏⲩ ⲙⲛⲛⲉⲧϩⲓⲧⲟⲩⲱⲓ ⲛⲉⲓϫⲱ ⲇⲉ ⲛⲟⲩⲉⲓⲣⲏⲛⲏ ⲉⲧⲃⲏⲏⲧⲕ	ⲉⲑⲃⲉ ⲛⲁⲥ̀ⲛⲏⲟⲩ ⲛⲉⲙ ⲛⲉⲧϧⲁⲑⲟⲩⲓ ⲛⲁⲓϫⲱ ⲇⲉ ⲛ̀ⲟⲩⲉⲓⲣⲏⲛⲏ ⲉⲑⲃⲏⲧⲕ	eθve nas̀nyou nem netxaθoui naigō ḋe ǹoueiryny eθvytk	For the sake of my brethren and my neighbours, I have indeed spoken peace concerning thee.
121:9	ⲉⲧⲃⲉⲡⲏⲓ ⲙⲡϫⲟⲉⲓⲥ ⲡⲉⲛⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ ⲁⲓϣⲓⲛⲉ ⲛⲥⲁϩⲉⲛⲁⲅⲁⲑⲟⲛ	ⲉⲑⲃⲉ ⲡ̀ⲏⲓ ⲛ̀ⲡ̀ϭⲟⲓⲥ ⲡⲉⲛⲛⲟⲩϯ ⲁⲓϣⲓⲛⲓ ⲛ̀ⲥⲁ ϩⲁⲛⲁ̀ⲅⲁⲑⲟⲛ	eθve p̀yi ǹp̀ċois pennouti aiṡini ǹsa hanàġaθon	Because of the house of the Lord our God, I have diligently sought thy good.

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title: Psalms 121
dialect: sahidic
source: Coptic SCRIPTORIUM corpus "sahidic.ot", document 19_Psalms_0121
licence: CC-BY-SA 4.0
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attribution: Psalms 121 from Coptic SCRIPTORIUM (https://copticscriptorium.org), corpus sahidic.ot, document 19_Psalms_0121, version 6.1.0 (2025-06-30), annotations by Frank Feder, So Miyagawa, Elizabeth Platte, Caroline T. Schroeder, Amir Zeldes; source edition Crosswire, CoptOT. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this derivative is released under the same licence. CoptOT / Göttingen Digital Edition of the Coptic Old Testament, via Crosswire; English translation Brenton 1851 (ebible.org). Layers L1/L2 are modified: re-spelled (Cairene) / transliterated (Kemetic) by the Kemetic project, Yousef Hanna 2026.
annotation: segmentation automatic · tagging automatic · parsing automatic (SCRIPTORIUM meta.json; document version 6.1.0, 2025-06-30)
file: Bible/Old Testament/Psalms/0121.sahidic.scriptorium.L0.txt
title: Psalms 121 — Cairene
dialect: bohairic
source: generated from 0121.sahidic.scriptorium.L0.txt (Coptic SCRIPTORIUM corpus "sahidic.ot", document 19_Psalms_0121)
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attribution: Psalms 121 from Coptic SCRIPTORIUM (https://copticscriptorium.org), corpus sahidic.ot, document 19_Psalms_0121, version 6.1.0 (2025-06-30), annotations by Frank Feder, So Miyagawa, Elizabeth Platte, Caroline T. Schroeder, Amir Zeldes; source edition Crosswire, CoptOT. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this derivative is released under the same licence. CoptOT / Göttingen Digital Edition of the Coptic Old Testament, via Crosswire; English translation Brenton 1851 (ebible.org). Layers L1/L2 are modified: re-spelled (Cairene) / transliterated (Kemetic) by the Kemetic project, Yousef Hanna 2026.
annotation: segmentation automatic · tagging automatic · parsing automatic (SCRIPTORIUM meta.json; document version 6.1.0, 2025-06-30)
generated by: tools/sahidic_to_cairene.py (route D, C3a 2026-09-24; tier b, ROUTE-2 2026-09-26) then tools/cairene.py from_witness dialect=bohairic on the intermediate (L1 = Cairene(N_B(D(N_S(L0)))), RI-038; word division church); Sahidic N stage counts: abbrev=1 lexeme_L1-S-5=1 stroke_kept=3 stroke_unified=12 th_resolved=1 tokens=64
file: Bible/Old Testament/Psalms/0121.sahidic.scriptorium.L1.txt
title: Psalms 121 — Kemetic
dialect: bohairic
source: generated from 0121.sahidic.scriptorium.L1.txt
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attribution: Psalms 121 from Coptic SCRIPTORIUM (https://copticscriptorium.org), corpus sahidic.ot, document 19_Psalms_0121, version 6.1.0 (2025-06-30), annotations by Frank Feder, So Miyagawa, Elizabeth Platte, Caroline T. Schroeder, Amir Zeldes; source edition Crosswire, CoptOT. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this derivative is released under the same licence. CoptOT / Göttingen Digital Edition of the Coptic Old Testament, via Crosswire; English translation Brenton 1851 (ebible.org). Layers L1/L2 are modified: re-spelled (Cairene) / transliterated (Kemetic) by the Kemetic project, Yousef Hanna 2026.
annotation: segmentation automatic · tagging automatic · parsing automatic (SCRIPTORIUM meta.json; document version 6.1.0, 2025-06-30)
generated by: tools/coptic_to_kemetic.py convert() on the L1 text (letter rules of DECISIONS.md 2026-09-08)
file: Bible/Old Testament/Psalms/0121.sahidic.scriptorium.L2.txt
what it is: DRAFT English. Not a published translation: `existing` rows quote an aligned translation named in `basis`; `llm` rows are a language-model best guess from the dictionary gloss and context (Yousef asked for them, 2026-09-27; to be corrected later); check the source text before relying on any of it.
lines: 9 quoted · 0 quoted with the alignment not cross-checked · 0 model drafts (marked “draft”)
quoted from: Brenton's Septuagint (1851), Psalms 121:1 — Coptic SCRIPTORIUM sahidic.ot, 19_Psalms_0121, verse 121:1, re-aligned by content (PSALTER): SCRIPTORIUM attaches its Psalter English by verse number, where its Coptic divides the verses otherwise (translation/psalter_alignment.tsv: aligned · both releases) (1 lines)
quoted from: Brenton's Septuagint (1851), Psalms 121:2 — Coptic SCRIPTORIUM sahidic.ot, 19_Psalms_0121, verse 121:2, re-aligned by content (PSALTER): SCRIPTORIUM attaches its Psalter English by verse number, where its Coptic divides the verses otherwise (translation/psalter_alignment.tsv: aligned · both releases) (1 lines)
quoted from: Brenton's Septuagint (1851), Psalms 121:3 — Coptic SCRIPTORIUM sahidic.ot, 19_Psalms_0121, verse 121:3, re-aligned by content (PSALTER): SCRIPTORIUM attaches its Psalter English by verse number, where its Coptic divides the verses otherwise (translation/psalter_alignment.tsv: aligned · both releases) (1 lines)
quoted from: Brenton's Septuagint (1851), Psalms 121:4 — Coptic SCRIPTORIUM sahidic.ot, 19_Psalms_0121, verse 121:4, re-aligned by content (PSALTER): SCRIPTORIUM attaches its Psalter English by verse number, where its Coptic divides the verses otherwise (translation/psalter_alignment.tsv: aligned · both releases) (1 lines)
quoted from: Brenton's Septuagint (1851), Psalms 121:5 — Coptic SCRIPTORIUM sahidic.ot, 19_Psalms_0121, verse 121:5, re-aligned by content (PSALTER): SCRIPTORIUM attaches its Psalter English by verse number, where its Coptic divides the verses otherwise (translation/psalter_alignment.tsv: aligned · both releases) (1 lines)
quoted from: Brenton's Septuagint (1851), Psalms 121:6 — Coptic SCRIPTORIUM sahidic.ot, 19_Psalms_0121, verse 121:6, re-aligned by content (PSALTER): SCRIPTORIUM attaches its Psalter English by verse number, where its Coptic divides the verses otherwise (translation/psalter_alignment.tsv: aligned · both releases) (1 lines)
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Psalms 121. Coptic SCRIPTORIUM corpus "sahidic.ot", document 19_Psalms_0121. Layers as published by the Kemetic project (Yousef Hanna), 2026: Coptic · Cairene · Kemetic, /doc/bible/old-testament/psalms/0121.sahidic.scriptorium/. Psalms 121 from Coptic SCRIPTORIUM (https://copticscriptorium.org), corpus sahidic.ot, document 19_Psalms_0121, version 6.1.0 (2025-06-30), annotations by Frank Feder, So Miyagawa, Elizabeth Platte, Caroline T. Schroeder, Amir Zeldes; source edition Crosswire, CoptOT. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this derivative is released under the same licence. CoptOT / Göttingen Digital Edition of the Coptic Old Testament, via Crosswire; English translation Brenton 1851 (ebible.org). Layers L1/L2 are modified: re-spelled (Cairene) / transliterated (Kemetic) by the Kemetic project, Yousef Hanna 2026.

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L0 witness
The text as its witness or edition has it, original spelling; its dialect is a description and is never standardized.

L0.5 transliteration
For Egyptian texts: the transliteration with the editors' marks turned into the symbols ° * < > _ ^ (ruled 2026-09-10). For papyri: the edition's Leiden marks as the same symbols, and the editors' readings beside the scribe's as ‹scribe→editors› (ruled PAP-3).

L1 Cairene
Standardized Greco-Bohairic spelling and grammar, generated by code from the layer above under the rulings of the project.

L2 Kemetic
The Kemetic alphabet, generated by code from L1.

English
Quoted translations where they exist, credited; otherwise model drafts, marked as drafts.