2 Let not your spirit be troubled on account of the times;
For the Holy
and Great One has appointed days for all things.
3 And the righteous one shall arise from sleep,
[Shall arise] and walk
in the paths of righteousness,
And all his path and conversation shall be
in eternal goodness and grace.
4 He will be gracious to the righteous and give him eternal uprightness,
And He will give him power so that he shall be (endowed) with goodness and
righteousness.
And he shall walk in eternal light.
5 And sin shall perish in darkness for ever,
And shall no more be seen
from that day for evermore.
2 And there upon Methuselah went and summoned to him all his brothers and
assembled his relatives.
3 And he spake unto all the children of
righteousness and said:
'Hear, ye sons of Enoch, all the words of your father,
And hearken
aright to the voice of my mouth;
For I exhort you and say unto you,
beloved:
4 Love uprightness and walk therein.
And draw not nigh to uprightness
with a double heart,
And associate not with those of a double heart,
But walk in righteousness, my sons.
And it shall guide you on good
paths,
And righteousness shall be your companion.
5 For I know that violence must increase on the earth,
And a great
chastisement be executed on the earth,
And all unrighteousness come to an
end:
Yea, it shall be cut off from its roots,
And its whole structure be
destroyed.
6 And unrighteousness shall again be consummated on the earth,
And all
the deeds of unrighteousness and of violence
And transgression shall
prevail in a twofold degree.
7 And when sin and unrighteousness and blasphemy
And violence in all
kinds of deeds increase,
And apostasy and transgression and uncleanness
increase,
A great chastisement shall come from heaven upon all these,
And the
holy Lord will come forth with wrath and chastisement
To execute judgement
on earth.
8 In those days violence shall be cut off from its roots,
And the roots
of unrighteousness together with deceit,
And they shall be destroyed from
under heaven.
9 And all the idols of the heathen shall be abandoned,
And the temples
burned with fire,
And they shall remove them from the whole earth,
And they (i.e. the heathen) shall be cast into the judgement of fire,
And shall perish in wrath and in grievous judgement for ever.
10 And the righteous shall arise from their sleep,
And wisdom shall
arise and be given unto them.
' Concerning the children of righteousness and concerning the elect of the
world,
And concerning the plant of uprightness, I will speak these things,
Yea, I Enoch will declare (them) unto you, my sons:
According to that which appeared to me in the heavenly vision,
And
which I have known through the word of the holy angels,
And have learnt
from the heavenly tablets.'
3 And Enoch began to recount from the books and said:
' I was born the
seventh in the first week,
While judgement and righteousness still
endured.
4 And after me there shall arise in the second week great wickedness,
And deceit shall have sprung up;
And in it there shall be the first
end.
And in it a man shall be saved;
And after it is ended unrighteousness
shall grow up,
And a law shall be made for the sinners.
And after that in the third week at its close
A man shall be elected as
the plant of righteous judgement,
And his posterity shall become the plant
of righteousness for evermore.
6 And after that in the fourth week, at its close,
Visions of the holy
and righteous shall be seen,
And a law for all generations and an
enclosure shall be made for them.
7 And after that in the fifth week, at its close,
The house of glory
and dominion shall be built for ever.
8 And after that in the sixth week all who live in it shall be blinded,
And the hearts of all of them shall godlessly forsake wisdom.
And in it a man shall ascend;
And at its close the house of dominion
shall be burnt with fire,
And the whole race of the chosen root shall be
dispersed.
9 And after that in the seventh week shall an apostate generation arise,
And many shall be its deeds,
And all its deeds shall be apostate.
10 And at its close shall be elected
The elect righteous of the eternal
plant of righteousness,
To receive sevenfold instruction concerning all
His creation.
11 [For who is there of all the children of men that is able to hear the voice of the Holy One without being troubled ? And who can think His thoughts ? and who is there that can behold all the works 12 of heaven ? And how should there be one who could behold the heaven, and who is there that could understand the things of heaven and see a soul or a spirit and could tell thereof, or ascend and see 13 all their ends and think them or do like them ? And who is there of all men that could know what is the breadth and the length of the earth, and to whom has been shown the measure of all of them ? 14 Or is there any one who could discern the length of the heaven and how great is its height, and upon what it is founded, and how great is the number of the stars, and where all the luminaries rest ?]
13 And at its close they shall acquire houses through their righteousness,
And a house shall be built for the Great King in glory for evermore,
14d And all mankind shall look to the path of uprightness.
14a And after that, in the ninth week, the righteous judgement shall be
revealed to the whole world,
b And all the works of the godless shall
vanish from all the earth,
c And the world shall be written down for
destruction.
15 And after this, in the tenth week in the seventh part,
There shall
be the great eternal judgement,
In which He will execute vengeance amongst
the angels.
16 And the first heaven shall depart and pass away,
And a new heaven
shall appear,
And all the powers of the heavens shall give sevenfold
light.
17 And after that there will be many weeks without number for ever,
And
all shall be in goodness and righteousness,
And sin shall no more be
mentioned for ever.
2 And to certain men of a generation shall the paths of violence and of
death be revealed,
And they shall hold themselves afar from them,
And
shall not follow them.
3 And now I say unto you the righteous:
Walk not in the paths of
wickedness, nor in the paths of death,
And draw not nigh to them, lest ye
be destroyed.
4 But seek and choose for yourselves righteousness and an elect life,
And walk in the paths of peace,
And ye shall live and prosper.
5 And hold fast my words in the thoughts of your hearts,
And suffer
them not to be effaced from your hearts;
For I know that sinners will tempt men to evilly-entreat wisdom,
So
that no place may be found for her,
And no manner of temptation may
minish.
6 Woe to those who build unrighteousness and oppression
And lay deceit
as a foundation;
For they shall be suddenly overthrown,
And they shall
have no peace.
7 Woe to those who build their houses with sin;
For from all their
foundations shall they be overthrown,
And by the sword shall they fall.
[And those who acquire gold and silver in judgement suddenly shall
perish.]
8 Woe to you, ye rich, for ye have trusted in your riches,
And from
your riches shall ye depart,
Because ye have not remembered the Most High
in the days of your riches.
9 Ye have committed blasphemy and unrighteousness,
And have become
ready for the day of slaughter,
And the day of darkness and the day of the
great judgement.
10 Thus I speak and declare unto you:
He who hath created you will
overthrow you,
And for your fall there shall be no compassion,
And
your Creator will rejoice at your destruction.
11 And your righteous ones in those days shall be
A reproach to the
sinners and the godless.
2 who has permitted you to practice reproaches and wickedness ?
And so
judgement shall overtake you, sinners.
3 Fear not the sinners, ye righteous;
For again will the Lord deliver
them into your hands,
That ye may execute judgement upon them according to
your desires.
4 Woe to you who fulminate anathemas which cannot be reversed:
Healing
shall therefore be far from you because of your sins.
5 Woe to you who requite your neighbour with evil;
For ye shall be
requited according to your works.
6 Woe to you, lying witnesses,
And to those who weigh out injustice,
For suddenly shall ye perish.
7 Woe to you, sinners, for ye persecute the righteous;
For ye shall be
delivered up and persecuted because of injustice,
And heavy shall its yoke
be upon you.
2 [And in the day of the tribulation of the sinners,
Your children
shall mount and rise as eagles,
And higher than the vultures will be your
nest,
And ye shall ascend and enter the crevices of the earth,
And the
clefts of the rock for ever as coneys before the unrighteous,
And the
sirens shall sigh because of you-and weep.]
3 Wherefore fear not, ye that have suffered;
For healing shall be your
portion,
And a bright light shall enlighten you,
And the voice of rest
ye shall hear from heaven.
4 Woe unto you, ye sinners, for your riches make you appear like the
righteous,
But your hearts convict you of being sinners,
And this fact
shall be a testimony against you for a memorial of (your) evil deeds.
5 Woe to you who devour the finest of the wheat,
And drink wine in
large bowls,
And tread under foot the lowly with your might.
6 Woe to you who drink water from every fountain,
For suddenly shall ye
be consumed and wither away,
Because ye have forsaken the fountain of
life.
7 Woe to you who work unrighteousness
And deceit and blasphemy:
It
shall be a memorial against you for evil.
8 Woe to you, ye mighty,
Who with might oppress the righteous;
For
the day of your destruction is coming.
In those days many and good days shall come to the righteous-in the day of your judgement.
3 What will ye do, ye sinners,
And whither will ye flee on that day of
judgement,
When ye hear the voice of the prayer of the righteous ?
4 Yea, ye shall fare like unto them,
Against whom this word shall be a
testimony:
" Ye have been companions of sinners."
5 And in those days the prayer of the righteous shall reach unto the Lord,
And for you the days of your judgement shall come.
6 And all the words of your unrighteousness shall be read out before the
Great Holy One,
And your faces shall be covered with shame,
And He will
reject every work which is grounded on unrighteousness.
7 Woe to you, ye sinners, who live on the mid ocean and on the dry
land,
Whose remembrance is evil against you.
8 Woe to you who acquire silver and gold in unrighteousness and say:
"
We have become rich with riches and have possessions;
And have acquired
everything we have desired.
9 And now let us do what we purposed:
For we have gathered silver,
9c And many are the husbandmen in our houses."
9d And our granaries
are (brim) full as with water,
10 Yea and like water your lies shall flow
away;
For your riches shall not abide
But speedily ascend from you;
For ye have acquired it all in unrighteousness,
And ye shall be given
over to a great curse.
2 For ye men shall put on more adornments than a woman,
And coloured
garments more than a virgin:
In royalty and in grandeur and in power,
And in silver and in gold and in purple,
And in splendour and in food
they shall be poured out as water.
3 Therefore they shall be wanting in doctrine and wisdom,
And they
shall perish thereby together with their possessions;
And with all their
glory and their splendour,
And in shame and in slaughter and in great
destitution,
Their spirits shall be cast into the furnace of fire.
4 I have sworn unto you, ye sinners, as a mountain has not become a slave,
And a hill does not become the handmaid of a woman,
Even so sin has
not been sent upon the earth,
But man of himself has created it,
And
under a great curse shall they fall who commit it.
5 And barrenness has not been given to the woman,
But on account of the
deeds of her own hands she dies without children.
6 I have sworn unto you, ye sinners, by the Holy Great One,
That all
your evil deeds are revealed in the heavens,
And that none of your deeds
of oppression are covered and hidden.
7 And do not think in your spirit nor say in your heart that ye do not know and that ye do not see 8 that every sin is every day recorded in heaven in the presence of the Most High. From henceforth ye know that all your oppression wherewith ye oppress is written down every day till the day of your judgement. 9 Woe to you, ye fools, for through your folly shall ye perish: and ye transgress against the wise, 10 and so good hap shall not be your portion. And now, know ye that ye are prepared for the day of destruction: wherefore do not hope to live, ye sinners, but ye shall depart and die; for ye know no ransom; for ye are prepared for the day of the great judgement, for the day of tribulation and great shame for your spirits. 11 Woe to you, ye obstinate of heart, who work wickedness and eat blood: Whence have ye good things to eat and to drink and to be filled ? From all the good things which the Lord the Most High has placed in abundance on the earth; therefore ye shall have no peace. 12 Woe to you who love the deeds of unrighteousness: wherefore do ye hope for good hap unto yourselves? know that ye shall be delivered into the hands of the righteous, and they shall cut 3 off your necks and slay you, and have no mercy upon you. Woe to you who rejoice in the tribulation of the righteous; for no grave shall be dug for you. Woe to you who set at nought the words of 5 the righteous; for ye shall have no hope of life. Woe to you who write down lying and godless words; for they write down their lies that men may hear them and act godlessly towards (their) 6 neighbour. Therefore they shall have no peace but die a sudden death.
2 Woe to them who pervert the words of uprightness,
And transgress the
eternal law,
And transform themselves into what they were not [into
sinners]:
They shall be trodden under foot upon the earth.
3 In those days make ready, ye righteous, to raise your prayers as a
memorial,
And place them as a testimony before the angels,
That they
may place the sin of the sinners for a memorial before the Most High.
4 In those days the nations shall be stirred up,
And the families of
the nations shall arise on the day of destruction.
5 And in those days the destitute shall go forth and carry off their
children,
And they shall abandon them, so that their children shall perish
through them:
Yea, they shall abandon their children (that are still)
sucklings, and not return to them,
And shall have no pity on their beloved
ones.
6, 7 And again I swear to you, ye sinners, that sin is prepared for a day of unceasing bloodshed. And they who worship stones, and grave images of gold and silver and wood (and stone) and clay, and those who worship impure spirits and demons, and all kinds of idols not according to knowledge, shall get no manner of help from them.
8 And they shall become godless by reason of the folly of their hearts,
And their eyes shall be blinded through the fear of their hearts
And
through visions in their dreams.
9 Through these they shall become godless and fearful;
For they shall
have wrought all their work in a lie,
And shall have worshiped a stone:
Therefore in an instant shall they perish.
10 But in those days blessed are all they who accept the words of wisdom,
and understand them,
And observe the paths of the Most High, and walk in
the path of His righteousness,
And become not godless with the godless;
For they shall be saved.
11 Woe to you who spread evil to your neighbours;
For you shall be
slain in Sheol.
12 Woe to you who make deceitful and false measures,
And (to them) who
cause bitterness on the earth;
For they shall thereby be utterly consumed.
13 Woe to you who build your houses through the grievous toil of others,
And all their building materials are the bricks and stones of sin;
I
tell you ye shall have no peace.
14 Woe to them who reject the measure and eternal heritage of their fathers
And whose souls follow after idols;
For they shall have no rest.
15 Woe to them who work unrighteousness and help oppression,
And slay
their neighbours until the day of the great judgement.
16 For He shall cast down your glory,
And bring affliction on your
hearts,
And shall arouse His fierce indignation
And destroy you all
with the sword;
And all the holy and righteous shall remember your sins.
2 For a man shall not withhold his hand from slaying his sons and his sons'
sons,
And the sinner shall not withhold his hand from his honoured
brother:
From dawn till sunset they shall slay one another.
3 And the horse shall walk up to the breast in the blood of sinners,
And the chariot shall be submerged to its height.
4 In those days the angels shall descend into the secret places
And
gather together into one place all those who brought down sin
And the Most
High will arise on that day of judgement
To execute great judgement
amongst sinners.
5 And over all the righteous and holy He will appoint guardians from
amongst the holy angels
To guard them as the apple of an eye,
Until He
makes an end of all wickedness and all sin,
And though the righteous sleep
a long sleep, they have nought to fear.
6 And (then) the children of the earth shall see the wise in security,
And shall understand all the words of this book,
And recognize that
their riches shall not be able to save them
In the overthrow of their
sins.
7 Woe to you, Sinners, on the day of strong anguish,
Ye who afflict the
righteous and burn them with fire:
Ye shall be requited according to your
works.
8 Woe to you, ye obstinate of heart,
Who watch in order to devise
wickedness:
Therefore shall fear come upon you
And there shall be none
to help you.
9 Woe to you, ye sinners, on account of the words of your mouth,
And on
account of the deeds of your hands which your godlessness as wrought,
In
blazing flames burning worse than fire shall ye burn.
10 And now, know ye that from the angels He will inquire as to your deeds in heaven, from the sun and from the moon and from the stars in reference to your sins because upon the earth ye execute 11 judgement on the righteous. And He will summon to testify against you every cloud and mist and dew and rain; for they shall all be withheld because of you from descending upon you, and they 12 shall be mindful of your sins. And now give presents to the rain that it be not withheld from descending upon you, nor yet the dew, when it has received gold and silver from you that it may descend. When the hoar-frost and snow with their chilliness, and all the snow-storms with all their plagues fall upon you, in those days ye shall not be able to stand before them.
2 And all the luminaries shall be affrighted with great fear,
And all
the earth shall be affrighted and tremble and be alarmed.
3 And all the angels shall execute their commandst
And shall seek to
hide themselves from the presence of the Great Glory,
And the children of
earth shall tremble and quake;
And ye sinners shall be cursed for ever,
And ye shall have no peace.
4 Fear ye not, ye souls of the righteous,
And be hopeful ye that have
died in righteousness.
5 And grieve not if your soul into Sheol has descended in grief,
And
that in your life your body fared not according to your goodness,
But wait
for the day of the judgement of sinners
And for the day of cursing and
chastisement.
6 And yet when ye die the sinners speak over you:
" As we die, so die
the righteous,
And what benefit do they reap for their deeds ?
7 Behold, even as we, so do they die in grief and darkness,
And what
have they more than we ?
From henceforth we are equal.
8 And what will they receive and what will they see for ever ?
Behold,
they too have died,
And henceforth for ever shall they see no light."
9 I tell you, ye sinners, ye are content to eat and drink, and rob and sin, and strip men naked, and 10 acquire wealth and see good days. Have ye seen the righteous how their end falls out, that no manner 11 of violence is found in them till their death ? " Nevertheless they perished and became as though they had not been, and their spirits descended into Sheol in tribulation."
3 That all goodness and joy and glory are prepared for them,
And
written down for the spirits of those who have died in righteousness,
And
that manifold good shall be given to you in recompense for your labours,
And that your lot is abundantly beyond the lot of the living.
4 And the spirits of you who have died in righteousness shall live and
rejoice,
And their spirits shall not perish, nor their memorial from
before the face of the Great One
Unto all the generations of the world:
wherefore no longer fear their contumely.
5 Woe to you, ye sinners, when ye have died,
If ye die in the wealth of
your sins,
And those who are like you say regarding you:
' Blessed are
the sinners: they have seen all their days.
6 And how they have died in prosperity and in wealth,
And have not seen
tribulation or murder in their life;
And they have died in honour,
And
judgement has not been executed on them during their life."
7 Know ye, that their souls will be made to descend into Sheol
And they
shall be wretched in their great tribulation.
8 And into darkness and chains and a burning flame where there is grievous
judgement shall your spirits enter;
And the great judgement shall be for
all the generations of the world.
Woe to you, for ye shall have no peace.
9 Say not in regard to the righteous and good who are in life:
" In our
troubled days we have toiled laboriously and experienced every trouble,
And met with much evil and been consumed,
And have become few and our
spirit small.
10 And we have been destroyed and have not found any to help us even with a
word:
We have been tortured [and destroyed], and not hoped to see life
from day to day.
11 We hoped to be the head and have become the tail:
We have toiled
laboriously and had no satisfaction in our toil;
And we have become the
food of the sinners and the unrighteous,
And they have laid their yoke
heavily upon us.
12 They have had dominion over us that hated us and smote us;
And to
those that hated us we have bowed our necks
But they pitied us not.
13 We desired to get away from them that we might escape and be at
rest,
But found no place whereunto we should flee and be safe from them.
14 And are complained to the rulers in our tribulation,
And cried out
against those who devoured us,
But they did not attend to our cries
And would not hearken to our voice.
15 And they helped those who robbed us and devoured us and those who made us few; and they concealed their oppression, and they did not remove from us the yoke of those that devoured us and dispersed us and murdered us, and they concealed their murder, and remembered not that they had lifted up their hands against us.