THE BOOK OF ENOCH : CHAPTERS 91 - 102
[NOTE : Please note that this mixed numbering on chapters
91 through 93 is not a mistake on my part. In the original
text from which these files are made, it jumps from chapter
92, to chapter 91, and then to 93, another 91, (different from
the previous one, and then on to chapter 94 --- WordWeaver]
[Chapter 91]
1 And now, my son Methuselah, call to me all thy brothers
And gather together to me all the sons of thy mother; For
the word calls me, And the spirit is poured out upon me,
That I may show you everything That shall befall you for
ever.'
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. [And after that
the roots of unrighteousness shall be cut off, and the
sinners shall be destroyed by the sword . . . shall be cut
off from the blasphemers in every place, and those who plan
violence and those who commit blasphemy shall perish by the
sword.]
18 And now I tell you, my sons, and show you The paths of
righteousness and the paths of violence. Yea, I will show
them to you again That ye may know what will come to pass.
19 And now, hearken unto me, my sons, And walk in the paths
of righteousness, And walk not in the paths of violence; For
all who walk in the paths of unrighteousness shall perish
for ever.'
[Chapter 93]
1,2 And after that Enoch both gave and began to recount from
the books. And Enoch said: ' 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 ?]
[Chapter 91]
12 And after that there shall be another, the eighth week,
that of righteousness, And a sword shall be given to it that
a righteous judgement may be executed on the oppressors, And
sinners shall be delivered into the hands of the righteous.
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.
[Chapter 94]
1 And now I say unto you, my sons, love righteousness and
walk therein; For the paths of righteousness are worthy of
acceptation, But the paths of unrighteousness shall suddenly
be destroyed and vanish.
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.
[Chapter 95]
1 Oh that mine eyes were [a cloud of] waters ] That I might
weep over you, And pour down my tears as a cloud of waters:
That so I might rest from my trouble of heart!
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.
[Chapter 96]
1 Be hopeful, ye righteous; for suddenly shall the sinners
perish before you, And ye shall have lordship over them
according to your desires.
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.
[Chapter 97]
1 Believe, ye righteous, that the sinners will become a
shame And perish in the day of unrighteousness.
2 Be it known unto you (ye sinners) that the Most High is
mindful of your destruction, And the angels of heaven
rejoice over your destruction.
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.
[Chapter 98]
1 And now I swear unto you, to the wise and to the foolish,
For ye shall have manifold experiences on the earth.
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.
[Chapter 99]
1 Woe to you who work godlessness, And glory in lying and
extol them: Ye shall perish, and no happy life shall be
yours.
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.
[Chapter 100]
1 And in those days in one place the fathers together with
their sons shall be smitten And brothers one with another
shall fall in death Till the streams flow with their blood.
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.
[Chapter 101]
1 Observe the heaven, ye children of heaven, and every work
of the Most High, and fear ye Him
2 and work no evil in His presence. If He closes the windows
of heaven, and withholds the rain and
3 the dew from descending on the earth on your account, what
will ye do then? And if He sends His anger upon you because
of your deeds, ye cannot petition Him; for ye spake proud
and insolent
4 words against His righteousness: therefore ye shall have
no peace. And see ye not the sailors of the ships, how their
ships are tossed to and fro by the waves, and are shaken by
the winds, and are
5 in sore trouble ? And therefore do they fear because all
their goodly possessions go upon the sea with them, and they
have evil forebodings of heart that the sea will swallow
them and they will
6 perish therein. Are not the entire sea and all its waters,
and all its movements, the work of the Most
7 High, and has He not set limits to its doings, and
confined it throughout by the sand ? And at His reproof it
is afraid and dries up, and all its fish die and all that is
in it; But ye sinners that are
8 on the earth fear Him not. Has He not made the heaven and
the earth, and all that is therein ? Who has given
understanding and wisdom to everything that moves on the
earth and in the sea.
9 Do not the sailors of the ships fear the sea ? Yet sinners
fear not the Most High.
[Chapter 102]
1 In those days when He hath brought a grievous fire upon
you, Whither will ye flee, and where will ye find
deliverance ? And when He launches forth His Word against
you Will you not be affrighted and fear ?
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."
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