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.
5 And it shall guide you on good paths, and righteousness shall be your
companion.
6 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.
7 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.
8 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.
9 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.
10 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 shall be
cast into the judgement of fire, And shall perish in wrath and in grievous
judgement for ever.
11 And the righteous shall arise from their sleep, And wisdom shall arise and be
given unto them.
12 And after that the roots of unrighteousness shall be cut off, and the sinners
shall be destroyed by the sword and the blasphemers destroyed in every place,
and those who plan violence and those who commit blasphemy shall perish by the
sword.
13 And now I tell you, my sons, and show you the paths of righteousness and the
paths of violence.
14 Yea, I will show them to you again that ye may know what will come to pass.
15 And now, listen to 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 2 Wisdom of Enoch
1 The book written by Enoch - Enoch indeed wrote this complete doctrine of
wisdom, praised of all men and a judge of all the earth for all my children who
shall dwell on the earth. And for the future generations who shall observe
uprightness and peace.
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 with goodness and righteousness.
5 And he shall walk in eternal light.
6 And sin shall perish in darkness for ever and shall no more be seen from that
day for evermore."
7 And after that Enoch both gave and began to recount from the books.
8 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.
9 Yea, I Enoch will declare 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."
10 And Enoch began to recount from the books and said:
11 "I was born the seventh in the first week, while judgement and righteousness
still endured.
12 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.
13 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.
14 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.
15 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.
16 And after that in the fifth week, at its close, the house of glory and
dominion shall be built for ever.
17 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.
18 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.
19 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.
20 And at its close shall be elected, the elect righteous of the eternal plant
of righteousness to receive sevenfold instruction concerning all His creation.
21 For who is there of all the children of men that is able to hear the voice of
the Holy One without being troubled?
22 And who can think His thoughts?
23 And who is there that can behold all the works of heaven?
24 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 all their ends and think them or do like them?
25 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?
26 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?
27 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.
28 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.
29 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.
30 But seek and choose for yourselves righteousness and an elect life, and walk
in the paths of peace, and ye shall live and prosper.
31 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.
32 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.
33 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.
34 And those who acquire gold and silver in judgement suddenly shall perish.
35 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.
36 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.
37 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.
38 And your righteous ones in those days shall be a reproach to the sinners and
the godless.
39 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!
40 Who has permitted you to practice reproaches and wickedness?
41 And so judgement shall overtake you, sinners.
42 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.
43 Woe to you who fulminate anathemas which cannot be reversed: Healing shall
therefore be far from you because of your sins.
44 Woe to you who requite your neighbor with evil; For ye shall be requited
according to your works.
45 Woe to you, lying witnesses, and to those who weigh out injustice, for
suddenly shall ye perish.
46 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.
47 Be hopeful, ye righteous; for suddenly shall the sinners perish before you,
and ye shall have lordship over them according to your desires.
48 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.
49 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.
50 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 evil deeds.
51 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.
52 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.
53 Woe to you who work unrighteousness and deceit and blasphemy: It shall be a
memorial against you for evil.
54 Woe to you, ye mighty, who with might oppress the righteous; For the day of
your destruction is coming.
55 In those days many and good days shall come to the righteous-in the day of
your judgement."
Chapter 3 Wisdom of Enoch
1 Believe, ye righteous, that the sinners will become a shame nd perish in the
day of unrighteousness.
2 Be it known unto you 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. And now let us do what we purposed: For we have gathered silver
and many are the husbandmen in our houses. And our granaries are full as with
water."
9 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.
10 And now I swear unto you, to the wise and to the foolish for ye shall have
manifold experiences on the earth.
11 For ye men shall put on more adornments than a woman and colored garments
more than a virgin; In royalty and in grandeur and in power, and in silver and
in gold and in purple, and in splendor and in food they shall be poured out as
water.
12 Therefore they shall be wanting in doctrine and wisdom and they shall perish
thereby together with their possessions.
13 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.
14 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.
15 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.
16 And barrenness has not been given to the woman but on account of the deeds of
her own hands she dies without children.
17 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.
18 And do not think in your spirit nor say in your heart that ye do not know and
that ye do not see that every sin is every day recorded in heaven in the
presence of the Most High.
19 From henceforth ye know that all your oppression wherewith ye oppress is
written down every day till the day of your judgement.
20 Woe to you, ye fools, for through your folly shall ye perish: And ye
transgress against the wise, and so good hap shall not be your portion.
21 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.
22 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.
23 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 off your necks and slay you, and have no mercy
upon you.
24 Woe to you who rejoice in the tribulation of the righteous; For no grave
shall be dug for you.
25 Woe to you who set at nought the words of the righteous; For ye shall have no
hope of life.
26 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 neighbors.
27 Therefore they shall have no peace but die a sudden death.
28 Woe to you who work godlessness and glory in lying and extol them: Ye shall
perish, and no happy life shall be yours.
29 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.
30 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.
31 In those days the nations shall be stirred up and the families of the nations
shall arise on the day of destruction.
32 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 sucklings, and not return to them and
shall have no pity on their beloved ones.
33 And again I swear to you, ye sinners, that sin is prepared for a day of
unceasing bloodshed.
34 And they who worship stones, and grave images of gold and silver and wood 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.
35 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.
36 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.
37 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.
38 Woe to you who spread evil to your neighbors; For you shall be slain in Sheol.
39 Woe to you who make deceitful and false measures, and who cause bitterness on
the earth; For they shall thereby be utterly consumed.
40 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.
41 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.
42 Woe to them who work unrighteousness and help oppression, and slay their
neighbours until the day of the great judgement.
43 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.
44 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.
45 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 honored brother: From
dawn till sunset they shall slay one another.
46 And the horse shall walk up to the breast in the blood of sinners and the
chariot shall be submerged to its height.
47 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.
48 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.
49 And 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.
50 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.
51 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.
52 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.
53 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 judgement on the righteous.
54 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 shall be mindful of your sins.
55 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.
56 When the hoarfrost 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 4 Wisdom of Enoch
1 Observe the heaven, ye children of heaven, and every work of the Most High,
and fear ye Him and work no evil in His presence.
2 If He closes the windows of heaven, and withholds the rain and the dew from
descending on the earth on your account, what will ye do then?
3 And if He sends His anger upon you because of your deeds, ye cannot petition
Him; for ye spake proud and insolent words against His righteousness: therefore
ye shall have no peace.
4 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 in sore trouble?
5 And therefore do they fear because all their goodly possessions go into the
sea with them, and they have evil forebodings of heart that the sea will swallow
them and they will perish therein.
6 Are not the entire sea and all its waters, and all its movements, the work of
the Most High, and has He not set limits to its doings, and confined it
throughout by the sand?
7 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 on the earth fear Him not.
8 Has He not made the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein?
9 Who has given understanding and wisdom to everything that moves on the earth
and in the sea?
10 Do not the sailors of the ships fear the sea? Yet sinners fear not the Most
High.
11 In those days when He hath brought a grievous fire upon you, whither will ye
flee, and where will ye find deliverance?
12 And when He launches forth His Word against you will you not be affrighted
and fear? And all the luminaries shall be affrighted with great fear and all the
earth shall be affrighted and tremble and be alarmed.
13 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.
14 Fear ye not, ye souls of the righteous and be hopeful ye that have died in
righteousness.
15 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.
16 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? Behold, even as we, so
do they die in grief and darkness and what have they more than we? From
henceforth we are equal. 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."
17 I tell you, "Ye sinners, ye are content to eat and drink, and rob and sin,
and strip men naked, and acquire wealth and see good days. Have ye seen the
righteous how their end falls out, that no manner of violence is found in them
till their death?
18 Nevertheless they perished and became as though they had not been, and their
spirits descended into Sheol in tribulation."
Chapter 5 Wisdom of Enoch
1 Another book which Enoch wrote for his son Methuselah and for those who will
come after him, and keep the law in the last days.
2 Ye who have done good shall wait for those days till an end is made of those
who work evil; and an end of the might of the transgressors.
3 And wait ye indeed till sin has passed away, for their names shall be blotted
out of the book of life and out of the holy books, and their seed shall be
destroyed for ever, and their spirits shall be slain, and they shall cry and
make lamentation in a place that is a chaotic wilderness, and in the fire shall
they burn; for there is no earth there.
4 And I saw there something like an invisible cloud; for by reason of its depth
I could not look over, and I saw a flame of fire blazing brightly, and things
like shining mountains circling and sweeping to and fro.
5 And I asked one of the holy angels who was with me and said unto him: "What is
this shining thing? For it is not a heaven but only the flame of a blazing fire,
and the voice of weeping and crying and lamentation and strong pain."
6 And he said unto me: "This place which thou seest-here are cast the spirits of
sinners and blasphemers, and of those who work wickedness, and of those who
pervert everything that the Lord hath spoken through the mouth of the prophets -
the things that shall be.
7 For some of them are written and inscribed above in the heaven, in order that
the angels may read them and know that which shall befall the sinners, and the
spirits of the humble, and of those who have afflicted their bodies, and been
recompensed by God.
8 And of those who have been put to shame by wicked men: Who love God and loved
neither gold nor silver nor any of the good things which are in the world, but
gave over their bodies to torture.
9 Who, since they came into being, longed not after earthly food, but regarded
everything as a passing breath, and lived accordingly, and the Lord tried them
much, and their spirits were found pure so that they should bless His name.
10 And all the blessings destined for them I have recounted in the books.
11 And he hath assigned them their recompense, because they have been found to
be such as loved heaven more than their life in the world, and though they were
trodden under foot of wicked men and experienced abuse and reviling from them
and were put to shame, yet they blessed Me.
12 And now I will summon the spirits of the good who belong to the generation of
light, and I will transform those who were born in darkness, who in the flesh
were not recompensed with such honor as their faithfulness deserved.
13 And I will bring forth in shining light those who have loved My holy name,
and I will seat each on the throne of his honor.
14 And they shall be resplendent for times without number; for righteousness is
the judgement of God; for to the faithful He will give faithfulness in the
habitation of upright paths.
15 And they shall see those who were, born in darkness led into darkness, while
the righteous shall be resplendent.
16 And the sinners shall cry aloud and see them resplendent, and they indeed
will go where days and seasons are prescribed for them."
Chapter 6 Revelation of Enoch
1 I swear unto you that in heaven the angels remember you for good before the
glory of the Great One: and your names are written before the glory of the Great
One.
2 Be hopeful; for aforetime ye were put to shame through ill and affliction; but
now ye shall shine as the lights of heaven, ye shall shine and ye shalll be
seen, and the portals of heaven shall be opened to you.
3 And in your cry, cry for judgement, and it shall appear to you; for all your
tribulation shall be visited on the rulers, and on all who helped those who
plundered you.
4 Be hopeful, and cast not away your hopes for ye shall have great joy as the
angels of heaven.
5 What shall ye be obliged to do?
6 Ye shall not have to hide on the day of the great judgement and ye shall not
be found as sinners, and the eternal judgement shall be far from you for all the
generations of the world.
7 And now fear not, ye righteous, when ye see the sinners growing strong and
prospering in their ways, be not companions with them, but keep afar from their
violence; For ye shall become companions of the hosts of heaven.
8 And, although the sinners say: "All our sins shall not be searched out and be
written down," nevertheless they shall write down all your sins every day.
9 And now I show unto you that light and darkness, day and night, see all your
sins.
10 Be not godless in your hearts, and lie not and alter not the words of
uprightness, nor charge with lying the words of the Holy Great One, nor take
account of your idols; for all your lying and all your godlessness issue not in
righteousness but in great sin.
11 And now I know this mystery, that sinners will alter and pervert the words of
righteousness in many ways, and will speak wicked words, and lie, and practice
great deceits, and write books concerning their words.
12 But when they write down truthfully all my words in their languages, and do
not change or minish ought from my words but write them all down truthfully -
all that I first testified concerning them.
13 Then, I know another mystery, that books will be given to the righteous and
the wise to become a cause of joy and uprightness and much wisdom.
14 And to them shall the books be given, and they shall believe in them and
rejoice over them and then shall all the righteous who have learnt therefrom all
the paths of uprightness be recompensed.
15 In those days the Lord bade to summon and testify to the children of earth
concerning their wisdom: "Show unto them; for ye are their guides and a
recompense over the whole earth.
16 For I and My son will be united with them for ever in the paths of
uprightness in their lives; and ye shall have peace: rejoice, ye children of
uprightness. Amen."