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The Coming Judgement of the Wicked
38. 1. The first Parable.
When the congregation of the righteous shall appear,
And sinners shall be judged for their sins,
And shall be driven from the face of the earth,
2. And when the Righteous One shall appear before the eyes of the
righteous,
Whose elect works hang upon the Lord of Spirits,
And light shall appear to the righteous and the elect who dwell on the
earth,
Where then will be the dwelling of the sinners,
And where the resting-place of those who have denied the Lord of
Spirits?
It had been good for them if they had not been born.
3. When the secrets of the righteous shall be revealed and the sinners
judged,
And the godless driven from the presence of the righteous and elect,
4. From that time those that possess the earth shall no longer be powerful
and exalted:
And they shall not be able to behold the face of the holy,
For the Lord of Spirits has caused His light to appear
On the face of the holy, righteous, and elect.
5. Then shall the kings and the mighty perish
And be given into the hands of the righteous and holy.
6. And thenceforward none shall seek for themselves mercy from the Lord
of Spirits:
For their life is at an end.
39 The Abode of the Righteous and of the Elect One; the Praises of the
Blessed
39. [1. And it †shall come to pass in those days that elect and holy children
†will descend from the high heaven, and their seed †will become one with
the children of men. 2. And in those days Enoch received books of zeal
and wrath, and books of disquiet and expulsion.]
And mercy shall not be accorded to them, saith the Lord of Spirits.
3. And in those days a whirlwind carried me off from the earth,
And set me down at the end of the heavens.
4. And there I saw another vision, the dwelling-places of the holy,
And the resting-places of the righteous.
5. Here mine eyes saw their dwellings with His righteous angels,
And their resting-places with the holy.
And they petitioned and interceded and prayed for the children of men,
And righteousness flowed before them as water,
And mercy like dew upon the earth:
Thus it is amongst them for ever and ever.
6a. And in that place mine eyes saw the Elect One of righteousness and of
faith,
7a. And I saw his dwelling-place under the wings of the Lord of Spirits.
6b. And righteousness shall prevail in his days,
And the righteous and elect shall be without number before Him for
ever and ever.
7b. And all the righteous and elect before Him shall be †strong† as fiery
lights,
And their mouth shall be full of blessing,
And their lips shall extol the name of the Lord of Spirits,
And righteousness before Him shall never fail,
[And uprightness shall never fail before Him].
8. There I wished to dwell,
And my spirit longed for that dwelling-place:
And there heretofore hath been my portion,
For so hath it been established concerning me before the Lord of Spirits.
9. In those days I praised and extolled the name of the Lord of Spirits with
blessings and praises, because He hath destined me for blessing and glory
according to the good pleasure of the Lord of Spirits. 10. For a long time
my eyes regarded that place, and I blessed Him and praised Him, saying:
‘Blessed is He, and may He be blessed from the beginning and for
evermore. 11. And before Him there is no ceasing. He knows before the
world was created what is for ever and what will be from generation unto
generation. 12. Those who sleep not bless Thee: they stand before Thy
glory and bless, praise, and extol, saying: “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of
Spirits: He filleth the earth with spirits.”’ 13. And here my eyes saw all
those who sleep not: they stand before Him and bless and say: ‘Blessed be
Thou, and blessed be the name of the Lord for ever and ever.’ 14. And my
face was changed; for I could no longer behold.
39—41.2 The Four Archangels
40. 1. And after that I saw thousands of thousands and ten thousand times
ten thousand, I saw a multitude beyond number and reckoning, who stood
before the Lord of Spirits. 2. And on the four sides of the Lord of Spirits I
saw four presences, different from those that sleep not, and I learnt their
names: for the angel who went with me made known to me their names, and
showed me all the hidden things.
3. And I heard the voices of those four presences as they uttered praises
before the Lord of glory. 4. The first voice blesses the Lord of Spirits for
ever and ever. 5. And the second voice I heard blessing the Elect One and
the elect ones who hang upon the Lord of Spirits. 6. And the third voice I
heard pray and intercede for those who dwell on the earth and supplicate
in the name of the Lord of Spirits. 7. And I heard the fourth voice fending
off the Satans and forbidding them to come before the Lord of Spirits to
accuse them who dwell on the earth. 8. After that I asked the angel of
peace who went with me, who showed me everything that is hidden: ‘Who
are these four presences which I have seen and whose words I have heard
and written down?’ 9. And he said to me: ‘This first is Michael, the
merciful and long-suffering: and the second, who is set over all the diseases
and all the wounds of the children of men, is Raphael: and the third, who is
set over all the powers, is Gabriel: and the fourth, who is set over the
repentance unto hope of those who inherit eternal life, is named
Phanuel.’ 10. And these are the four angels of the Lord of Spirits and the
four voices I heard in those days.
41. 1. And after that I saw all the secrets of the heavens, and how the
kingdom is divided, and how the actions of men are weighed in the
balance. 2. And there I saw the mansions of the elect and the mansions of
the holy, and mine eyes saw there all the sinners being driven from thence
which deny the name of the Lord of Spirits, and being dragged off: and they
could not abide because of the punishment which proceeds from the Lord of
Spirits.
41.3–9 Astronomical Secrets
3. And there mine eyes saw the secrets of the lightning and of the thunder,
and the secrets of the winds, how they are divided to blow over the earth,
and the secrets of the clouds and dew, and there I saw from whence they
proceed in that place and from whence they saturate the dusty earth. 4.
And there I saw closed chambers out of which the winds are divided, the
chamber of the hail and winds, the chamber of the mist, and of the clouds,
and the cloud thereof hovers over the earth from the beginning of the
world. 5. And I saw the chambers of the sun and moon, whence they
proceed and whither they come again, and their glorious return, and how
one is superior to the other, and their stately orbit, and how they do not
leave their orbit, and they add nothing to their orbit and they take nothing
from it, and they keep faith with each other, in accordance with the oath by
which they are bound together. 6. And first the sun goes forth and
traverses his path according to the commandment of the Lord of Spirits, and
mighty is His name for ever and ever. 7. And after that I saw the hidden
and the visible path of the moon, and she accomplishes the course of her
path in that place by day and by night – the one holding a position opposite
to the other before the Lord of Spirits.
And they give thanks and praise and rest not;
For unto them is their thanksgiving rest.
8. For the sun changes oft for a blessing or a curse,
And the course of the path of the moon is light to the righteous,
And darkness to the sinners in the name of the Lord,
Who made a separation between the light and the darkness,
And divided the spirits of men,
And strengthened the spirits of the righteous,
In the name of His righteousness.
9. For no angel hinders and no power is able to hinder; for He appoints a
judge for them all and he judges them all before Him.
42 The Dwelling-places of Wisdom and of Unrighteousness
42. 1. Wisdom found no place where she might dwell;
Then a dwelling-place was assigned her in the heavens.
2. Wisdom went forth to make her dwelling among the children of men,
And found no dwelling-place:
Wisdom returned to her place
And took her seat among the angels.
3. And unrighteousness went forth from her chambers:
Whom she sought not she found,
And dwelt with them,
As rain in a desert,
And dew on a thirsty land.
43—44 Astronomical Secrets
43. 1. And I saw other lightnings and the stars of heaven, and I saw how
He called them all by their names and they hearkened unto Him. 2. And I
saw how they are weighed in a righteous balance according to their
proportions of light: (I saw) the width of their spaces and the day of their
appearing, and how their revolution produces lightning: and (I saw) their
revolution according to the number of the angels, and (how) they keep faith
with each other. 3. And I asked the angel who went with me who showed
me what was hidden: ‘What are these?’ 4. And he said to me: ‘The Lord of
Spirits hath showed thee their parabolic meaning (lit. ‘their parable’): these
are the names of the holy who dwell on the earth and believe in the name of
the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.’
44. Also another phenomenon I saw in regard to the lightnings: how some
of the stars arise and become lightnings and cannot part with their new
form.
45—57 The Second Parable
45 The Lot of the Apostates; the New Heaven and the New Earth
45. 1. And this is the Second Parable concerning those who deny the name
of the dwelling of the holy ones and the Lord of Spirits.
2. And into the heaven they shall not ascend,
And on the earth they shall not come:
Such shall be the lot of the sinners
Who have denied the name of the Lord of Spirits,
Who are thus preserved for the day of suffering and tribulation.
3. On that day Mine Elect One shall sit on the throne of glory
And shall try their works,
And their places of rest shall be innumerable.
And their souls shall grow strong within them when they see Mine elect
ones,
And those who have called upon My glorious name:
4. Then will I cause Mine Elect One to dwell among them.
And I will transform the heaven and make it an eternal blessing and
light,
5. And I will transform the earth and make it a blessing:
And I will cause Mine elect ones to dwell upon it:
But the sinners and evil-doers shall not set foot thereon.
6. For I have provided and satisfied with peace My righteous ones,
And have caused them to dwell before Me:
But for the sinners there is judgement impending with Me,
So that I shall destroy them from the face of the earth.
46 The Head of Days and the Son of Man
46. 1. And there I saw One, who had a head of days,
And His head was white like wool,
And with Him was another being whose countenance had the
appearance of a man,
And his face was full of graciousness, like one of the holy angels.
2. And I asked the angel who went with me and showed me all the hidden
things, concerning that Son of Man, who he was, and whence he was, (and)
why he went with the Head of Days? 3. And he answered and said unto
me:
This is the Son of Man who hath righteousness,
With whom dwelleth righteousness,
And who revealeth all the treasures of that which is hidden,
Because the Lord of Spirits hath chosen him,
And whose lot hath the pre-eminence before the Lord of Spirits in
uprightness for ever.
4. And this Son of Man whom thou hast seen
Shall †raise up† the kings and the mighty from their seats,
[And the strong from their thrones]
And shall loosen the reins of the strong,
And break the teeth of the sinners;
5. [And he shall put down the kings from their thrones and kingdoms]
Because they do not extol and praise Him,
Nor humbly acknowledge whence the kingdom was bestowed upon
them.
6. And he shall put down the countenance of the strong,
And shall fill them with shame.
And darkness shall be their dwelling,
And worms shall be their bed,
And they shall have no hope of rising from their beds,
Because they do not extol the name of the Lord of Spirits.
7. And these are they who †judge† the stars of heaven,
[And raise their hands against the Most High],
†And tread upon the earth and dwell upon it†.
And all their deeds manifest unrighteousness,
And their power rests upon their riches,
And their faith is in the †gods† which they have made with their hands,
And they deny the name of the Lord of Spirits,
8. And they persecute the houses of His congregations,
And the faithful who hang upon the name of the Lord of Spirits.
47 The Prayer of the Righteous for Vengeance and their Joy at its
coming
47. 1. And in those days shall have ascended the prayer of the righteous.
And the blood of the righteous from the earth before the Lord of Spirits.
2. In those days the holy ones who dwell above in the heavens
Shall unite with one voice
And supplicate and pray [and praise,
And give thanks and bless the name of the Lord of Spirits]
On behalf of the blood of the righteous which has been shed,
And that the prayer of the righteous may not be in vain before the Lord
of Spirits,
That judgement may be done unto them,
And that they may not have to suffer for ever.
3. In those days I saw the Head of Days when He seated himself upon the
throne of His glory,
And the books of the living were opened before Him:
And all His host which is in heaven above and His counsellors stood
before Him,
4. And the hearts of the holy were filled with joy;
Because the number of the righteous had been offered,
And the prayer of the righteous had been heard,
And the blood of the righteous been required before the Lord of Spirits.
48 The Fount of Righteousness; the Son of Man – the Stay of the
Righteous; Judgement of the Kings and the Mighty
48. 1. And in that place I saw the fountain of righteousness,
Which was inexhaustible:
And around it were many fountains of wisdom;
And all the thirsty drank of them,
And were filled with wisdom,
And their dwellings were with the righteous and holy and elect.
2. And at that hour that Son of Man was named
In the presence of the Lord of Spirits,
And his name before the Head of Days.
3. Yea, before the sun and the signs were created,
Before the stars of the heaven were made,
His name was named before the Lord of Spirits.
4. He shall be a staff to the righteous whereon to stay themselves and not
fall,
And he shall be the light of the Gentiles,
And the hope of those who are troubled of heart.
5. All who dwell on earth shall fall down and worship before him,
And will praise and bless and celebrate with song the Lord of Spirits.
6. And for this reason hath he been chosen and hidden before Him,
Before the creation of the world and for evermore.
7. And the wisdom of the Lord of Spirits hath revealed him to the holy and
righteous;
For he hath preserved the lot of the righteous;
Because they have hated and despised this world of unrighteousness,
And have hated all its works and ways in the name of the Lord of
Spirits:
For in his name they are saved,
And according to his good pleasure hath it been in regard to their life.
8. In those days downcast in countenance shall the kings of the earth have
become,
And the strong who possess the land because of the works of their
hands;
For on the day of their anguish and affliction they shall not (be able to)
save themselves,
9. And I will give them over into the hands of Mine elect:
As straw in the fire so shall they burn before the face of the holy:
As lead in the water shall they sink before the face of the righteous,
And no trace of them shall any more be found.
10. And on the day of their affliction there shall be rest on the earth,
And before them they shall fall and not rise again:
And there shall be no one to take them with his hands and raise them:
For they have denied the Lord of Spirits and His Anointed.
The name of the Lord of Spirits be blessed.
49 The Power and Wisdom of the Elect One
49. 1. For wisdom is poured out like water,
And glory faileth not before him for evermore.
2. For he is mighty in all the secrets of righteousness,
And unrighteousness shall disappear as a shadow,
And have no continuance;
Because the Elect One standeth before the Lord of Spirits,
And his glory is for ever and ever,
And his might unto all generations.
3. And in him dwells the spirit of wisdom,
And the spirit which gives insight,
And the spirit of understanding and of might.
And the spirit of those who have fallen asleep in righteousness.
4. And he shall judge the secret things,
And none shall be able to utter a lying word before him;
For he is the Elect One before the Lord of Spirits according to His good
pleasure.
50 The Glorification and Victory of the Righteous; the Repentance of
the Gentiles
50. 1. And in those days a change shall take place for the holy and elect,
And the light of days shall abide upon them,
And glory and honour shall turn to the holy,
2. On the day of affliction on which evil shall have been treasured up
against the sinners.
And the righteous shall be victorious in the name of the Lord of Spirits:
And He will cause the others to witness (this),
That they may repent
And forgo the works of their hands.
3. They shall have no honour through the name of the Lord of Spirits,
Yet through His name shall they be saved,
And the Lord of Spirits will have compassion on them,
For His compassion is great.
4. And He is righteous also in His judgement,
And in the presence of His glory unrighteousness also shall not maintain
itself:
At His judgement the unrepentant shall perish before Him.
5. And from henceforth I will have no mercy on them, saith the Lord of
Spirits.
51 The Resurrection of the Dead, and the Separation by the Judge of
the Righteous and the Wicked
51. 1. And in those days shall the earth also give back that which has been
entrusted to it,
And Sheol also shall give back that which it has received,
And hell shall give back that which it owes.
5a. For in those days the Elect One shall arise,
2. And he shall choose the righteous and holy from among them:
For the day has drawn nigh that they should be saved.
3. And the Elect One shall in those days sit on My throne,
And his mouth shall pour forth all the secrets of wisdom and counsel:
For the Lord of Spirits hath given (them) to him and hath glorified him.
4. And in those days shall the mountains leap like rams,
And the hills also shall skip like lambs satisfied with milk,
And the faces of [all] the angels in heaven shall be lighted up with joy.
5b. And the earth shall rejoice,
c. And the righteous shall dwell upon it,
d. And the elect shall walk thereon.
52 The Seven1
Metal Mountains and the Elect One
52. 1. And after those days in that place where I had seen all the visions of
that which is hidden – for I had been carried off in a whirlwind and they had
borne me towards the west – 2. There mine eyes saw all the secret things
of heaven that shall be, a mountain of iron, and a mountain of copper, and a
mountain of silver, and a mountain of gold, and a mountain of soft metal,
and a mountain of lead.
3. And I asked the angel who went with me, saying, ‘What things are these
which I have seen in secret?’ 4. And he said unto me: ‘All these things
which thou hast seen shall serve the dominion of His Anointed that he may
be potent and mighty on the earth.’
5. And that angel of peace answered, saying unto me: ‘Wait a little and
there shall be revealed unto thee all the secret things, which surround the
Lord of Spirits.
6. And these mountains which thine eyes have seen, The mountain of iron,
and the mountain of copper, and the mountain of silver,
And the mountain of gold, and the mountain of soft metal, and the
mountain of lead,
All these shall be in the presence of the Elect One,
As wax before the fire,
And like the water which streams down from above [upon those
mountains],
And they shall become powerless before his feet.
7. And it shall come to pass in those days that none shall be saved,
Either by gold or by silver,
And none be able to escape.
8. And there shall be no iron for war,
Nor shall one clothe oneself with a breastplate.
Bronze shall be of no service,
And tin [shall be of no service and] shall not be esteemed,
And lead shall not be desired.
9. And all these things shall be [denied and] destroyed from the surface of
the earth,
When the Elect One shall appear before the face of the Lord of Spirits.’
53—54.6 The Valley of Judgement; the Angels of Punishment; the
Communities of the Elect One
53. 1. There mine eyes saw a deep valley with open mouths, and all who
dwell on the earth and sea and islands shall bring to him gifts and presents
and tokens of homage, but that deep valley shall not become full.
2. And their hands commit lawless deeds,
And the sinners devour all whom they lawlessly oppress:
Yet the sinners shall be destroyed before the face of the Lord of Spirits,
And they shall be banished from off the face of His earth,
And they shall perish for ever and ever.
3. For I saw all the angels of punishment abiding (there) and preparing all
the instruments of Satan. 4. And I asked the angel of peace who went with
me: ‘For whom are they preparing these instruments?’ 5. And he said unto
me: ‘They prepare these for the kings and the mighty of this earth, that they
may thereby be destroyed.
6. And after this the Righteous and Elect One shall cause the house of his
congregation to appear: henceforth they shall be no more hindered in the
name of the Lord of Spirits.
7. And these mountains shall not stand as the earth before his
righteousness,
But the hills shall be as a fountain of water,
And the righteous shall have rest from the oppression of sinners.’
54. 1. And I looked and turned to another part of the earth, and saw there a
deep valley with burning fire. 2. And they brought the kings and the
mighty, and began to cast them into this deep valley. 3. And there mine
eyes saw how they made these their instruments, iron chains of
immeasurable weight. 4. And I asked the angel of peace who went with
me, saying: ‘For whom are these chains being prepared?’ 5. And he said
unto me: ‘These are being prepared for the hosts of Azâzêl, so that they
may take them and cast them into the abyss of complete condemnation, and
they shall cover their jaws with rough stones as the Lord of Spirits
commanded.
6. And Michael, and Gabriel, and Raphael, and Phanuel shall take hold of
them on that great day, and cast them on that day into the burning furnace,
that the Lord of Spirits may take vengeance on them for their
unrighteousness in becoming subject to Satan and leading astray those who
dwell on the earth.’
54.7—55.2 Noachic Fragment on the first World Judgement
7. ‘And in those days shall punishment come from the Lord of Spirits, and
He will open all the chambers of waters which are above the heavens, and
of the fountains which are beneath the earth. 8. And all the waters shall be
joined with the waters: that which is above the heavens is the masculine,
and the water which is beneath the earth is the feminine. 9. And they shall
destroy all who dwell on the earth and those who dwell under the ends of
the heaven. 10. And when they have recognized their unrighteousness
which they have wrought on the earth, then by these shall they perish.’
55. 1. And after that the Head of Days repented and said: ‘In vain have I
destroyed all who dwell on the earth.’ 2. And He sware by His great name:
‘Henceforth I will not do so to all who dwell on the earth, and I will set a
sign in the heaven: and this shall be a pledge of good faith between Me and
them for ever, so long as heaven is above the earth. And this is in
accordance with My command.’
55.3—56.4 Final Judgement of Azâzêl, the Watchers and their children
3. ‘When I have desired to take hold of them by the hand of the angels on
the day of tribulation and pain because of this, I will cause My
chastisement and My wrath to abide upon them, saith God, the Lord of
Spirits. 4. Ye †mighty kings† who dwell on the earth, ye shall have to
behold Mine Elect One, how he sits on the throne of glory and judges
Azâzêl, and all his associates, and all his hosts in the name of the Lord of
Spirits.’
56. 1. And I saw there the hosts of the angels of punishment going, and
they held scourges and chains of iron and bronze. 2. And I asked the angel
of peace who went with me, saying: ‘To whom are these who hold the
scourges going?’ 3. And he said unto me: ‘To their elect and beloved ones
that they may be cast into the chasm of the abyss of the valley.
4. And then that valley shall be filled with their elect and beloved,
And the days of their lives shall be at an end,
And the days of their leading astray shall not thenceforward be
reckoned.
56.5–8 Last struggle of heathen Powers against Israel
5. And in those days the angels shall return
And hurl themselves to the east upon the Parthians and Medes:
They shall stir up the kings, so that a spirit of unrest shall come upon
them,
And they shall rouse them from their thrones,
That they may break forth as lions from their lairs,
And as hungry wolves among their flocks.
6. And they shall go up and tread under foot the land of His elect ones,
[And the land of His elect ones shall be before them a threshing-floor
and a highway]:
7. But the city of my righteous shall be a hindrance to their horses.
And they shall begin to fight among themselves,
And their right hand shall be strong against themselves,
And a man shall not know his brother,
Nor a son his father or his mother,
Till there be no number of the corpses through their slaughter,
And their punishment be not in vain.
8. In those days Sheol shall open its jaws,
And they shall be swallowed up therein,
And their destruction shall be at an end;
Sheol shall devour the sinners in the presence of the elect.’
57 The Return from the Dispersion
57. 1. And it came to pass after this that I saw another host of wagons, and
men riding thereon, and coming on the winds from the east, and from the
west to the south. 2. And the noise of their wagons was heard, and when
this turmoil took place the holy ones from heaven remarked it, and the
pillars of the earth were moved from their place, and the sound thereof was
heard from the one end of heaven to the other, in one day. 3. And they
shall all fall down and worship the Lord of Spirits. And this is the end of the
second Parable.
58—71 The Third Parable
58 The Blessedness of the Saints
58. 1. And I began to speak the third Parable concerning the righteous and
elect.
2. Blessed are ye, ye righteous and elect,
For glorious shall be your lot.
3. And the righteous shall be in the light of the sun,
And the elect in the light of eternal life:
The days of their life shall be unending,
And the days of the holy without number.
4. And they shall seek the light and find righteousness with the Lord of
Spirits:
There shall be peace to the righteous in the name of the Eternal Lord.
5. And after this it shall be said to the holy in heaven
That they should seek out the secrets of righteousness, the heritage of
faith:
For it has become bright as the sun upon earth,
And the darkness is past.
6. And there shall be a light that never endeth,
And to a limit (lit. ‘number’) of days they shall not come,
For the darkness shall first have been destroyed,
[And the light established before the Lord of Spirits]
And the light of uprightness established for ever before the Lord of
Spirits.
59 The Lights and the Thunder
[59. 1. In those days mine eyes saw the secrets of the lightnings, and of the
lights, and the judgements they execute (lit. ‘their judgement’): and they
lighten for a blessing or a curse as the Lord of Spirits willeth. 2. And there
I saw the secrets of the thunder, and how when it resounds above in the
heaven, the sound thereof is heard, and he caused me to see the judgements
executed on the earth, whether they be for wellbeing and blessing, or for a
curse, according to the word of the Lord of Spirits. 3. And after that all the
secrets of the lights and lightnings were shown to me, and they lighten for
blessing and for satisfying.]
60 Book of Noah – a Fragment
60 Quaking of the Heaven; Behemoth and Leviathan; the Elements
60. 1. In the year five hundred, in the seventh month, on the fourteenth day
of the month in the life of †Enoch†. In that Parable I saw how a mighty
quaking made the heaven of heavens to quake, and the host of the Most
High, and the angels, a thousand thousands and ten thousand times ten
thousand, were disquieted with a great disquiet. 2. And the Head of Days
sat on the throne of His glory, and the angels and the righteous stood around
Him.
3. And a great trembling seized me,
And fear took hold of me,
And my loins gave way,
And dissolved were my reins,
And I fell upon my face.
4. And Michael sent another angel from among the holy ones and he
raised me up, and when he had raised me up my spirit returned; for I had
not been able to endure the look of this host, and the commotion and the
quaking of the heaven. 5. And Michael said unto me: ‘Why art thou
disquieted with such a vision? Until this day lasted the day of His mercy;
and He hath been merciful and long-suffering towards those who dwell on
the earth. 6. And when the day, and the power, and the punishment, and
the judgement come, which the Lord of Spirits hath prepared for those who
worship not the righteous law, and for those who deny the righteous
judgement, and for those who take His name in vain – that day is prepared;
for the elect a covenant, but for sinners an inquisition.
25. When the punishment of the Lord of Spirits shall rest upon them, it
shall rest in order that the punishment of the Lord of Spirits may not come
in vain, and it shall slay the children with their mothers and the children
with their fathers. Afterwards the judgement shall take place according to
His mercy and His patience.’
7. And on that day were two monsters parted, a female monster named
Leviathan, to dwell in the abysses of the ocean over the fountains of the
waters. 8. But the male is named Behemoth, who occupied with his breast
a waste wilderness named †Dûidâin†, on the east of the garden where the
elect and righteous dwell, where my grandfather was taken up, the seventh
from Adam, the first man whom the Lord of Spirits created. 9. And I
besought the other angel that he should show me the might of those
monsters, how they were parted on one day and cast, the one into the
abysses of the sea, and the other unto the dry land of the wilderness. 10.
And he said to me: ‘Thou son of man, herein thou dost seek to know what is
hidden.’
11. And the other angel who went with me and showed me what was
hidden told me, what is first and last in the heaven in the height, and
beneath the earth in the depth, and at the ends of the heaven, and on the
foundation of the heaven. 12. And the chambers of the winds, and how the
winds are divided, and how they are weighed, and (how) the portals of the
winds are reckoned, each according to the power of the wind, and the power
of the lights of the moon, and according to the power that is fitting: and the
divisions of the stars according to their names, and how all the divisions are
divided. 13. And the thunders according to the places where they fall, and
all the divisions that are made among the lightnings that it may lighten, and
their host that they may at once obey. 14. For the thunder has †places of
rest† (which) are assigned (to it) while it is waiting for its peal; and the
thunder and lightning are inseparable, and although not one and undivided,
they both go together through the spirit and separate not. 15. For when the
lightning lightens, the thunder utters its voice, and the spirit enforces a
pause during the peal, and divides equally between them; for the treasury of
their peals is like the sand, and each one of them as it peals is held in with a
bridle, and turned back by the power of the spirit, and pushed forward
according to the many quarters of the earth. 16. And the spirit of the sea is
masculine and strong, and according to the might of his strength he draws it
back with a rein, and in like manner it is driven forward and disperses amid
all the mountains of the earth. 17. And the spirit of the hoar-frost is his
own angel, and the spirit of the hail is a good angel. 18. And the spirit of
the snow has forsaken (his chamber) on account of his strength – there is a
special spirit therein, and that which ascends from it is like smoke, and its
name is frost. 19. And the spirit of the mist is not united with them in their
chambers, but it has a special chamber; for its course is †glorious† both in
light and in darkness, and in winter and in summer, and in its chamber is an
angel. 20. And the spirit of the dew has its dwelling at the ends of the
heaven, and is connected with the chambers of the rain, and its course is in
winter and summer: and its clouds and the clouds of the mist are connected,
and the one gives to the other. 21. And when the spirit of the rain goes
forth from its chamber, the angels come and open the chamber and lead it
out, and when it is diffused over the whole earth it unites with the water on
the earth. And whensoever it unites with the water on the earth …. 22. For
the waters are for those who dwell on the earth; for they are nourishment
for the earth from the Most High who is in heaven: therefore there is a
measure for the rain, and the angels take it in charge. 23. And these things
I saw towards the Garden of the Righteous. 24. And the angel of peace
who was with me said to me: ‘These two monsters, prepared, conformably
to the greatness of God, shall feed….
61 Angels go off to measure Paradise; the Judgement of the Righteous
by the Elect One; the Praise of the Elect One and of God
61. 1. And I saw in those days how long cords were given to those angels,
and they took to themselves wings and flew, and they went towards the
north.
2. And I asked the angel, saying unto him: ‘Why have those (angels) taken
these cords and gone off?’ And he said unto me: ‘They have gone to
measure.’
3. And the angel who went with me said unto me:
‘These shall bring the measures of the righteous,
And the ropes of the righteous to the righteous,
That they may stay themselves on the name of the Lord of Spirits for
ever and ever.
4. The elect shall begin to dwell with the elect,
And those are the measures which shall be given to faith
And which shall strengthen righteousness.
5. And these measures shall reveal all the secrets of the depths of the earth,
And those who have been destroyed by the desert,
And those who have been devoured by the beasts,
And those who have been devoured by the fish of the sea,
That they may return and stay themselves
On the day of the Elect One;
For none shall be destroyed before the Lord of Spirits,
And none can be destroyed.
6. And all who dwell above in the heaven received a command and power
and one voice and one light like unto fire.
7. And that One (with) their first words they blessed,
And extolled and lauded with wisdom,
And they were wise in utterance and in the spirit of life.
8. And the Lord of Spirits placed the Elect One on the throne of glory.
And he shall judge all the works of the holy above in the heaven,
And in the balance shall their deeds be weighed.
9. And when he shall lift up his countenance
To judge their secret ways according to the word of the name of the
Lord of Spirits,
And their path according to the way of the righteous judgement of the
Lord of Spirits,
Then shall they all with one voice speak and bless,
And glorify and extol and sanctify the name of the Lord of Spirits.
10. And He will summon all the host of the heavens, and all the holy ones
above, and the host of God, the Cherubin, Seraphin, and Ophannin, and all
the angels of power, and all the angels of principalities, and the Elect One,
and the other powers on the earth (and) over the water. 11. On that day
shall they raise one voice, and bless and glorify and exalt in the spirit of
faith, and in the spirit of wisdom, and in the spirit of patience, and in the
spirit of mercy, and in the spirit of judgement and of peace, and in the spirit
of goodness, and shall all say with one voice: “Blessed is He, and may the
name of the Lord of Spirits be blessed for ever and ever.”
12. All who sleep not above in heaven shall bless Him:
All the holy ones who are in heaven shall bless him,
And all the elect who dwell in the garden of life:
And every spirit of light who is able to bless, and glorify, and extol, and
hallow Thy blessed name,
And all flesh shall beyond measure glorify and bless Thy name for ever
and ever.
13. For great is the mercy of the Lord of Spirits, and He is longsuffering,
And all His works and all that He has created
He has revealed to the righteous and elect,
In the name of the Lord of Spirits.’
62 Judgement of the Kings and the Mighty; Blessedness of the
Righteous
62. 1. And thus the Lord commanded the kings and the mighty and the
exalted, and those who dwell on the earth, and said: ‘Open your eyes and
lift up your horns if ye are able to recognize the Elect One.’
2. And the Lord of Spirits seated him on the throne of His glory,
And the spirit of righteousness was poured out upon him,
And the word of his mouth slays all the sinners,
And all the unrighteous are destroyed from before his face.
3. And there shall stand up in that day all the kings and the mighty,
And the exalted and those who hold the earth,
And they shall see and recognize
How he sits on the throne of his glory,
And righteousness is judged before him,
And no lying word is spoken before him.
4. Then shall pain come upon them as on a woman in travail,
[And she has pain in bringing forth]
When her child enters the mouth of the womb,
And she has pain in bringing forth.
5. And one portion of them shall look on the other,
And they shall be terrified,
And they shall be downcast of countenance,
And pain shall seize them,
When they see that Son of Man
Sitting on the throne of his glory.
6. And the kings and the mighty and all who possess the earth shall bless
and glorify and extol him who rules over all, who was hidden.
7. For from the beginning the Son of Man was hidden,
And the Most High preserved him in the presence of His might,
And revealed him to the elect.
8. And the congregation of the elect and holy shall be sown,
And all the elect shall stand before him on that day.
9. And all the kings and the mighty and the exalted and those who rule the
earth
Shall fall down before him on their faces,
And worship and set their hope upon that Son of Man,
And petition him and supplicate for mercy at his hands.
10. Nevertheless that Lord of Spirits will so press them
That they shall hastily go forth from His presence,
And their faces shall be filled with shame,
And the darkness shall grow deeper on their faces.
11. And He will deliver them to the angels for punishment,
To execute vengeance on them because they have oppressed His
children and His elect.
12. And they shall be a spectacle for the righteous and for His elect:
They shall rejoice over them,
Because the wrath of the Lord of Spirits resteth upon them,
And His sword is drunk with their blood.
13. And the righteous and elect shall be saved on that day,
And they shall never thenceforward see the face of the sinners and
unrighteous.
14. And the Lord of Spirits will abide over them,
And with that Son of Man shall they eat
And lie down and rise up for ever and ever.
15. And the righteous and elect shall have risen from the earth,
And ceased to be of downcast countenance.
16. And they shall have been clothed with garments of glory,
And they shall be the garments of life from the Lord of Spirits:
And your garments shall not grow old,
Nor your glory pass away before the Lord of Spirits.
63 The unavailing Repentance of the Kings and the Mighty
63. 1. In those days shall the mighty and the kings who possess the earth
implore (Him) to grant them a little respite from His angels of punishment
to whom they were delivered, that they might fall down and worship before
the Lord of Spirits, and confess their sins before Him. 2. And they shall
bless and glorify the Lord of Spirits, and say:
‘Blessed is the Lord of Spirits and the Lord of kings,
And the Lord of the mighty and the Lord of the rich,
And the Lord of glory and the Lord of wisdom;
3. And splendid in every secret thing is Thy power from generation to
generation,
And Thy glory for ever and ever:
Deep are all Thy secrets and innumerable,
And Thy righteousness is beyond reckoning.
4. We have now learnt that we should glorify
And bless the Lord of kings and Him who is King over all kings.’
5. And they shall say:
‘Would that we had rest to glorify and give thanks
And confess our faith before His glory!
6. And now we long for a little rest, but find it not:
We follow hard upon (it) and obtain (it) not:
And light has vanished from before us,
And darkness is our dwelling-place for ever and ever:
7. For we have not believed before Him,
Nor glorified the name of the Lord of Spirits, [nor glorified our Lord]
But our hope was in the sceptre of our kingdom,
And in our glory.
8. And in the day of our suffering and tribulation He saves us not,
And we find no respite for confession,
That our Lord is true in all His works, and in His judgements and His
justice;
And His judgements have no respect of persons.
9. And we pass away from before His face on account of our works,
And all our sins are reckoned up in righteousness.’
10. Now they will say unto themselves: ‘Our souls are full of unrighteous
gain, but it does not prevent us from descending from the midst thereof into
the †burden† of Sheol.’
11. And after that their faces shall be filled with darkness
And shame before that Son of Man,
And they shall be driven from his presence,
And the sword shall abide before his face in their midst.
12. Thus spake the Lord of Spirits: ‘This is the ordinance and judgement
with respect to the mighty and the kings and the exalted and those who
possess the earth before the Lord of Spirits.’
38. 1. The first Parable.
When the congregation of the righteous shall appear,
And sinners shall be judged for their sins,
And shall be driven from the face of the earth,
2. And when the Righteous One shall appear before the eyes of the
righteous,
Whose elect works hang upon the Lord of Spirits,
And light shall appear to the righteous and the elect who dwell on the
earth,
Where then will be the dwelling of the sinners,
And where the resting-place of those who have denied the Lord of
Spirits?
It had been good for them if they had not been born.
3. When the secrets of the righteous shall be revealed and the sinners
judged,
And the godless driven from the presence of the righteous and elect,
4. From that time those that possess the earth shall no longer be powerful
and exalted:
And they shall not be able to behold the face of the holy,
For the Lord of Spirits has caused His light to appear
On the face of the holy, righteous, and elect.
5. Then shall the kings and the mighty perish
And be given into the hands of the righteous and holy.
6. And thenceforward none shall seek for themselves mercy from the Lord
of Spirits:
For their life is at an end.
39 The Abode of the Righteous and of the Elect One; the Praises of the
Blessed
39. [1. And it †shall come to pass in those days that elect and holy children
†will descend from the high heaven, and their seed †will become one with
the children of men. 2. And in those days Enoch received books of zeal
and wrath, and books of disquiet and expulsion.]
And mercy shall not be accorded to them, saith the Lord of Spirits.
3. And in those days a whirlwind carried me off from the earth,
And set me down at the end of the heavens.
4. And there I saw another vision, the dwelling-places of the holy,
And the resting-places of the righteous.
5. Here mine eyes saw their dwellings with His righteous angels,
And their resting-places with the holy.
And they petitioned and interceded and prayed for the children of men,
And righteousness flowed before them as water,
And mercy like dew upon the earth:
Thus it is amongst them for ever and ever.
6a. And in that place mine eyes saw the Elect One of righteousness and of
faith,
7a. And I saw his dwelling-place under the wings of the Lord of Spirits.
6b. And righteousness shall prevail in his days,
And the righteous and elect shall be without number before Him for
ever and ever.
7b. And all the righteous and elect before Him shall be †strong† as fiery
lights,
And their mouth shall be full of blessing,
And their lips shall extol the name of the Lord of Spirits,
And righteousness before Him shall never fail,
[And uprightness shall never fail before Him].
8. There I wished to dwell,
And my spirit longed for that dwelling-place:
And there heretofore hath been my portion,
For so hath it been established concerning me before the Lord of Spirits.
9. In those days I praised and extolled the name of the Lord of Spirits with
blessings and praises, because He hath destined me for blessing and glory
according to the good pleasure of the Lord of Spirits. 10. For a long time
my eyes regarded that place, and I blessed Him and praised Him, saying:
‘Blessed is He, and may He be blessed from the beginning and for
evermore. 11. And before Him there is no ceasing. He knows before the
world was created what is for ever and what will be from generation unto
generation. 12. Those who sleep not bless Thee: they stand before Thy
glory and bless, praise, and extol, saying: “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of
Spirits: He filleth the earth with spirits.”’ 13. And here my eyes saw all
those who sleep not: they stand before Him and bless and say: ‘Blessed be
Thou, and blessed be the name of the Lord for ever and ever.’ 14. And my
face was changed; for I could no longer behold.
39—41.2 The Four Archangels
40. 1. And after that I saw thousands of thousands and ten thousand times
ten thousand, I saw a multitude beyond number and reckoning, who stood
before the Lord of Spirits. 2. And on the four sides of the Lord of Spirits I
saw four presences, different from those that sleep not, and I learnt their
names: for the angel who went with me made known to me their names, and
showed me all the hidden things.
3. And I heard the voices of those four presences as they uttered praises
before the Lord of glory. 4. The first voice blesses the Lord of Spirits for
ever and ever. 5. And the second voice I heard blessing the Elect One and
the elect ones who hang upon the Lord of Spirits. 6. And the third voice I
heard pray and intercede for those who dwell on the earth and supplicate
in the name of the Lord of Spirits. 7. And I heard the fourth voice fending
off the Satans and forbidding them to come before the Lord of Spirits to
accuse them who dwell on the earth. 8. After that I asked the angel of
peace who went with me, who showed me everything that is hidden: ‘Who
are these four presences which I have seen and whose words I have heard
and written down?’ 9. And he said to me: ‘This first is Michael, the
merciful and long-suffering: and the second, who is set over all the diseases
and all the wounds of the children of men, is Raphael: and the third, who is
set over all the powers, is Gabriel: and the fourth, who is set over the
repentance unto hope of those who inherit eternal life, is named
Phanuel.’ 10. And these are the four angels of the Lord of Spirits and the
four voices I heard in those days.
41. 1. And after that I saw all the secrets of the heavens, and how the
kingdom is divided, and how the actions of men are weighed in the
balance. 2. And there I saw the mansions of the elect and the mansions of
the holy, and mine eyes saw there all the sinners being driven from thence
which deny the name of the Lord of Spirits, and being dragged off: and they
could not abide because of the punishment which proceeds from the Lord of
Spirits.
41.3–9 Astronomical Secrets
3. And there mine eyes saw the secrets of the lightning and of the thunder,
and the secrets of the winds, how they are divided to blow over the earth,
and the secrets of the clouds and dew, and there I saw from whence they
proceed in that place and from whence they saturate the dusty earth. 4.
And there I saw closed chambers out of which the winds are divided, the
chamber of the hail and winds, the chamber of the mist, and of the clouds,
and the cloud thereof hovers over the earth from the beginning of the
world. 5. And I saw the chambers of the sun and moon, whence they
proceed and whither they come again, and their glorious return, and how
one is superior to the other, and their stately orbit, and how they do not
leave their orbit, and they add nothing to their orbit and they take nothing
from it, and they keep faith with each other, in accordance with the oath by
which they are bound together. 6. And first the sun goes forth and
traverses his path according to the commandment of the Lord of Spirits, and
mighty is His name for ever and ever. 7. And after that I saw the hidden
and the visible path of the moon, and she accomplishes the course of her
path in that place by day and by night – the one holding a position opposite
to the other before the Lord of Spirits.
And they give thanks and praise and rest not;
For unto them is their thanksgiving rest.
8. For the sun changes oft for a blessing or a curse,
And the course of the path of the moon is light to the righteous,
And darkness to the sinners in the name of the Lord,
Who made a separation between the light and the darkness,
And divided the spirits of men,
And strengthened the spirits of the righteous,
In the name of His righteousness.
9. For no angel hinders and no power is able to hinder; for He appoints a
judge for them all and he judges them all before Him.
42 The Dwelling-places of Wisdom and of Unrighteousness
42. 1. Wisdom found no place where she might dwell;
Then a dwelling-place was assigned her in the heavens.
2. Wisdom went forth to make her dwelling among the children of men,
And found no dwelling-place:
Wisdom returned to her place
And took her seat among the angels.
3. And unrighteousness went forth from her chambers:
Whom she sought not she found,
And dwelt with them,
As rain in a desert,
And dew on a thirsty land.
43—44 Astronomical Secrets
43. 1. And I saw other lightnings and the stars of heaven, and I saw how
He called them all by their names and they hearkened unto Him. 2. And I
saw how they are weighed in a righteous balance according to their
proportions of light: (I saw) the width of their spaces and the day of their
appearing, and how their revolution produces lightning: and (I saw) their
revolution according to the number of the angels, and (how) they keep faith
with each other. 3. And I asked the angel who went with me who showed
me what was hidden: ‘What are these?’ 4. And he said to me: ‘The Lord of
Spirits hath showed thee their parabolic meaning (lit. ‘their parable’): these
are the names of the holy who dwell on the earth and believe in the name of
the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.’
44. Also another phenomenon I saw in regard to the lightnings: how some
of the stars arise and become lightnings and cannot part with their new
form.
45—57 The Second Parable
45 The Lot of the Apostates; the New Heaven and the New Earth
45. 1. And this is the Second Parable concerning those who deny the name
of the dwelling of the holy ones and the Lord of Spirits.
2. And into the heaven they shall not ascend,
And on the earth they shall not come:
Such shall be the lot of the sinners
Who have denied the name of the Lord of Spirits,
Who are thus preserved for the day of suffering and tribulation.
3. On that day Mine Elect One shall sit on the throne of glory
And shall try their works,
And their places of rest shall be innumerable.
And their souls shall grow strong within them when they see Mine elect
ones,
And those who have called upon My glorious name:
4. Then will I cause Mine Elect One to dwell among them.
And I will transform the heaven and make it an eternal blessing and
light,
5. And I will transform the earth and make it a blessing:
And I will cause Mine elect ones to dwell upon it:
But the sinners and evil-doers shall not set foot thereon.
6. For I have provided and satisfied with peace My righteous ones,
And have caused them to dwell before Me:
But for the sinners there is judgement impending with Me,
So that I shall destroy them from the face of the earth.
46 The Head of Days and the Son of Man
46. 1. And there I saw One, who had a head of days,
And His head was white like wool,
And with Him was another being whose countenance had the
appearance of a man,
And his face was full of graciousness, like one of the holy angels.
2. And I asked the angel who went with me and showed me all the hidden
things, concerning that Son of Man, who he was, and whence he was, (and)
why he went with the Head of Days? 3. And he answered and said unto
me:
This is the Son of Man who hath righteousness,
With whom dwelleth righteousness,
And who revealeth all the treasures of that which is hidden,
Because the Lord of Spirits hath chosen him,
And whose lot hath the pre-eminence before the Lord of Spirits in
uprightness for ever.
4. And this Son of Man whom thou hast seen
Shall †raise up† the kings and the mighty from their seats,
[And the strong from their thrones]
And shall loosen the reins of the strong,
And break the teeth of the sinners;
5. [And he shall put down the kings from their thrones and kingdoms]
Because they do not extol and praise Him,
Nor humbly acknowledge whence the kingdom was bestowed upon
them.
6. And he shall put down the countenance of the strong,
And shall fill them with shame.
And darkness shall be their dwelling,
And worms shall be their bed,
And they shall have no hope of rising from their beds,
Because they do not extol the name of the Lord of Spirits.
7. And these are they who †judge† the stars of heaven,
[And raise their hands against the Most High],
†And tread upon the earth and dwell upon it†.
And all their deeds manifest unrighteousness,
And their power rests upon their riches,
And their faith is in the †gods† which they have made with their hands,
And they deny the name of the Lord of Spirits,
8. And they persecute the houses of His congregations,
And the faithful who hang upon the name of the Lord of Spirits.
47 The Prayer of the Righteous for Vengeance and their Joy at its
coming
47. 1. And in those days shall have ascended the prayer of the righteous.
And the blood of the righteous from the earth before the Lord of Spirits.
2. In those days the holy ones who dwell above in the heavens
Shall unite with one voice
And supplicate and pray [and praise,
And give thanks and bless the name of the Lord of Spirits]
On behalf of the blood of the righteous which has been shed,
And that the prayer of the righteous may not be in vain before the Lord
of Spirits,
That judgement may be done unto them,
And that they may not have to suffer for ever.
3. In those days I saw the Head of Days when He seated himself upon the
throne of His glory,
And the books of the living were opened before Him:
And all His host which is in heaven above and His counsellors stood
before Him,
4. And the hearts of the holy were filled with joy;
Because the number of the righteous had been offered,
And the prayer of the righteous had been heard,
And the blood of the righteous been required before the Lord of Spirits.
48 The Fount of Righteousness; the Son of Man – the Stay of the
Righteous; Judgement of the Kings and the Mighty
48. 1. And in that place I saw the fountain of righteousness,
Which was inexhaustible:
And around it were many fountains of wisdom;
And all the thirsty drank of them,
And were filled with wisdom,
And their dwellings were with the righteous and holy and elect.
2. And at that hour that Son of Man was named
In the presence of the Lord of Spirits,
And his name before the Head of Days.
3. Yea, before the sun and the signs were created,
Before the stars of the heaven were made,
His name was named before the Lord of Spirits.
4. He shall be a staff to the righteous whereon to stay themselves and not
fall,
And he shall be the light of the Gentiles,
And the hope of those who are troubled of heart.
5. All who dwell on earth shall fall down and worship before him,
And will praise and bless and celebrate with song the Lord of Spirits.
6. And for this reason hath he been chosen and hidden before Him,
Before the creation of the world and for evermore.
7. And the wisdom of the Lord of Spirits hath revealed him to the holy and
righteous;
For he hath preserved the lot of the righteous;
Because they have hated and despised this world of unrighteousness,
And have hated all its works and ways in the name of the Lord of
Spirits:
For in his name they are saved,
And according to his good pleasure hath it been in regard to their life.
8. In those days downcast in countenance shall the kings of the earth have
become,
And the strong who possess the land because of the works of their
hands;
For on the day of their anguish and affliction they shall not (be able to)
save themselves,
9. And I will give them over into the hands of Mine elect:
As straw in the fire so shall they burn before the face of the holy:
As lead in the water shall they sink before the face of the righteous,
And no trace of them shall any more be found.
10. And on the day of their affliction there shall be rest on the earth,
And before them they shall fall and not rise again:
And there shall be no one to take them with his hands and raise them:
For they have denied the Lord of Spirits and His Anointed.
The name of the Lord of Spirits be blessed.
49 The Power and Wisdom of the Elect One
49. 1. For wisdom is poured out like water,
And glory faileth not before him for evermore.
2. For he is mighty in all the secrets of righteousness,
And unrighteousness shall disappear as a shadow,
And have no continuance;
Because the Elect One standeth before the Lord of Spirits,
And his glory is for ever and ever,
And his might unto all generations.
3. And in him dwells the spirit of wisdom,
And the spirit which gives insight,
And the spirit of understanding and of might.
And the spirit of those who have fallen asleep in righteousness.
4. And he shall judge the secret things,
And none shall be able to utter a lying word before him;
For he is the Elect One before the Lord of Spirits according to His good
pleasure.
50 The Glorification and Victory of the Righteous; the Repentance of
the Gentiles
50. 1. And in those days a change shall take place for the holy and elect,
And the light of days shall abide upon them,
And glory and honour shall turn to the holy,
2. On the day of affliction on which evil shall have been treasured up
against the sinners.
And the righteous shall be victorious in the name of the Lord of Spirits:
And He will cause the others to witness (this),
That they may repent
And forgo the works of their hands.
3. They shall have no honour through the name of the Lord of Spirits,
Yet through His name shall they be saved,
And the Lord of Spirits will have compassion on them,
For His compassion is great.
4. And He is righteous also in His judgement,
And in the presence of His glory unrighteousness also shall not maintain
itself:
At His judgement the unrepentant shall perish before Him.
5. And from henceforth I will have no mercy on them, saith the Lord of
Spirits.
51 The Resurrection of the Dead, and the Separation by the Judge of
the Righteous and the Wicked
51. 1. And in those days shall the earth also give back that which has been
entrusted to it,
And Sheol also shall give back that which it has received,
And hell shall give back that which it owes.
5a. For in those days the Elect One shall arise,
2. And he shall choose the righteous and holy from among them:
For the day has drawn nigh that they should be saved.
3. And the Elect One shall in those days sit on My throne,
And his mouth shall pour forth all the secrets of wisdom and counsel:
For the Lord of Spirits hath given (them) to him and hath glorified him.
4. And in those days shall the mountains leap like rams,
And the hills also shall skip like lambs satisfied with milk,
And the faces of [all] the angels in heaven shall be lighted up with joy.
5b. And the earth shall rejoice,
c. And the righteous shall dwell upon it,
d. And the elect shall walk thereon.
52 The Seven1
Metal Mountains and the Elect One
52. 1. And after those days in that place where I had seen all the visions of
that which is hidden – for I had been carried off in a whirlwind and they had
borne me towards the west – 2. There mine eyes saw all the secret things
of heaven that shall be, a mountain of iron, and a mountain of copper, and a
mountain of silver, and a mountain of gold, and a mountain of soft metal,
and a mountain of lead.
3. And I asked the angel who went with me, saying, ‘What things are these
which I have seen in secret?’ 4. And he said unto me: ‘All these things
which thou hast seen shall serve the dominion of His Anointed that he may
be potent and mighty on the earth.’
5. And that angel of peace answered, saying unto me: ‘Wait a little and
there shall be revealed unto thee all the secret things, which surround the
Lord of Spirits.
6. And these mountains which thine eyes have seen, The mountain of iron,
and the mountain of copper, and the mountain of silver,
And the mountain of gold, and the mountain of soft metal, and the
mountain of lead,
All these shall be in the presence of the Elect One,
As wax before the fire,
And like the water which streams down from above [upon those
mountains],
And they shall become powerless before his feet.
7. And it shall come to pass in those days that none shall be saved,
Either by gold or by silver,
And none be able to escape.
8. And there shall be no iron for war,
Nor shall one clothe oneself with a breastplate.
Bronze shall be of no service,
And tin [shall be of no service and] shall not be esteemed,
And lead shall not be desired.
9. And all these things shall be [denied and] destroyed from the surface of
the earth,
When the Elect One shall appear before the face of the Lord of Spirits.’
53—54.6 The Valley of Judgement; the Angels of Punishment; the
Communities of the Elect One
53. 1. There mine eyes saw a deep valley with open mouths, and all who
dwell on the earth and sea and islands shall bring to him gifts and presents
and tokens of homage, but that deep valley shall not become full.
2. And their hands commit lawless deeds,
And the sinners devour all whom they lawlessly oppress:
Yet the sinners shall be destroyed before the face of the Lord of Spirits,
And they shall be banished from off the face of His earth,
And they shall perish for ever and ever.
3. For I saw all the angels of punishment abiding (there) and preparing all
the instruments of Satan. 4. And I asked the angel of peace who went with
me: ‘For whom are they preparing these instruments?’ 5. And he said unto
me: ‘They prepare these for the kings and the mighty of this earth, that they
may thereby be destroyed.
6. And after this the Righteous and Elect One shall cause the house of his
congregation to appear: henceforth they shall be no more hindered in the
name of the Lord of Spirits.
7. And these mountains shall not stand as the earth before his
righteousness,
But the hills shall be as a fountain of water,
And the righteous shall have rest from the oppression of sinners.’
54. 1. And I looked and turned to another part of the earth, and saw there a
deep valley with burning fire. 2. And they brought the kings and the
mighty, and began to cast them into this deep valley. 3. And there mine
eyes saw how they made these their instruments, iron chains of
immeasurable weight. 4. And I asked the angel of peace who went with
me, saying: ‘For whom are these chains being prepared?’ 5. And he said
unto me: ‘These are being prepared for the hosts of Azâzêl, so that they
may take them and cast them into the abyss of complete condemnation, and
they shall cover their jaws with rough stones as the Lord of Spirits
commanded.
6. And Michael, and Gabriel, and Raphael, and Phanuel shall take hold of
them on that great day, and cast them on that day into the burning furnace,
that the Lord of Spirits may take vengeance on them for their
unrighteousness in becoming subject to Satan and leading astray those who
dwell on the earth.’
54.7—55.2 Noachic Fragment on the first World Judgement
7. ‘And in those days shall punishment come from the Lord of Spirits, and
He will open all the chambers of waters which are above the heavens, and
of the fountains which are beneath the earth. 8. And all the waters shall be
joined with the waters: that which is above the heavens is the masculine,
and the water which is beneath the earth is the feminine. 9. And they shall
destroy all who dwell on the earth and those who dwell under the ends of
the heaven. 10. And when they have recognized their unrighteousness
which they have wrought on the earth, then by these shall they perish.’
55. 1. And after that the Head of Days repented and said: ‘In vain have I
destroyed all who dwell on the earth.’ 2. And He sware by His great name:
‘Henceforth I will not do so to all who dwell on the earth, and I will set a
sign in the heaven: and this shall be a pledge of good faith between Me and
them for ever, so long as heaven is above the earth. And this is in
accordance with My command.’
55.3—56.4 Final Judgement of Azâzêl, the Watchers and their children
3. ‘When I have desired to take hold of them by the hand of the angels on
the day of tribulation and pain because of this, I will cause My
chastisement and My wrath to abide upon them, saith God, the Lord of
Spirits. 4. Ye †mighty kings† who dwell on the earth, ye shall have to
behold Mine Elect One, how he sits on the throne of glory and judges
Azâzêl, and all his associates, and all his hosts in the name of the Lord of
Spirits.’
56. 1. And I saw there the hosts of the angels of punishment going, and
they held scourges and chains of iron and bronze. 2. And I asked the angel
of peace who went with me, saying: ‘To whom are these who hold the
scourges going?’ 3. And he said unto me: ‘To their elect and beloved ones
that they may be cast into the chasm of the abyss of the valley.
4. And then that valley shall be filled with their elect and beloved,
And the days of their lives shall be at an end,
And the days of their leading astray shall not thenceforward be
reckoned.
56.5–8 Last struggle of heathen Powers against Israel
5. And in those days the angels shall return
And hurl themselves to the east upon the Parthians and Medes:
They shall stir up the kings, so that a spirit of unrest shall come upon
them,
And they shall rouse them from their thrones,
That they may break forth as lions from their lairs,
And as hungry wolves among their flocks.
6. And they shall go up and tread under foot the land of His elect ones,
[And the land of His elect ones shall be before them a threshing-floor
and a highway]:
7. But the city of my righteous shall be a hindrance to their horses.
And they shall begin to fight among themselves,
And their right hand shall be strong against themselves,
And a man shall not know his brother,
Nor a son his father or his mother,
Till there be no number of the corpses through their slaughter,
And their punishment be not in vain.
8. In those days Sheol shall open its jaws,
And they shall be swallowed up therein,
And their destruction shall be at an end;
Sheol shall devour the sinners in the presence of the elect.’
57 The Return from the Dispersion
57. 1. And it came to pass after this that I saw another host of wagons, and
men riding thereon, and coming on the winds from the east, and from the
west to the south. 2. And the noise of their wagons was heard, and when
this turmoil took place the holy ones from heaven remarked it, and the
pillars of the earth were moved from their place, and the sound thereof was
heard from the one end of heaven to the other, in one day. 3. And they
shall all fall down and worship the Lord of Spirits. And this is the end of the
second Parable.
58—71 The Third Parable
58 The Blessedness of the Saints
58. 1. And I began to speak the third Parable concerning the righteous and
elect.
2. Blessed are ye, ye righteous and elect,
For glorious shall be your lot.
3. And the righteous shall be in the light of the sun,
And the elect in the light of eternal life:
The days of their life shall be unending,
And the days of the holy without number.
4. And they shall seek the light and find righteousness with the Lord of
Spirits:
There shall be peace to the righteous in the name of the Eternal Lord.
5. And after this it shall be said to the holy in heaven
That they should seek out the secrets of righteousness, the heritage of
faith:
For it has become bright as the sun upon earth,
And the darkness is past.
6. And there shall be a light that never endeth,
And to a limit (lit. ‘number’) of days they shall not come,
For the darkness shall first have been destroyed,
[And the light established before the Lord of Spirits]
And the light of uprightness established for ever before the Lord of
Spirits.
59 The Lights and the Thunder
[59. 1. In those days mine eyes saw the secrets of the lightnings, and of the
lights, and the judgements they execute (lit. ‘their judgement’): and they
lighten for a blessing or a curse as the Lord of Spirits willeth. 2. And there
I saw the secrets of the thunder, and how when it resounds above in the
heaven, the sound thereof is heard, and he caused me to see the judgements
executed on the earth, whether they be for wellbeing and blessing, or for a
curse, according to the word of the Lord of Spirits. 3. And after that all the
secrets of the lights and lightnings were shown to me, and they lighten for
blessing and for satisfying.]
60 Book of Noah – a Fragment
60 Quaking of the Heaven; Behemoth and Leviathan; the Elements
60. 1. In the year five hundred, in the seventh month, on the fourteenth day
of the month in the life of †Enoch†. In that Parable I saw how a mighty
quaking made the heaven of heavens to quake, and the host of the Most
High, and the angels, a thousand thousands and ten thousand times ten
thousand, were disquieted with a great disquiet. 2. And the Head of Days
sat on the throne of His glory, and the angels and the righteous stood around
Him.
3. And a great trembling seized me,
And fear took hold of me,
And my loins gave way,
And dissolved were my reins,
And I fell upon my face.
4. And Michael sent another angel from among the holy ones and he
raised me up, and when he had raised me up my spirit returned; for I had
not been able to endure the look of this host, and the commotion and the
quaking of the heaven. 5. And Michael said unto me: ‘Why art thou
disquieted with such a vision? Until this day lasted the day of His mercy;
and He hath been merciful and long-suffering towards those who dwell on
the earth. 6. And when the day, and the power, and the punishment, and
the judgement come, which the Lord of Spirits hath prepared for those who
worship not the righteous law, and for those who deny the righteous
judgement, and for those who take His name in vain – that day is prepared;
for the elect a covenant, but for sinners an inquisition.
25. When the punishment of the Lord of Spirits shall rest upon them, it
shall rest in order that the punishment of the Lord of Spirits may not come
in vain, and it shall slay the children with their mothers and the children
with their fathers. Afterwards the judgement shall take place according to
His mercy and His patience.’
7. And on that day were two monsters parted, a female monster named
Leviathan, to dwell in the abysses of the ocean over the fountains of the
waters. 8. But the male is named Behemoth, who occupied with his breast
a waste wilderness named †Dûidâin†, on the east of the garden where the
elect and righteous dwell, where my grandfather was taken up, the seventh
from Adam, the first man whom the Lord of Spirits created. 9. And I
besought the other angel that he should show me the might of those
monsters, how they were parted on one day and cast, the one into the
abysses of the sea, and the other unto the dry land of the wilderness. 10.
And he said to me: ‘Thou son of man, herein thou dost seek to know what is
hidden.’
11. And the other angel who went with me and showed me what was
hidden told me, what is first and last in the heaven in the height, and
beneath the earth in the depth, and at the ends of the heaven, and on the
foundation of the heaven. 12. And the chambers of the winds, and how the
winds are divided, and how they are weighed, and (how) the portals of the
winds are reckoned, each according to the power of the wind, and the power
of the lights of the moon, and according to the power that is fitting: and the
divisions of the stars according to their names, and how all the divisions are
divided. 13. And the thunders according to the places where they fall, and
all the divisions that are made among the lightnings that it may lighten, and
their host that they may at once obey. 14. For the thunder has †places of
rest† (which) are assigned (to it) while it is waiting for its peal; and the
thunder and lightning are inseparable, and although not one and undivided,
they both go together through the spirit and separate not. 15. For when the
lightning lightens, the thunder utters its voice, and the spirit enforces a
pause during the peal, and divides equally between them; for the treasury of
their peals is like the sand, and each one of them as it peals is held in with a
bridle, and turned back by the power of the spirit, and pushed forward
according to the many quarters of the earth. 16. And the spirit of the sea is
masculine and strong, and according to the might of his strength he draws it
back with a rein, and in like manner it is driven forward and disperses amid
all the mountains of the earth. 17. And the spirit of the hoar-frost is his
own angel, and the spirit of the hail is a good angel. 18. And the spirit of
the snow has forsaken (his chamber) on account of his strength – there is a
special spirit therein, and that which ascends from it is like smoke, and its
name is frost. 19. And the spirit of the mist is not united with them in their
chambers, but it has a special chamber; for its course is †glorious† both in
light and in darkness, and in winter and in summer, and in its chamber is an
angel. 20. And the spirit of the dew has its dwelling at the ends of the
heaven, and is connected with the chambers of the rain, and its course is in
winter and summer: and its clouds and the clouds of the mist are connected,
and the one gives to the other. 21. And when the spirit of the rain goes
forth from its chamber, the angels come and open the chamber and lead it
out, and when it is diffused over the whole earth it unites with the water on
the earth. And whensoever it unites with the water on the earth …. 22. For
the waters are for those who dwell on the earth; for they are nourishment
for the earth from the Most High who is in heaven: therefore there is a
measure for the rain, and the angels take it in charge. 23. And these things
I saw towards the Garden of the Righteous. 24. And the angel of peace
who was with me said to me: ‘These two monsters, prepared, conformably
to the greatness of God, shall feed….
61 Angels go off to measure Paradise; the Judgement of the Righteous
by the Elect One; the Praise of the Elect One and of God
61. 1. And I saw in those days how long cords were given to those angels,
and they took to themselves wings and flew, and they went towards the
north.
2. And I asked the angel, saying unto him: ‘Why have those (angels) taken
these cords and gone off?’ And he said unto me: ‘They have gone to
measure.’
3. And the angel who went with me said unto me:
‘These shall bring the measures of the righteous,
And the ropes of the righteous to the righteous,
That they may stay themselves on the name of the Lord of Spirits for
ever and ever.
4. The elect shall begin to dwell with the elect,
And those are the measures which shall be given to faith
And which shall strengthen righteousness.
5. And these measures shall reveal all the secrets of the depths of the earth,
And those who have been destroyed by the desert,
And those who have been devoured by the beasts,
And those who have been devoured by the fish of the sea,
That they may return and stay themselves
On the day of the Elect One;
For none shall be destroyed before the Lord of Spirits,
And none can be destroyed.
6. And all who dwell above in the heaven received a command and power
and one voice and one light like unto fire.
7. And that One (with) their first words they blessed,
And extolled and lauded with wisdom,
And they were wise in utterance and in the spirit of life.
8. And the Lord of Spirits placed the Elect One on the throne of glory.
And he shall judge all the works of the holy above in the heaven,
And in the balance shall their deeds be weighed.
9. And when he shall lift up his countenance
To judge their secret ways according to the word of the name of the
Lord of Spirits,
And their path according to the way of the righteous judgement of the
Lord of Spirits,
Then shall they all with one voice speak and bless,
And glorify and extol and sanctify the name of the Lord of Spirits.
10. And He will summon all the host of the heavens, and all the holy ones
above, and the host of God, the Cherubin, Seraphin, and Ophannin, and all
the angels of power, and all the angels of principalities, and the Elect One,
and the other powers on the earth (and) over the water. 11. On that day
shall they raise one voice, and bless and glorify and exalt in the spirit of
faith, and in the spirit of wisdom, and in the spirit of patience, and in the
spirit of mercy, and in the spirit of judgement and of peace, and in the spirit
of goodness, and shall all say with one voice: “Blessed is He, and may the
name of the Lord of Spirits be blessed for ever and ever.”
12. All who sleep not above in heaven shall bless Him:
All the holy ones who are in heaven shall bless him,
And all the elect who dwell in the garden of life:
And every spirit of light who is able to bless, and glorify, and extol, and
hallow Thy blessed name,
And all flesh shall beyond measure glorify and bless Thy name for ever
and ever.
13. For great is the mercy of the Lord of Spirits, and He is longsuffering,
And all His works and all that He has created
He has revealed to the righteous and elect,
In the name of the Lord of Spirits.’
62 Judgement of the Kings and the Mighty; Blessedness of the
Righteous
62. 1. And thus the Lord commanded the kings and the mighty and the
exalted, and those who dwell on the earth, and said: ‘Open your eyes and
lift up your horns if ye are able to recognize the Elect One.’
2. And the Lord of Spirits seated him on the throne of His glory,
And the spirit of righteousness was poured out upon him,
And the word of his mouth slays all the sinners,
And all the unrighteous are destroyed from before his face.
3. And there shall stand up in that day all the kings and the mighty,
And the exalted and those who hold the earth,
And they shall see and recognize
How he sits on the throne of his glory,
And righteousness is judged before him,
And no lying word is spoken before him.
4. Then shall pain come upon them as on a woman in travail,
[And she has pain in bringing forth]
When her child enters the mouth of the womb,
And she has pain in bringing forth.
5. And one portion of them shall look on the other,
And they shall be terrified,
And they shall be downcast of countenance,
And pain shall seize them,
When they see that Son of Man
Sitting on the throne of his glory.
6. And the kings and the mighty and all who possess the earth shall bless
and glorify and extol him who rules over all, who was hidden.
7. For from the beginning the Son of Man was hidden,
And the Most High preserved him in the presence of His might,
And revealed him to the elect.
8. And the congregation of the elect and holy shall be sown,
And all the elect shall stand before him on that day.
9. And all the kings and the mighty and the exalted and those who rule the
earth
Shall fall down before him on their faces,
And worship and set their hope upon that Son of Man,
And petition him and supplicate for mercy at his hands.
10. Nevertheless that Lord of Spirits will so press them
That they shall hastily go forth from His presence,
And their faces shall be filled with shame,
And the darkness shall grow deeper on their faces.
11. And He will deliver them to the angels for punishment,
To execute vengeance on them because they have oppressed His
children and His elect.
12. And they shall be a spectacle for the righteous and for His elect:
They shall rejoice over them,
Because the wrath of the Lord of Spirits resteth upon them,
And His sword is drunk with their blood.
13. And the righteous and elect shall be saved on that day,
And they shall never thenceforward see the face of the sinners and
unrighteous.
14. And the Lord of Spirits will abide over them,
And with that Son of Man shall they eat
And lie down and rise up for ever and ever.
15. And the righteous and elect shall have risen from the earth,
And ceased to be of downcast countenance.
16. And they shall have been clothed with garments of glory,
And they shall be the garments of life from the Lord of Spirits:
And your garments shall not grow old,
Nor your glory pass away before the Lord of Spirits.
63 The unavailing Repentance of the Kings and the Mighty
63. 1. In those days shall the mighty and the kings who possess the earth
implore (Him) to grant them a little respite from His angels of punishment
to whom they were delivered, that they might fall down and worship before
the Lord of Spirits, and confess their sins before Him. 2. And they shall
bless and glorify the Lord of Spirits, and say:
‘Blessed is the Lord of Spirits and the Lord of kings,
And the Lord of the mighty and the Lord of the rich,
And the Lord of glory and the Lord of wisdom;
3. And splendid in every secret thing is Thy power from generation to
generation,
And Thy glory for ever and ever:
Deep are all Thy secrets and innumerable,
And Thy righteousness is beyond reckoning.
4. We have now learnt that we should glorify
And bless the Lord of kings and Him who is King over all kings.’
5. And they shall say:
‘Would that we had rest to glorify and give thanks
And confess our faith before His glory!
6. And now we long for a little rest, but find it not:
We follow hard upon (it) and obtain (it) not:
And light has vanished from before us,
And darkness is our dwelling-place for ever and ever:
7. For we have not believed before Him,
Nor glorified the name of the Lord of Spirits, [nor glorified our Lord]
But our hope was in the sceptre of our kingdom,
And in our glory.
8. And in the day of our suffering and tribulation He saves us not,
And we find no respite for confession,
That our Lord is true in all His works, and in His judgements and His
justice;
And His judgements have no respect of persons.
9. And we pass away from before His face on account of our works,
And all our sins are reckoned up in righteousness.’
10. Now they will say unto themselves: ‘Our souls are full of unrighteous
gain, but it does not prevent us from descending from the midst thereof into
the †burden† of Sheol.’
11. And after that their faces shall be filled with darkness
And shame before that Son of Man,
And they shall be driven from his presence,
And the sword shall abide before his face in their midst.
12. Thus spake the Lord of Spirits: ‘This is the ordinance and judgement
with respect to the mighty and the kings and the exalted and those who
possess the earth before the Lord of Spirits.’