Enoch - BOOK OF ENOCH, 1882

The Concluding Section of the Book: Woes pronounced on the Godless, the Lawbreakers: evil Plight of Sinners in the last Days: further Woes.

oe to those who act impiously, and glory in the words of untruth, and honor them; ye will be destroyed, and will have no good life.

2. Woe to you who change the words of rectitude, and who transgress the law of eternity, and make themselves that which they are not, namely, sinners; they will be trod down on the earth.

3. And in those days prepare yourselves, ye just, to raise your prayers of remembrance, and ye will place them as a testimony before the angels, that they may lay the sins of the sinners before the Most High as a remembrance.

4. In those days the nations will be disturbed, and the generations of the nations will arise on the day of destruction.

5. And in those days the fruit of the womb will miscarry, and they will mangle their own children; and they will cast their children from them, and miscarriages will pass from them; they will cast sucklings from them, and will not return to them, and will not pity their beloved.

6. Again I swear to you sinners, that sin has been prepared for a day of blood which does not end.

7. And they will worship stones; and others will make images of gold and of silver and of wood and of clay, and others will worship unclean spirits and demons and all kinds of idols, even in the idol temples; but no help will be found in them.

8. And they will become impious in the foolishness of their hearts, and their eyes will be blinded through fear in their hearts and through a vision of their dreams.

9. Through them they will be impious and will fear, because they do all their deeds in untruth, and worship stones; but they will be destroyed in an instant.

10. But in those days blessed are all they who receive the words of wisdom and know them, and do the paths of the Most High, and walk in the path of justice, and do not act impiously with those who act impiously; for they will be saved.

11. Woe to you who spread evil among your neighbors, for ye will be killed in hell.

12. Woe to you who make a foundation for sin and deception, and who cause bitterness on the earth, for thereby they will reach an end.

13. Woe to you who build your houses by the labor of another, and whose building material is nothing but the bricks and stones of sin. I tell you ye will have no peace.

14. Woe to those who cast away the measure and the inheritance of their fathers, which is forever, and cause their souls to follow after idols; no rest will be to them.

15. Woe to those who practice injustice and aid oppression, and kill their neighbors, to the day of the great judgment!

16. For he will cast down your glory, and put the wickedness to your hearts, and will raise the spirit of his anger, and will destroy you all with the sword; and all the just and holy will remember your sins.