1 Enoch Chapter 52: Modernized English & Source Wording

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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 my eyes saw all the secret things of heaven that will 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 to me: ‘All these things which you have seen will serve the dominion of His Anointed that he may be potent and mighty on the earth.’

⁵ And that angel of peace answered, saying to me: ‘Wait a little, and there will be revealed to you all the secret things which surround the Lord of Spirits.

⁶ And these mountains which your 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 will be in the presence of the chosen One As wax before the fire, And like the water which streams down from above [upon those mountains], And they will become powerless before his feet.

⁷ And it will happen in those days that none will be saved, Either by gold or by silver, And none be able to escape.

⁸ And there will be no iron for war, Nor will one clothe oneself with a breastplate. Bronze will be of no service, And tin [will be of no service and] will not be esteemed, And lead will not be desired.

⁹ And all these things will be [denied and] destroyed from the surface of the earth, When the chosen One will appear before the face of the Lord of Spirits.’