1 Enoch Chapter 53: Modernized English & Source Wording

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¹ There my eyes saw a deep valley with open mouths, and all who dwell on the earth and sea and islands will bring to him gifts and presents and tokens of homage, but that deep valley will not become full.

² And their hands commit lawless deeds, And the sinners devour all whom they lawlessly oppress: Yet the sinners will be destroyed before the face of the Lord of Spirits, And they will be banished from off the face of His earth, And they will perish forever 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 to 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 Chosen one will cause the house of his congregation to appear: from now on they will be no longer hindered in the name of the Lord of Spirits.

⁷ And these mountains will not stand as the earth before his righteousness, But the hills will be as a fountain of water, And the righteous will have rest from the oppression of sinners.’