1 Enoch Chapter 80: Modernized English & Source Wording

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¹ And in those days the angel Uriel answered and said to me: ‘Look, I have shown you everything, Enoch, and I have revealed everything to you that you should see this sun and this moon, and the leaders of the stars of the heaven and all those who turn them, their tasks and times and departures.

² And in the days of the sinners the years will be shortened, And their seed will be tardy on their lands and fields, And all things on the earth will alter, And will not appear in their time: And the rain will be kept back And the heaven will withhold (it).

³ And in those times the fruits of the earth will be backward, And will not grow in their time, And the fruits of the trees will be withheld in their time.

⁴ And the moon will alter her order, And not appear at her time.

⁵ [And in those days the sun will be seen and he will journey in the evening †on the extremity of the great chariot in †the west] And will shine more brightly than accords with the order of light.

⁶ And many chiefs of the stars will disobey the order (prescribed). And these will alter their orbits and tasks, And not appear at the seasons prescribed to them.

⁷ And the whole order of the stars will be concealed from the sinners, And the thoughts of those on the earth will err concerning them, [And they will be altered from all their ways], Yes, they will err and take them to be gods.

⁸ And evil will be multiplied upon them, And punishment will come upon them So as to destroy all.’