1 Enoch Chapter 83: Modernized English & Source Wording

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¹ And now, my son Methuselah, I will show you all my visions which I have seen, recounting them before you.

² Two visions I saw before I took a wife, and the one was quite unlike the other: the first when I was learning to write: the second before I took your mother, (when) I saw a terrible vision.

³ And regarding them I prayed to the Lord. I had laid me down in the house of my grandfather Mahalalel, (when) I saw in a vision how the heaven collapsed and was borne off and fell to the earth.

⁴ And when it fell to the earth I saw how the earth was swallowed up in a great abyss, and mountains were suspended on mountains, and hills sank down on hills, and high trees were rent from their stems, and hurled down and sunk in the abyss.

⁵ And then a word fell into my mouth, and I lifted up (my voice) to cry aloud, and said: ‘The earth is destroyed.’

⁶ And my grandfather Mahalalel waked me as I lay near him, and said to me: ‘Why do you cry so, my son, and why do you make such lamentation?’

⁷ And I recounted to him the whole vision which I had seen, and he said to me: ‘A terrible thing have you seen, my son, and of grave moment is your dream-vision as to the secrets of all the sin of the earth: it must sink into the abyss and be destroyed with a great destruction.

⁸ And now, my son, arise and make petition to the Lord of glory, since you are a believer, that a remnant may remain on the earth, and that He may not destroy the whole earth.

⁹ My son, from heaven all this will come on the earth, and on the earth there will be great destruction.

¹⁰ After that I arose and prayed and implored and begged, and wrote down my prayer for the generations of the world, and I will show everything to you, my son Methuselah.

¹¹ And when I had gone forth below and seen the heaven, and the sun rising in the east, and the moon setting in the west, and a few stars, and the whole earth, and everything as †He had known† it in the beginning, then I blessed the Lord of judgment and extolled Him because He had made the sun to go out from the windows of the east, †and he ascended and rose on the face of the heaven, and set out and kept traversing the path shown to him.