1 Enoch Chapter 84: Modernized English & Source Wording

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¹ And I lifted up my hands in righteousness and blessed the Holy and Great One, and spoke with the breath of my mouth, and with the tongue of flesh, which God has made for the children of the flesh of men, that they should speak with it, and He gave them breath and a tongue and a mouth that they should speak with it:

² ‘Blessed be You, O Lord, King, Great and mighty in Your greatness, Lord of the whole creation of the heaven, King of kings and God of the whole world. And Your power and kingship and greatness abide forever and ever, And throughout all generations Your dominion; And all the heavens are Your throne forever, And the whole earth Your footstool forever and ever.

³ For You have made and You rule all things, And nothing is too hard for You, Wisdom departs not from the place of Your throne, Nor turns away from Your presence. And You know and see and hear everything, And there is nothing hidden from You [for You see everything].

⁴ And now the angels of Your heavens are guilty of trespass, And upon the flesh of men remains Your anger until the great day of judgment.

⁵ And now, O God and Lord and Great King, I implore and beg You to fulfill my prayer, To leave me a descendants on earth, And not destroy all the flesh of man, And make the earth without inhabitant, So that there should be an eternal destruction.

⁶ And now, my Lord, destroy from the earth the flesh which has aroused Your anger, But the flesh of righteousness and uprightness establish as a plant of the eternal seed, And hide not Your face from the prayer of Your servant, O Lord.’