1 Enoch Chapter 97: Modernized English & Source Wording

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¹ Believe, you righteous, that the sinners will become a shame And perish in the day of unrighteousness.

² Be it known to you (you sinners) that the Most High is mindful of your destruction, And the angels of heaven rejoice over your destruction.

³ What will you do, you sinners, And where will you flee on that day of judgment, When you hear the voice of the prayer of the righteous?

⁴ Yes, you will fare like to them, Against whom this word will be a testimony: “You have been companions of sinners.”

⁵ And in those days the prayer of the righteous will reach to the Lord, And for you the days of your judgment will come.

⁶ And all the words of your unrighteousness will be read out before the Great Holy One, And your faces will be covered with shame, And He will reject every work which is grounded on unrighteousness.

⁷ Misery to you, you sinners, who live on the mid ocean and on the dry land, Whose remembrance is evil against you.

⁸ Misery to you who acquire silver and gold in unrighteousness and say: ‘We have become rich with riches and have possessions; And have acquired everything we have desired.

⁹ And now let us do what we purposed: For we have gathered silver,

^9c And many are the farmers in our houses.’

^9d And our granaries are (brim) full as with water,

¹⁰ Yes and like water your lies will flow away; For your riches will not abide But speedily ascend from you; For you have acquired it all in unrighteousness, And you will be given over to a great curse.