1 Enoch Chapter 98: Modernized English & Source Wording

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¹ And now I swear to you, to the wise and to the foolish, For you will have manifold experiences on the earth.

² For you men will put on more adornments than a woman, And coloured garments more than a virgin: In royalty and in grandeur and in power, And in silver and in gold and in purple, And in splendor and in food they will be poured out as water.

³ Therefore they will be wanting in doctrine and wisdom, And they will perish thereby together with their possessions; And with all their glory and their splendor, And in shame and in slaughter and in great destitution, Their spirits will be cast into the furnace of fire.

⁴ I have sworn to you, you sinners, as a mountain has not become a slave, And a hill does not become the handmaid of a woman, Even so sin has not been sent on the earth, But man of himself has created it, And under a great curse will they fall who commit it.

⁵ And barrenness has not been given to the woman, But on account of the deeds of her own hands she dies without children.

⁶ I have sworn to you, you sinners, by the Holy Great One, That all your evil deeds are revealed in the heavens, And that none of your deeds of oppression are covered and hidden.

⁷ And do not think in your spirit nor say in your heart that you do not know and that you do not see that every sin is every day recorded in heaven in the presence of the Most High.

⁸ From from now on you know that all your oppression with which you oppress is written down every day till the day of your judgment.

⁹ Misery to you, you fools, for through your folly will you perish: and you disobey against the wise, and so good hap will not be your portion.

¹⁰ And now, know that you are prepared for the day of destruction: therefore do not hope to live, you sinners, but you will depart and die; for you know no ransom; for you are prepared for the day of the great judgment, for the day of tribulation and great shame for your spirits.

¹¹ Misery to you, you obstinate of heart, who work wickedness and eat blood: Where have you good things to eat and to drink and to be filled? From all the good things which the Lord the Most High has placed in abundance on the earth; therefore you will have no peace.

¹² Misery to you who love the deeds of unrighteousness: therefore do you hope for good hap to yourselves? know that you will be delivered into the hands of the righteous, and they will cut off your necks and kill you, and have no mercy upon you.

¹³ Misery to you who rejoice in the tribulation of the righteous; for no grave will be dug for you.

¹⁴ Misery to you who treated as worthless the words of the righteous; for you will have no hope of life.

¹⁵ Misery to you who write down lying and godless words; for they write down their lies that men may hear them and act godlessly towards (their) neighbor.

¹⁶ Therefore they will have no peace but die a sudden death.