3 Enoch Chapter 42: Modernized English & Source Wording

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Rabbi Ishmael said: Metatron, the Angel, the Prince of the Presence, said to me:

¹ Come and I will show you, where the waters are suspended in the highest, where fire is burning in the middle of hail, where lightnings lighten out of the midst of snowy mountains, where thunders are roaring in the celestial heights, where a flame is burning in the middle of the burning fire and where voices make themselves heard in the middle of thunder and earthquake.

² Then I went by his side and he took me by his hand and lifted me up on his wings and showed me all those things. I saw the waters suspended on high in 'Araboth Raqia' by (force of) the name YAH 'EHYE 'ASHER 'EHYE (Jah, I am that I am), And their fruits going down from heaven and watering the face of the world, as it is written (Ps.civ.13): "(He waters the mountains from his chambers:) the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work".

³ And I saw fire and snow and hailstone that were mingled together within each other and yet were undamaged, by (force of) the name 'ESH 'OKELA (consuming fire), as it is written (Deut. iv. 24): "For the Lord, your God, is a consuming fire".

⁴ And I saw lightnings that were lightening out of mountains of snow and yet were not damaged (quenched), by (force of) the name YAH SUR 'OLAMIM (Jah, the everlasting rock), as it is written (Is. xxvi. 4): "For in Jah, YHWH, the everlasting rock".

⁵ And I saw thunders and voices that were roaring in the middle of fiety flames and were not damaged (silenced), by (force of) the name 'EL-SHADDAI RABBA (the Great God Almighty) as it is written (Gen. xvii. i): "I am God Almighty".

⁶ And I saw a flame (and) a glow (glowing flames) that were flaming and glowing in the middle of burning fire, and yet were not damaged (devoured), by (force of) the name YAD 'AL KES YAH (the hand upon the Throne of the Lord) as it is written (Ex. xvii. 16): " And he said: for the hand is upon the Throne of the Lord ".

⁷ And I saw rivers of fire in the middle of rivers of water and they were not damaged (quenched) by (force of) the name 'OSE SHALOM (Maker of Peace) as it is written (Job xxv. 2): "He makes peace in his high places". For he makes peace between the fire and the water, between the hail and the fire, between the wind and the cloud, between the earthquake and the sparks.