The Book of Enoch

Chapter 82 [Section 16]

82:1 “And now I have shown you, my son, Mathusala, every sight which I saw prior to your birth. I will relate another vision, which I saw before I was married; they resemble each other.”
82:2 “The first was when I was learning a book; and the other before I was married to your mother. I saw a potent vision;”
82:3 “And on account of these things besought the Lord.”
82:4 “I was lying down in the house of my grandfather Malalel, when I saw in a vision heaven purifying, and snatched away,”
82:5 “and falling to the earth. I saw likewise the earth absorbed by a great abyss; and mountains suspended over mountains.”
82:6 “Hills were sinking upon hills, lofty trees were gliding off from their trunks, and were in the act of being projected, and of sinking into the abyss.”
82:7 “Being alarmed at these things, my voice faltered. I cried out and said, The earth is destroyed. Then my grandfather Malalel raised me up, and said to me: Why do you thus cry out, my son? and wherefore do you thus lament?”
82:8 “I related to him the whole vision which I had seen. He said to me, Confirmed is that which you have seen, my son”
82:9 “And potent the vision of your dream respecting every secret sin of the earth, Its substance shall sink into the abyss, and a great destruction take place.”
82:10 “Now, my son, rise up; and beseech the Lord of glory (for you are faithful), that a remnant may be left upon the earth, and that he would not wholly destroy it. My son, all this calamity upon earth comes down from heaven; upon earth shall there be a great destruction.”
82:11 “ThI arose, prayed, and entreated; and wrote down my prayer for the generations of the world, explaining everything to my son, Mathusala.”
82:12 “When I went out below, and looking up to heaven, beheld the sun proceeding from the east, the moon descending to the west, a few scattered stars, and everything which God has known from the beginning, I blessed the Lord of judgment, and magnified him: because he has sent forth the sun from the chambers of the east; that, ascending and rising in the face of heaven, it might spring up, and pursue the path which has been pointed out to it.”

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