1 Enoch 104:1-12

¹I swear to you, O righteous, that in heaven the angels make remembrance of you for good before the glory of the Great One; and your names are written before the glory of the Great One.

²Hope, for in former times you were put to shame through evils and afflictions; but now you shall shine like the lights of heaven, and you shall be seen, and the gates of heaven shall be opened to you.

³And your cry — cry out for judgment, and it shall appear to you; for from the angels shall all your tribulation be required, and from all those who aided those who plundered you.

⁴Hope, and do not abandon your hope, for there shall be for you great joy like the angels of heaven.

⁵What shall you do? You shall not have to hide yourselves on the day of the great judgment, and you shall not be found like the sinners; and eternal judgment shall be far from you for all the generations of the world. And now, fear not, O righteous, when you see the sinners growing strong and prospering in their desires; and do not be partners with them, but keep far from their violence, for you are to be partners with the host of heaven.

⁶For though you sinners say, 'None shall search out nor write down all our sins' — they are writing down all your sins every day.

⁷And now I show you that light and darkness, day and night, behold all your sins.

⁸Do not be forgetful in your heart, and do not lie, and do not alter the word of truth, and do not falsify the word of the Holy and Great One, and do not glorify your idols; for all your lying and all your impiety is not unto righteousness but unto great sin.

⁹And now I know this mystery: that many sinners shall alter and pervert the word of truth, and shall speak evil words and shall lie, and shall contrive great fabrications, and shall write books concerning their own words.

¹⁰But when they write down all my words truthfully in their tongues, and neither change nor diminish anything from my words, but write them all down truthfully — all that I first testified concerning them —

¹¹then I know another mystery: that to the righteous and the wise shall be given the books for joy and for truth and for much wisdom.

¹²To them shall the books be given, and they shall believe in them and rejoice in them; and all the righteous who have learned from them all the paths of truth shall be recompensed.