1 Enoch 83:1-11

¹And now, my son Methuselah, I will show you all the visions which I saw, recounting them before you.

²Two visions I saw before I took a wife, and the one did not resemble the other: the first, when I was learning the book, and the second, before I took your mother, I saw a mighty vision; and concerning them I made supplication to the Lord.

³I had lain down in the house of Mahalalel my grandfather when I saw in a vision the heaven being torn away and snatched up and falling upon the earth.

⁴And when it fell upon the earth, I saw the earth being swallowed up into a great abyss, and mountains were hung upon mountains, and hills sank down upon hills, and tall trees were cut off from their trunks and were cast down and sank into the abyss.

⁵And thereupon a word fell into my mouth, and I lifted up my voice to cry out, and I said: 'The earth is destroyed!'

⁶And Mahalalel my grandfather roused me, as I was lying beside him, and said to me: 'Why do you cry out thus, my son, and why do you lament in this manner?'

⁷And I told him the whole vision which I had seen, and he said to me: 'A terrible thing have you seen, my son, and the hidden things of your dream-vision are weighty: all the sin of the earth — it shall sink into the abyss and be destroyed with a great destruction.

⁸And now, my son, arise and make supplication to the Lord of glory, for you are faithful, that a remnant may be left upon the earth, and that He may not blot out the whole earth.

⁹My son, from heaven shall all this come upon the earth, and upon the earth there shall be a great destruction.'

¹⁰And thereupon I arose and prayed and made supplication, and I wrote down my prayer for the generations of the world; and all this I will show you, my son Methuselah.

¹¹And when I went out below and beheld the heaven, and the sun coming forth from the east, and the moon going down in the west, and a few stars, and the whole earth, and everything as He had known it from the beginning — then I blessed the Lord of judgment and ascribed greatness to Him, because He had brought forth the sun from the windows of the east, so that it ascended and rose upon the face of heaven, and set out and traveled along the path that had been appointed for it.