1 Enoch 97:1-10

Enoch pronounces judgment against sinners, declaring they will be shamed and destroyed while the righteous's prayers reach God. The angels rejoice in...

1Believe, you righteous, that the sinners shall become a reproach and shall perish in the day of unrighteousness.

2Be it known to you, you sinners, that the Most High remembers your destruction, and the angels rejoice over your destruction.

3What will you do, you sinners, and where will you flee on that day of judgment, when you hear the voice of the prayer of the righteous?

4Yet you shall not be like them—those against whom this word shall be a testimony: 'You have been companions to sinners.'

5And in those days the prayer of the righteous shall reach the Lord, and for you the days of your judgment shall arrive.

6And all the words of your unrighteousness shall be read aloud before the Great and Holy One, and your faces shall be covered with shame, and every work that is established upon unrighteousness shall be cast away.

7Woe to you, sinners, who are in the midst of the sea and upon the dry land, whose remembrance is evil against you.

8Woe to you who acquire silver and gold not in righteousness, and say, 'We have become rich with riches, and we have possessions; and we have gained everything that we desired.

9And now let us do what we have purposed, for we have gathered silver and filled our storehouses, and as water are the laborers of our houses.'

10And like water your falsehood shall flow away, for your wealth shall not remain with you, but shall swiftly ascend away from you; for you have acquired it all in unrighteousness, and you yourselves shall be delivered over to a great curse.