1 Enoch 99:1-16

Enoch pronounces woes against sinners who pervert truth, practice idolatry, and commit violence, while blessing the righteous who understand wisdom an...

1Woe to you who practice folly, and who extol and honor words of falsehood: you are destroyed, and you have no good life.

2Woe to you who alter the words of truth, and pervert the eternal ordinance, and reckon themselves as though they were not sinners: they shall be trodden down upon the earth.

3In those days prepare yourselves, O righteous, to raise up your prayers as a memorial, and place them as a testimony before the angels, that they may set the sin of the sinners before the Most High as a memorial.

4In those days the nations shall be stirred up, and the families of the nations shall rise up on the day of destruction.

5And in those days those who are in distress shall go forth and snatch away their children and cast them off, and their offspring shall slip from them, and while they are still nursing they shall cast them away, and they shall not return to them, nor shall they have compassion on their beloved ones.

6Again I swear to you, sinners, that sin has been prepared for a day of unceasing bloodshed.

7And they shall worship stones, and carve images of gold and of silver and of wood and of clay, and they shall worship unclean spirits and demons and every idol, in temples; and no help shall be found from them.

8And they shall be led astray because of the folly of their heart, and their eyes shall be blinded through the fear of their heart and through the visions of their dreams.

9Through these they shall be led astray and become fearful, for they have wrought all their deeds in falsehood, and have worshipped stones, and they shall be destroyed in an instant.

10And in those days blessed are all those who receive the words of wisdom and understand them, and perform the ways of the Most High, and walk in the path of righteousness, and are not led astray with those who are led astray; for they shall be saved.

11Woe to you who spread evil upon your neighbor, for in Sheol you shall be slain.

12Woe to you who lay the foundation of sin and deceit, and who bring bitterness upon the earth; for because of it they shall be brought to an end.

13Woe to you who build your houses by the toil of another, and all their building material is brick and stone of sin: I tell you, you shall have no peace.

14Woe to those who reject the measure and the eternal inheritance of their fathers, and cause their souls to follow after idols; for there shall be no rest for them.

15Woe to those who work iniquity and aid violence, and slay their neighbors until the day of the great judgment.

16For He shall cast down your glory, and set evil in your heart, and stir up the spirit of His wrath, to destroy you all by the sword; and all the righteous and holy shall remember your sins.