Apocryphal books (Old Testament); Enoch (Biblical figure); Ethiopic book of Enoch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
10. Nevertheless that Lord of Spirits will so press them
That they shall hastily go forth from His presence,
And their faces shall be filled with shame,
And the darkness shall grow deeper on their faces.
11. And =He will deliver= them to the angels for punishment,
To execute vengeance on them because they have oppressed His
children and His elect.
12. And they shall be a spectacle for the righteous and for His
elect:
They shall rejoice over them,
Because the wrath of the Lord of Spirits resteth upon them,
And His sword is drunk with their blood.
13. And the righteous and elect shall be saved on that day,
And they shall never thenceforward see the face of the sinners and
unrighteous.
14. And the Lord of Spirits will abide over them,
And with that Son of Man shall they eat
And lie down and rise up for ever and ever.
15. And the righteous and elect shall have risen from the earth,
And ceased to be of downcast countenance.
16. And they shall have been clothed with garments of glory,
And they shall be the garments of life from the Lord of Spirits:
And your garments shall not grow old,
Nor your glory pass away before the Lord of Spirits.
LXIII. _The unavailing Repentance of the Kings and the Mighty._
LXIII. 1. In those days shall the mighty and the kings who possess the
earth implore (Him) to grant them a little respite from His angels of
punishment to whom they were delivered, that they might fall down and
worship before the Lord of Spirits, and confess their sins before Him.
2. And they shall bless and glorify the Lord of Spirits, and say:
‘Blessed is the Lord of Spirits and the Lord of kings,
And the Lord of the mighty and the Lord of the rich,
And the Lord of glory and the Lord of wisdom;
3. And splendid in every secret thing is Thy power from generation
to generation,
And Thy glory for ever and ever:
Deep are all Thy secrets and innumerable,
And Thy righteousness is beyond reckoning.
4. We have now learnt that we should glorify
And bless the Lord of kings and Him who is King over all kings.’
5. And they shall say:
‘Would that we had rest to glorify and give thanks
And confess our faith before His glory!
6. And now we long for a little rest, but find it not:
We follow hard upon (it) and obtain (it) not:
And light has vanished from before us,
And darkness is our dwelling-place for ever and ever:
7. For we have not believed before Him,
Nor glorified the name of the Lord of Spirits, [nor glorified our
Lord]
But our hope was in the sceptre of our kingdom,
And in our glory.
8. And in the day of our suffering and tribulation He saves us not,
And we find no respite for confession,
That our Lord is true in all His works, and in His judgements and
His justice;
And His judgements have no respect of persons.
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