Apocryphal books (Old Testament); Enoch (Biblical figure); Ethiopic book of Enoch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
11. Woe to you who spread evil to your neighbours;
For you shall be slain in Sheol.
12. Woe to you who make deceitful and false measures,
And (to them) who cause bitterness on the earth;
For they shall thereby be utterly consumed.
13. Woe to you who build your houses through the grievous toil of
others,
And all their building materials are the bricks and stones of sin;
I tell you ye shall have no peace.
14. Woe to them who reject the measure and eternal heritage of their
fathers,
And whose souls follow after idols;
For they shall have no rest.
15. Woe to them who work unrighteousness and help oppression,
And slay their neighbours until the day of the great judgement.
16. For He shall cast down your glory,
And bring affliction on your hearts,
And shall arouse =His fierce indignation=,
And destroy you all with the sword;
And all the holy and righteous shall remember your sins.
C. _The Sinners destroy each other: Judgement of the fallen Angels: the
Safety of the Righteous: further Woes for the Sinners._
C. 1. And in those days in one place the fathers together with their
sons shall be smitten,
And brothers one with another shall fall in death,
Till the streams flow with their blood.
2. For a man shall not withhold his hand from slaying his sons and
his son’s sons,
And the sinner shall not withhold his hand from his honoured
brother:
From dawn till sunset they shall slay one another.
3. And the horse shall walk up to the breast in the blood of
sinners,
And the chariot shall be submerged to its height.
4. In those days the angels shall descend into the secret places,
And gather together into one place all those who brought down sin,
And the Most High will arise on that day of Judgement,
To execute great judgement amongst sinners.
5. And over all the righteous and holy He will appoint guardians
from amongst the holy angels,
To guard them as the apple of an eye,
Until He makes an end of all wickedness and all sin,
And though the righteous sleep a long sleep, they have nought to
fear.
6. And (then) the children of the earth shall see the wise =in
security=,
And shall understand all the words of this book,
And recognize that their riches shall not be able to save them
In the overthrow of their sins.
7. Woe to you, sinners, on the day of strong anguish,
=Ye who= afflict the righteous and burn them with fire:
Ye shall be requited according to your works.
8. Woe to you, ye obstinate of heart,
Who watch in order to devise wickedness:
Therefore shall fear come upon you,
And there shall be none to help you.
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