Apocryphal books (Old Testament); Enoch (Biblical figure); Ethiopic book of Enoch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
9. Woe to you, ye sinners, on account of the words of your mouth,
And on account of the deeds of your hands which your godlessness has
wrought,
In blazing flames burning worse than fire shall ye burn.
10. And now, know ye that from the angels He will inquire as to your
deeds in heaven, from the sun and from the moon and from the stars in
reference to your sins because upon the earth ye execute judgement on
the righteous. 11. And He will summon to testify against you every cloud
and mist and dew and rain; for they shall all be withheld because of you
from descending upon you, and they shall be mindful of your sins. 12.
And now give presents to the rain that it be not withheld from
descending upon you, nor yet the dew, when it has received gold and
silver from you that it may descend. 13. When the hoar-frost and snow
with their chilliness, and all the snow-storms with all their plagues
fall upon you, in those days ye shall not be able to stand before them.
CI. _Exhortation to the Fear of God: all Nature fears Him, but not the
Sinners._
CI. 1. Observe the heaven, ye children of heaven, and every work of the
Most High, and fear ye Him and work no evil in His presence. 2. If He
closes the windows of heaven, and withholds the rain and the dew from
descending on the earth on your account, what will ye do then? 3. And if
He sends His anger upon you because of your deeds, ye cannot petition
Him; for ye spake proud and insolent words against His righteousness:
therefore ye shall have no peace. 4. And see ye not the =sailors= of the
ships, how their ships are tossed to and fro by the waves, and are
shaken by the winds, and are in sore trouble? 5. And therefore do they
fear because all their goodly possessions go upon the sea with them, and
they have evil forebodings of heart that the sea will swallow them and
they will perish therein.
6. Are not the entire sea and all its waters, and all its movements, the
work of the Most High, and has He not set limits to its doings, and
confined it throughout by the sand? 7. And at His reproof it is afraid
and dries up, and all its fish die and all that is in it; but ye sinners
that are on the earth fear Him not. 8. Has He not made the heaven and
the earth, and all that is therein? Who has given understanding and
wisdom to everything that moves on the earth and in the sea? 9. Do not
the =sailors= of the ships fear the sea? Yet sinners fear not the Most
High.
CII. _Terrors of the Day of Judgement: the adverse Fortunes of the
Righteous on the Earth._
CII. 1. In those days when He hath brought a grievous fire upon you,
Whither will ye flee, and where will ye find deliverance?
And when He launches forth His word against you,
Will you not be affrighted and fear?
2. And all the luminaries shall be affrighted with great fear,
And all the earth shall be affrighted and tremble and be alarmed.
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