Book of Enoch

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1And now I have shown you, my son Mathusala, every sight which I saw prior to your birth. I will relate another vision, which I saw before I was married; they resemble each other.
2The first was when I was learning a book; and the other before I was married to your mother. I saw a potent vision;
3And on account of these things besought the Lord.
4I was lying down in the house of my grandfather Malalel, when I saw in a vision heaven purifying, and snatched away.
5And falling to the earth, I saw likewise the earth absorbed by a great abyss; and mountains suspended over mountains.
6Hills were sinking upon hills, lofty trees were gliding off from their trunks, and were in the act of being projected, and of sinking into the abyss.
7Being alarmed at these things, my voice faltered. I cried out and said, The earth is destroyed.
8Then my grandfather Malalel raised me up, and said to me: Why do you thus cry out, my son? And wherefore thus do you lament?
9I related to him the whole vision which I had seen. He said to me, Confirmed is that which you have seen, my son;
10And potent the vision of your dream respecting every secret sin of the earth. Its substance shall sink into the abyss, and a great destruction take place.
11Now, my son, rise up; and beseech the Lord of glory (for you are faithful), that a remnant may be left upon earth, and that he would not wholly destroy it. My son, all this calamity upon earth comes down from heaven; upon earth shall there be a great destruction.
12Then I arose, prayed, and entreated; and wrote down my prayer for the generations of the world, explaining everything to my son Mathusala.
13When I went down below, and looking up to heaven, beheld the sun proceeding from the east, the moon descending to the west, a few scattered stars, and everything which God has known from the beginning, I blessed the Lord of judgment, and magnified him: because he hath sent forth the sun from the chambers of the east; that, ascending and rising in the face of heaven, it might spring up, and pursue the path which has been pointed out to it.
14I lifted up my hands in righteousness, and blessed the holy, and the Great One.
15I spoke with the breath of my mouth, and with a tongue of flesh, which God has formed for all the sons of mortal men, that with it they may speak; giving them breath, a mouth, and a tongue to converse with.
16Blessed are you, O Lord, the King, great and powerful in your greatness, Lord of all the creatures of heaven, King of kings, God of the whole world, whose reign, whose kingdom, and whose majesty endure for ever and ever.
17From generation to generation shall your dominion exist. All the heavens are your throne for ever, and all the earth your footstool for ever and for ever.
18For you have made them, and over all you reign.
19No act whatsoever exceeds your power.
20With your wisdom is unchangeable; nor from your throne and from your presence is it ever averted.
21You know all things, see and hear them; nor is anything concealed from you; for you perceive all things.
22The angels of your heavens have transgressed; and on mortal flesh shall your wrath remain, until the day of the great judgment.
23Now then, O God, Lord and mighty King, I entreat you, and beseech you to grant my prayer, that a posterity may be left to me on earth, and that the whole human race may not perish;
24That the earth may not be left destitute, and destruction take place for ever.
25O my Lord, let the race perish from off the earth which has offended you, but a righteous and upright race establish for the plant of a seed for ever.
26Hide not your face, O Lord, from the prayer of your servant.