People’s Open Bible
1 Enoch 52
Enoch Sees Metal Mountains
Open in the reader →1And after those days, in that place where I had seen all the visions of what is hidden, for I had been snatched up by a whirlwind, and it had carried me westward—
2There my eyes saw all the hidden things of heaven that are to come: a mountain of iron, and a mountain of copper, and a mountain of silver, and a mountain of gold, and a mountain of soft metal, and a mountain of lead.
3And I asked the angel who went with me, saying, “What are these things that I have seen in secret?”
4And he said to me, “All these that you have seen will belong to the dominion of his Anointed One, so that he may command and be mighty upon the earth.”
5And that angel of peace answered, saying to me, 'Wait a little, and every hidden thing that the Lord of Spirits has enclosed will be revealed to you.'
6And those mountains that your eyes saw—the mountain of iron, and the mountain of copper, and the mountain of silver, and the mountain of gold, and the mountain of soft metal, and the mountain of lead—all these will be before the Chosen One like wax before the fire, and like water that runs down from above upon those mountains; and they will become weak before his feet.
7And in those days they will not be saved by gold or by silver, nor will they be able to flee.
8And iron shall not be for war.
Composed from original Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Ge’ez manuscripts, rendered in multiple passes to stay as close to the originals as possible. About this project