1 Enoch 60

1In the five-hundredth year, in the seventh month, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the life of Henok, in that parable I saw that the heaven of heavens was shaken with a great shaking, and the host of the Most High, and the angels, thousands of thousands and ten thousand times ten thousand, were stirred in a great turmoil.

2And the Head of Days was sitting on the throne of his glory, and the angels and the righteous were standing around him.

3And as for me, a great trembling seized me, and fear took hold of me; and my loins were broken, and my kidneys were loosened, and I fell on my face.

4And Michael sent another angel from among the holy ones, and he lifted me up. And when he lifted me up, my spirit entered in, for I was not able to endure the sight of that power and its shaking and the quaking of heaven.

5And Michael said to me, “Why are you troubled by such a vision? Until today the day of his mercy has lasted, and he has been merciful and slow to wrath toward those who dwell upon the dry land.”

6And when the day and the power and the punishment and the judgment come, which the Lord of Spirits has prepared for those who do not bow down to the righteous law, and for those who deny the righteous judgment, and for those who take his name in vain—that day has been prepared for the chosen as a covenant, and for sinners as an inquiry.

7And on that day the two monsters were separated: a female monster whose name is Lewyatan, to dwell in the abyss of the sea, above the springs of the waters.

8And the name of the male was Behemoth, who occupies with his breast an unseen wilderness named Dundayin, east of the garden, where the chosen and the righteous dwell, where my great-grandfather was taken up, the seventh from Adam, the first of men whom the Lord of Spirits made.

9And I asked another angel that he should show me the power of those monsters, how they were separated on one day and were cast, one into the depths of the sea and one onto the dry land of the wilderness.

10And he said to me, “You, son of man, here you desire to understand what is hidden.”

11And another angel, who went with me and showed me what is hidden, told me what is first and what is last in heaven, in the height, and beneath the earth in the depth, and at the ends of heaven, and at the foundations of heaven.

12And the treasuries of the spirits, and how the spirits are divided, and how they are weighed out, and the portals of the spirits are reckoned, each according to the power of the spirit, and their powers for the light of the moon, and according to the power of righteousness, and the divisions of the stars by their names—every division shall be apportioned.

13And the thunder, according to their places of striking, and for every division that is divided by the lightning, so that it may flash—and their restraint, so that they may hear quickly.

14For resting places have been given to the thunder with patience for the sound of its voice; and the thunder and the lightning are not separated, and though they are not one, by the Spirit the two of them go together and are not separated.

15For when the lightning flashes, the thunder gives its voice, and the spirit rests at its appointed time, and it divides equally among them; for the treasury of their times is of sand, and the two of them are restrained with a bridle and turned back by the power of the spirit, and they are driven on likewise according to the many regions of the earth.

16And the spirit of the sea is male and strong, and according to the might of its strength he holds it back with a rein, and thus it is driven out and scattered among all the mountains of the earth.

17And the spirit of the hoarfrost is its own angel, and the spirit of the hail is a good angel.

18And the spirit of the hail departed by the force of his might, and its spirit is by itself; and what goes up from it is like smoke, and its name is Frost.

19And the spirit of the mist is not joined with them in their storehouses, but its own storehouse is by itself; for its course is glorious in it, both in light and in darkness, and in winter and in summer, and its storehouse is an angel.

20And the spirit of the dew has its dwelling at the ends of heaven, and it is joined with the storehouses of the rain; and its course is in winter and in summer, and its clouds and the clouds of the mist are joined together, and one gives to another.

21And when the spirit of the rain is stirred from its storehouse, the angels come and open the storehouse and bring it out. And when it is scattered upon all the dry ground, it is joined with the water that is upon the dry ground; and whenever it is joined with the water upon the dry ground . . .