1 Enoch 61

1And I saw in those days that long cords were given to those angels, and they took for themselves wings and flew, and they went toward the north.

2And I asked the angel, saying, “Why have they taken these cords and gone?” And he said to me, “They have gone so that they may measure.”

3And the angel who went with me said to me, “These are the measures of the righteous and the cords of the righteous; they will come to the righteous, so that they may rely on the name of the Lord of Spirits forever and ever.”

4And the chosen ones shall dwell with the chosen ones, and these are the measures that shall be given for faith, and they shall strengthen righteousness.

5And these measures shall reveal all the hidden things in the depth of the earth, and those who were destroyed in the wilderness, and those who were devoured by wild beasts, and those who were devoured by the fish of the sea, so that they may return and be supported on the day of the Chosen One; for none shall perish before the Lord of Spirits, and none can perish.

6And all those in the height of heaven received a command, and power, and a voice, and light like fire.

7And to him belongs the first word; they shall bless and exalt and praise with wisdom, and they shall be wise in speech and in the spirit of life.

8And the Lord of Spirits seated the Chosen One on the throne of glory, and he will judge all the works of the holy ones in the height of heaven, and he will weigh their deeds in the balance.

9And when he lifts up his face to judge their hidden ways by the word of the name of the Lord of Spirits, and their conduct by the path of righteousness of the Lord of Spirits, then all of them will speak with one voice, and they will bless and praise and exalt and sanctify the name of the Lord of Spirits.

10And all the hosts of the heavens shall cry out, and all the holy ones above, and the host of the Lord—the Keruben, the Seraphen, and the Ophannin—and all the angels of power, and all the angels of principalities, and the Chosen One, and the other powers that are on the dry land and over the water.

11On that day they shall raise one voice, and they shall bless and praise and exalt in the spirit of faith, and in the spirit of wisdom, and in the spirit of patience, and in the spirit of mercy, and in the spirit of righteousness and peace, and in the spirit of goodness; and all of them shall say with one voice, ‘Blessed be he, and blessed be the name of the Lord of Spirits forever and ever.’

12All who do not sleep in the heights of heaven shall bless him; all the holy ones who are in heaven shall bless him, and all the chosen ones who dwell in the garden of life; and every spirit of light that is able to bless and glorify and exalt and sanctify your blessed name; and all flesh shall exceedingly and with power praise and bless your name forever and ever.

13For abundant is the mercy of the Lord of Spirits, and he is slow to anger; and all his works and all the measure of what he has made he has revealed to the righteous and the chosen in the name of the Lord of Spirits.