People’s Open Bible

1 Enoch 97

Righteous Rejoice Sinners Fall

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1Trust, you righteous, for sinners will become a disgrace, and they will perish on the day of iniquity.

2It will be known to you that the Most High will remember your destruction, and the angels of heaven will rejoice over your ruin.

3What will you do, you sinners, and where will you flee on that day of judgment, when you hear the voice of the prayer of the righteous?

4You will be like those against whom this word will be a witness: “You have become companions of sinners.”

5And in those days the prayer of the holy ones will reach the Lord, and the days of your judgment will come upon you.

6All the matters of your unrighteousness will be read before the Great Holy One, and your faces will be put to shame. Every work established in unrighteousness will be rejected.

7Woe to you, sinners in the midst of the sea and on dry land, whose remembrance is evil against you.

8Woe to you who acquire silver and gold not in righteousness, and say, ‘We have become rich with wealth, and we have possessions, and we have acquired everything we desired.’

9Now let us do what we have planned, for we have gathered silver and filled our storehouses like water, and the cultivators of our households are many.

10Your falsehood will flow like water, for wealth will not remain with you, but will quickly leave you. For you acquired all of it through injustice, and you will be handed over to a great curse.

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