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.

2Know that the Most High remembers your destruction, and the angels of heaven rejoice over your destruction.

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?

4And you will become like them, against whom this word will be a witness: ‘You have become companions of sinners.’

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

6And all the words of your lawlessness shall be read out before the Great Holy One, and your faces shall be put to shame, and every deed that is founded in lawlessness shall be rejected.

7Woe to you, sinners, who are in the midst of the sea and upon the dry land, whose memory is evil against you.

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

9And now let us do what we planned, for we have gathered silver, and we have filled our storehouses like water, and many are the laborers of our houses.

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