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The Book of Enoch

99.1 Woe to you who do impious deeds and praise and honour lying words;

you will be destroyed and will not have a good life.

99.2 Woe to you who alter the words of truth, and they distort the eternal

law and count themselves as being without sin; they will be trampled

underfoot on the ground.
99.3 In those days make ready, you righteous, to raise your prayers as a

reminder and lay them as a testimony before the Angels, that they may lay
the sin of the sinners before the Most High as a reminder.

99.4 In those days the nations will be thrown into confusion and the races
of the nations will rise on the Day of Destruction.

99.5 And in those days, those who are in need will go out, seize their

children, and cast out their children. And their offspring will slip from

them, and they will cast out their children while they are still sucklings, and

will not return to them, and will not have mercy on their beloved ones.

99.6 And again I swear to you, the sinners, that sin is ready for the Day of

Unceasing Bloodshed.

99.7 And they worship stone, and some carve images of gold and of silver,

and of wood and of clay. And some, with no knowledge, worship unclean

spirits and demons, and every kind of error. But no help will be obtained

from them.

99.8 And they will sink into impiety because of the folly of their hearts,

and their eyes will be blinded through the fear of their hearts, and through

the vision of their ambitions.

99.9 Through these they will become impious and fearful, for they do all

their deeds with lies, and worship stones, and they will be destroyed at the

same moment.

99.10 And in those days, blessed are those who accept the words of

wisdom, and understand them, and follow the paths of the Most High, and

walk in the path of righteousness, and do not act impiously with the

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