the-book-of-enoch-r-h-charles - Fallen Angels

236 The Booh of Enoch [Sect. V
And for your fall there shall be no compassion,
And your Creator will rejoice at your destruction.
11. And your righteous ones in those days shall be
A reproach to the sinners and the godless.
Enoch's Grief : fresh Woes against the Sinners.
XCV. 1. Oh that mine eyes were [a cloud of] waters
That I might weep over you.
And pour down my tears as a cloud f of f waters :
That so I might rest from my trouble of heart
2. f "Who has permitted you to practise reproaches and wicked-
ness ?
And so judgement shall overtake you, sinners.
3. Fear not the sinners, ye righteous
For again will the Lord deliver them into your hands,
of darkness. > g, a. 10. Your
Creator will rejoice at your destruc-
tion. This sentiment has its parallels
in the 0. T., of. Pss. S'.^ 37"' '^ and
in our text Sg"' and 97^- 11. Tour
righteous ones, i. e. the righteous
among his children's descendants. This
stanza is imperfect.
XC V. 1. Oh that mine eyes were
[a cloud of] waters. ' Cloud ' here
is impossiblej however it may be in the
next line. Its genesis is, I think,
clear. The text = D^D \yS, ""TV in^"'D.
Here the impossible pv is either a
dittograph of '^''11 : then we should
have ' Oh that mine eyes were waters '
or it is a corruption of fV, In that
case we should have ' Oh that mine
eyes were a spring of waters '. In
this latter case we might compare 2
Bar. 35" ' Become ye springs, mine
eyes, and ye, mine eyelids, a fount
of tears '. Our text, of course, is based
on Jer. 9^ ' Oh that my head were
waters, and mine eyes a fountain of
:
;
f!
tears '. As a, cloud of waters =
D^O py3, which should probably have
been translated ' as a cloud pours
waters ' : or still better take D'D as
corrupt for Dit : then we should have
'as a cloud (pours) rain'. 2.
"Who has permitted (lit. ' given ') you
((/,i8( = aajnJ 'D)). But a-g{ = Cl33n'' 1DJ
' Who will give you ' or ' Oh that ye
were ' is probably right. Then either
omitting ' to practise ' with g, or emend-
ing tfegabgrft into tStgabarfl, we should
have ' Oh that ye were become a re-
proach and wickedness '. In that case we
should in the next line adopt the sub-
junctive with fi and not the indicative
in a. The couplet would then run :
' Oh that ye were become a reproach
and an evil
And that so judgement might over-
take you, sinners.'
3. Yet let not the righteous fear ; for
the period of their supremacy is at hand
cf. 9112. Again. The writer may
refer to the Macoabean victories ; for
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