Book of Enoch Henok

CHAP. LXXXIL 119
up, and said to me : Why dost thou thus cry out,
my son ? and wherefore dost thou thus lament ?
8. I related to him the whole vision which I had
seen. He said to me, Confirmed is that which
thou hast seen, my son ;
9. And potent the vision of thy dream respecting
every secret sin of the earth. Its substance shall
sink into the abyss, and a great destruction take
place.
10. Now, my son, rise up ; and beseech the Lord
of glory (for thou art faithful), that a remnant may
be left upon earth, and that he would not wholly
destroy it. My son, all this calamity upon earth
comes down from heaven ; ^ upon earth shall there
be a great destruction.
11. Then I arose, prayed, and entreated; and
wrote down my prayer for the generations of the
world, explaining everything to my son Mathusala.
12. When I went out below, and looking up to
heaven, beheld the sun proceeding from the east, the
moon descending to the west, a few scattered stars,
and everything which God ^ has known from the
beginning, I blessed the Lord of judgment, and
mao'nified him : because he hath sent forth the sun
from the chambers ^ of the east ; that, ascending and
rising in the face of heaven, it might spring up, and
pursue the path which has been pointed out to it.
^ all this upon earth is from heaven. ^ he, ^ windows.