BookOfEnoch

The Book of Enoch
their young, and to complain to their Lord.
89.16 But a sheep, which had been saved from the wolves, fled and escaped
to the wild asses. And I saw the sheep moaning and crying out, and
petitioning the Lord with all their power, until that Lord of the sheep came
down at the call of the sheep, from a high room, and came to them, and
looked at them.
89.17 And he called that sheep, which had fled from the wolves, and spoke
to it about the wolves, that it should warn them that they should not touch
the sheep.
89.18 And the sheep went to the wolves, in accordance with the Word of
the Lord, and another sheep met that sheep and went with it. And the two
of them together, entered the assembly of those wolves, spoke to them, and
warned them that from then on, they should not touch those sheep.
89.19 And after this, I saw the wolves, how they acted even more harshly
towards the sheep, with all their power, and the sheep called out.
89.20 And their Lord came to the sheep and began to beat those wolves;
and the wolves began to moan, but the sheep became silent and from then
on they did not cry out.
89.21 And I looked at the sheep until they escaped from the wolves; but the
eyes of the wolves were blinded, and those wolves went out in pursuit of
the sheep with all their forces.
89.22 And the Lord of the sheep went with them, as he led them, and all his
sheep followed him; and his face was glorious, and his appearance terrible
and magnificent.
89.23 But the wolves began to pursue those sheep until they met them by a
stretch of water.
89.24 And that stretch of water was divided, and the water stood on one
side, and on the other, before them. And their Lord as he led them, stood
between them and the wolves.
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