1. The first Parable.
When the congregation of the righteous shall appear,
And sinners shall be judged for their sins,
And shall be driven from the face of the earth,
2. And when the Righteous One shall appear before the eyes of the
righteous,
Whose elect works hang upon the Lord of Spirits,
And light shall appear to the righteous and the elect who dwell on
the earth,
Where then will be the dwelling of the sinners,
And where the resting-place of those who have denied the Lord of
Spirits?
It had been good for them if they had not been born.
3. When the secrets of the righteous shall be revealed and the
sinners judged,
And the godless driven from the presence of the righteous and elect,
4. From that time those that possess the earth shall no longer be
powerful and exalted:
And they shall not be able to behold the face of the holy,
For the Lord of Spirits =has caused His light to appear=
On the face of the holy, righteous, and elect.
5. Then shall the kings and the mighty perish
And be given into the hands of the righteous and holy.
6. And thenceforward none shall seek for themselves mercy from the
Lord of Spirits:
For their life is at an end.
XXXIX. _The Abode of the Righteous and of the Elect One: the Praises of
the Blessed._
XXXIX. [1. And it †shall come to pass in those days that elect and holy
children †will descend from the high heaven, and their seed †will become
one with the children of men. 2. And in those days Enoch received books
of zeal and wrath, and books of disquiet and expulsion.]
And mercy shall not be accorded to them, saith the Lord of Spirits.
3. And in those days a whirlwind carried me off from the earth,
And set me down at the end of the heavens.
4. And there I saw another vision, the dwelling-places of the holy,
And the resting-places of the righteous.
5. Here mine eyes saw their dwellings with His righteous angels,
And their resting-places with the holy.
And they petitioned and interceded and prayed for the children of
men.
And righteousness flowed before them as water,
And mercy like dew upon the earth:
Thus it is amongst them for ever and ever.
6 _a._ And in that place mine eyes saw the Elect One of
righteousness and of faith,
7 _a._ And I saw his dwelling-place under the wings of the Lord of
Spirits.
6 _b._ And righteousness shall prevail in his days,
And the righteous and elect shall be without number before Him for
ever and ever.
7 _b._ And all the righteous and elect before Him shall be †strong†
as fiery lights,
And their mouth shall be full of blessing,
And their lips shall extol the name of the Lord of Spirits,
And righteousness before Him shall never fail,
[And uprightness shall never fail before Him].
8. There I wished to dwell,
And my spirit longed for that dwelling-place:
And there heretofore hath been my portion,
For so hath it been established concerning me before the Lord of
Spirits.
9. In those days I praised and extolled the name of the Lord of Spirits
with blessings and praises, because He hath destined me for blessing and
glory according to the good pleasure of the Lord of Spirits. 10. For a
long time my eyes regarded that place, and I blessed Him and praised
Him, saying: ‘Blessed is He, and may He be blessed from the beginning
and for evermore. 11. And before Him there is no ceasing. He knows
before the world was created what is for ever and what will be from
generation unto generation. 12. Those who sleep not bless Thee: they
stand before Thy glory and bless, praise, and extol, saying: “Holy,
holy, holy, is the Lord of Spirits: He filleth the earth with spirits.”’
13. And here my eyes saw all those who sleep not: they stand before Him
and bless and say: ‘Blessed be Thou, and blessed be the name of the Lord
for ever and ever.’ 14. And my face was changed; for I could no longer
behold.