LXXXIII. 1. And now, my son Methuselah, I will show thee all my visions
which I have seen, recounting them before thee. 2. Two visions I saw
before I took a wife, and the one was quite unlike the other: the first
when I was learning to write, the second before I took thy mother,
(when) I saw a terrible vision. And regarding them I prayed to the Lord.
3. I had laid me down in the house of my grandfather Mahalalel, (when) I
saw in a vision how the heaven collapsed and was borne off and fell to
the earth. 4. And when it fell to the earth I saw how the earth was
swallowed up in a great abyss, and mountains were suspended on
mountains, and hills sank down on hills, and high trees were rent from
their stems, and hurled down and sunk in the abyss. 5. And thereupon a
word fell into my mouth, and I lifted up (my voice) to cry aloud, and
said: ‘The earth is destroyed.’ 6. And my grandfather Mahalalel waked me
as I lay near him, and said unto me: ‘Why dost thou cry so, my son, and
why dost thou make such lamentation?’ 7. And I recounted to him the
whole vision which I had seen, and he said unto me: ‘A terrible thing
hast thou seen, my son, and of grave moment is thy dream-vision as to
the secrets of all the sin of the earth: it must sink into the abyss and
be destroyed with a great destruction. 8. And now, my son, arise and
make petition to the Lord of glory, since thou art a believer, that a
remnant may remain on the earth, and that He may not destroy the whole
earth. 9. My son, from heaven all this will come upon the earth, and
upon the earth there will be great destruction.’ 10. After that I arose
and prayed and implored and besought, and wrote down my prayer for the
generations of the world, and I will show everything to thee, my son
Methuselah. 11. And when I had gone forth below and seen the heaven, and
the sun rising in the east, and the moon setting in the west, and a few
stars, and the whole earth, and everything as †He had known† it in the
beginning, then I blessed the Lord of judgement and extolled Him because
He had made the sun to go forth from the windows of the east, †and he
ascended and rose on the face of the heaven, and set out and kept
traversing the path shown unto him.
LXXXIV. 1. And I lifted up my hands in righteousness and blessed the
Holy and Great One, and spake with the breath of my mouth, and with the
tongue of flesh, which God has made for the children of the flesh of
men, that they should speak therewith, and He gave them breath and a
tongue and a mouth that they should speak therewith:
2. ‘Blessed be Thou, O Lord, King,
Great and mighty in Thy greatness,
Lord of the whole creation of the heaven,
King of kings and God of the whole world.
And Thy power and kingship and greatness abide for ever and ever,
And throughout all generations Thy dominion:
And all the heavens are Thy throne for ever,
And the whole earth Thy footstool for ever and ever.
3. For Thou hast made and Thou rulest all things,
And nothing is too hard for Thee,
Wisdom departs not =from the place of Thy throne=,
=Nor turns away= from Thy presence.
And Thou knowest and seest and hearest everything,
And there is nothing hidden from Thee [for Thou seest everything].
4. And now the angels of Thy heavens are guilty of trespass,
And upon the flesh of men abideth Thy wrath until the great day of
judgement.
5. And now, O God and Lord and Great King,
I implore and beseech Thee to fulfil my prayer,
To leave me a posterity on earth,
And not to destroy all the flesh of man,
And make the earth without inhabitant,
So that there should be an eternal destruction.
6. And now, my Lord, destroy from the earth the flesh which has
aroused Thy wrath,
But the flesh of righteousness and uprightness establish as a plant
of the eternal seed,
And hide not Thy face from the prayer of Thy servant, O Lord.’
LXXXV-XC. _The Second Dream-Vision of Enoch: the History of the World to
the Founding of the Messianic Kingdom._
LXXXV. 1. And after this I saw another dream, and I will show the whole
dream to thee, my son. 2. And Enoch lifted up (his voice) and spake to
his son Methuselah: ‘To thee, my son, will I speak: hear my
words—incline thine ear to the dream-vision of thy father. 3. Before I
took thy mother Edna, I saw in a vision on my bed, and behold a bull
came forth from the earth, and that bull was white; and after it came
forth a heifer, and along with this (latter) came forth two bulls, one
of them black and the other red. 4. And that black bull gored the red
one and pursued him over the earth, and thereupon I could no longer see
that red bull. 5. But that black bull grew and that heifer went with
him, and I saw that many oxen proceeded from him which resembled and
followed him. 6. And that cow, that first one, went from the presence of
that first bull in order to seek that red one, but found him not, and
lamented with a great lamentation over him and sought him. 7. And I
looked till that first bull came to her and quieted her, and from that
time onward she cried no more. 8. And after that she bore another white
bull, and after him she bore many bulls and black cows.
9. And I saw in my sleep that white bull likewise grow and become a
great white bull, and from him proceeded many white bulls, and they
resembled him. 10. And they began to beget many white bulls, which
resembled them, one following the other, (even) many.