1 Enoch 65

LXV. Enoch foretells to Noah the Deluge and his own Preservation.

1And in those days Noah saw the earth that it had sunk down and its destruction was nigh.*LXV–LXIX. 25. Professedly part of a Noah Apocalypse (see liv. 7), giving here three accounts (1) lxv. l-lxvii. 3, the coming Flood and Noah's escape; (2) lxvii. 4-lxix. 1, the fallen angels' punishment, and that of the kings and the mighty; (3) lxix. 2-25, the angels' fall and the secrets they disclosed.*Note that the vision is Noah's. It opens with a sinking of the earth here as with a quaking of the heavens in lx. 1. 2And he arose from thence and went to the ends of the earth, and cried aloud to his grandfather Enoch: and Noah said three times with an embittered voice: ‘Hear me, hear me, hear me.’*i. e. where the entrance to heaven is. Cf. cvi. 8.*really great-grandfather. Cf. lx. 8. 3And I said unto him: ‘Tell me what it is that is falling out on the earth that the earth is in such evil plight and shaken, lest perchance I shall perish with it?’ 4And thereupon there was a great commotion on the earth, and a voice was heard from heaven, and I fell on my face. 5And Enoch my grandfather came and stood by me, and said unto me: ‘Why hast thou cried unto me with a bitter cry and weeping? 6And a command has gone forth from the presence of the Lord concerning those who dwell on the earth that their ruin is accomplished because they have learnt all the secrets of the angels, and all the violence of the Satans, and all their powers—the most secret ones—and all the power of those who practise sorcery, and the power of witchcraft, and the power of those who make molten images for the whole earth:*Cf. vii. 1 , viii. 3. The Deluge is due to the corruption wrought through the angels. 7And how silver is produced from the dust of the earth, and how soft metal originates in the earth. 8For lead and tin are not produced from the earth like the first: it is a fountain that produces them, and an angel stands therein, and that angel is pre-eminent.’ 9And after that my grandfather Enoch took hold of me by my hand and raised me up, and said unto me: ‘Go, for I have asked the Lord of Spirits as touching this commotion on the earth. 10And He said unto me: “Because of their unrighteousness their judgement has been determined upon and shall not be withheld by Me for ever. Because of the sorceries which they have searched out and learnt, the earth and those who dwell upon it shall be destroyed.” 11And these—they have no place of repentance for ever, because they have shown them what was hidden, and they are the damned: but as for thee, my son, the Lord of Spirits knows that thou art pure, and guiltless of this reproach concerning the secrets. 12And He has destined thy name to be among the holy, And will preserve thee amongst those who dwell on the earth, And has destined thy righteous seed both for kingship and for great honours, And from thy seed shall proceed a fountain of the righteous and holy without number for ever.’*Noah is to found a new and righteous generation.