83 HANOCH - ENOCH 83
Vision of the Deluge
Book Four. –
83:1 Now, my son Methuselah, I will show you all the visions which I saw, recounting them before you.
83:2 I saw two visions before I got married; and neither one of them resembles the other: The first one I saw when I was beginning to learn books, and the second, before I got married to your mother. First, I saw a scary vision regarding which I prayed to YAHWEH.
83:3 I was then sleeping in my grandfather Mahalalel's house, and I saw in a vision the sky being hurled down and snatched and falling upon the earth.
83:4 When it fell upon the earth, I saw the earth being swallowed up into the great abyss, the mountains being suspended upon mountains, the hills sinking down upon the hills, and tall trees being uprooted and thrown and sinking into the deep abyss.
83:5 Thereupon a word fell into my mouth; and I began crying aloud, saying, “The earth is being destroyed.”
83:6 Then my grandfather, Mahalalel, woke me up while I was sleeping together with him and said to me, “What happened to you that you are crying aloud like this, my son, and why are you lamenting in this manner?”
83:7 And I recounted to him the whole vision which I had seen. And he said unto me, “How terrifying a thing have you seen, my son! You have seen in your dream a powerful vision -all the sins of the whole world as it was sinking into the abyss and being destroyed with great destruction.”
83:8 “Now, my son, rise and pray to YAHWEH of splendor, for you are a man of faith, so that a remnant shall remain upon the earth and that the whole earth shall not be blotted out.”.
83:9 My son, all the things upon the earth shall take place from heaven; and there will occur a great destruction upon the earth.
83:10 After that, I rose and prayed, made a petition, and begged; and I wrote down all the prayers of the generations of the world. I will show you everything, my son, Methuselah.
83:11 Had I descended underneath and seen the sky, the sun rising in the east, the moon descending in the west, the diminishing of the stars, and the whole earth, I would have recognized everything upon her. So I blessed YAHWEH of judgment and extolled HIM. For HE has made the sun to come out from the windows of the east; so it ascended and rose upon the face of the sky, starting to go the way that it was shown.