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015 - Chapters 91-97 · Book of Enoch

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  Speaker 1: Section fifteen of the Book of Enoch, translated by Robert
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  Speaker 1: Henry Charles. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Chapters ninety one through ninety seven, the concluding section of
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  Speaker 1: the book, chapters ninety two through one hundred and five,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter ninety two and ninety one, Verses one through ten,
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  Speaker 1: and verses eighteen through nineteen. Enoch's Book of Admonition for
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  Speaker 1: his Children, Chapter ninety two, the book written by Enoch.
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  Speaker 1: Enoch indeed wrote this complete doctrine of wisdom, which is
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  Speaker 1: praised of all men and a judge of all the earth,
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  Speaker 1: for all my children who shall dwell on the earth,
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  Speaker 1: and for the future generations who shall observe uprightness and peace.
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  Speaker 1: Let not your spirit be troubled on account of the times.
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  Speaker 1: For the Holy and Great One has appointed days for
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  Speaker 1: all things, and the righteous One shall arise from sleep,
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  Speaker 1: shall arise and walk in the paths of righteousness, and
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  Speaker 1: all his path and conversation shall be in eternal goodness
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  Speaker 1: and grace. He will be gracious to the righteous and
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  Speaker 1: give him eternal uprightness, and he will give him power
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  Speaker 1: so that he shall be endowed with goodness and righteousness.
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  Speaker 1: And he shall walk in eternal light, and sin shall
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  Speaker 1: perish in darkness forever, and shall no more be seen
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  Speaker 1: from that day for evermore. Chapter ninety one, Verses one
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  Speaker 1: through eleven, and eighteen through nineteen Enoch's admonition to his
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  Speaker 1: children Chapter ninety one. And now, my son, Methuselah, call
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  Speaker 1: to me, all thy brothers, and gather together to me,
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  Speaker 1: all the sons of thy mother. For the word calls me,
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  Speaker 1: and the spirit is poured out upon me, that I
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  Speaker 1: may show you everything that shall befall you forever. And
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  Speaker 1: thereupon methusliwend and summoned to him all his brothers, and
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  Speaker 1: assembled his relatives, and he spake unto all the children
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  Speaker 1: of righteousness, and said, hear, ye, sons of Enoch, all
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  Speaker 1: the words of your father, and hearken a right to
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  Speaker 1: the voice of my mouth. For I exhort you and
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  Speaker 1: say unto you, beloved, love uprightness, and walk therein, and
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  Speaker 1: draw not nigh to uprightness with a double heart, and
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  Speaker 1: associate not with those of a double heart, but walk
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  Speaker 1: in righteousness, my sons, and it shall guide you on
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  Speaker 1: good paths, and righteousness shall be your companion. For I
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  Speaker 1: know that violence must increase on the earth, and a
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  Speaker 1: great chastisement be executed on the earth, and all unrighteousness
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  Speaker 1: come to an end. Yea, it shall be cut off
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  Speaker 1: from its roots, and its whole structure be destroyed, and
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  Speaker 1: unrighteousness shall again be consummated on the earth, and all
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  Speaker 1: the deeds of unrighteousness and of violence and transgression shall
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  Speaker 1: prevail in a twofold degree. And when sin and unrighteousness,
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  Speaker 1: and blasphemy and violence in all kinds of deeds increase,
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  Speaker 1: and apostasy and transgression and uncleanness increase, a great chastisement
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  Speaker 1: shall come from Heaven upon all these, and the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Lord will come forth with wrath and chastisement to execute
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  Speaker 1: judgment on earth. In those days, violence shall be cut
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  Speaker 1: off from its roots, and the roots of unrighteousness together
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  Speaker 1: with deceit, and they shall be destroyed from under heaven.
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  Speaker 1: And all the idols of the Heathen shall be abandoned,
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  Speaker 1: and the temples burned with fire, and they shall remove
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  Speaker 1: them from the whole earth. And they i e. The
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  Speaker 1: Heathen shall be cast into the judgment of fire and
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  Speaker 1: shall perish in wrath and in grievous judgment forever. And
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  Speaker 1: the Righteous shall arise from their sleep, and wisdom shall
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  Speaker 1: arise and be given unto them. And after that the
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  Speaker 1: roots of unrighteousness shall be cut off, and the sinners
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  Speaker 1: shall be destroyed by the sword, shall be cut off
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  Speaker 1: from the blasphemers in every place, and those who plan
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  Speaker 1: violence and those who commit blasphemy shall perish by the sword.
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  Speaker 1: And now I tell you, my sons, and show you
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  Speaker 1: the paths of righteousness and the paths of violence. Yea,
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  Speaker 1: I will show them to you again, that you may
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  Speaker 1: know what will come to pass. And now hearken unto me,
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  Speaker 1: my sons, and walk in the paths of righteousness, and
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  Speaker 1: walk not in the paths of violence, for all who
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  Speaker 1: walk in the paths of unrighteousness shall perish forever. Chapter
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  Speaker 1: ninety three, Chapter ninety one, twelve through seventeen, The Apocalypse
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  Speaker 1: of weeks Chapter ninety three. And after that Enoch both
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  Speaker 1: gave and began to recount from the books. And Enoch said,
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  Speaker 1: concerning the children of righteousness, and concerning the elect of
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  Speaker 1: the world, and concerning the plant of uprightness, I will
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  Speaker 1: speak these things, yea, I Enoch will declare them unto you,
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  Speaker 1: my sons, according to that which appeared to me in
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  Speaker 1: the heavenly vision, and which I have known through the
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  Speaker 1: word of the holy angels, and have learnt from the
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  Speaker 1: heavenly tablets. And Enoch began to recount from the books,
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  Speaker 1: and said, I was born the seventh in the first week,
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  Speaker 1: while judgment and righteousness still endured, And after me there
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  Speaker 1: shall arise in the second week great wickedness and deceit
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  Speaker 1: shall have sprung up, and in it there shall be
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  Speaker 1: the first end, and in it a man shall be saved.
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  Speaker 1: And after it is ended, unrighteousness shall grow up, and
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  Speaker 1: a law shall be made for the sinners. And after that,
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  Speaker 1: in the third week, at its close, a man shall
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  Speaker 1: be elected as the plant of righteous judgment, and his
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  Speaker 1: posterity shall become the plant of righteousness forevermore. And after that,
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth week, at its close, visions of the
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  Speaker 1: holy and righteous shall be seen, and a law for
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  Speaker 1: all generations, and an enclosure shall be made for them.
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  Speaker 1: And after that, in the fifth week, at its close,
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  Speaker 1: the House of Glory and Dominion shall be built forever.
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  Speaker 1: And after that in the sixth week, all who live
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  Speaker 1: in it shall be blinded, and the hearts of all
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  Speaker 1: of them shall godlessly forsake wisdom, and in it a
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  Speaker 1: man shall ascend, And at its close the House of
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  Speaker 1: Dominion shall be burnt with fire, and the whole race
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  Speaker 1: of the Chosen Brute shall be dispersed. And after that,
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  Speaker 1: in the seventh week shall an apostate generation arise, and
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  Speaker 1: many shall be its deeds, and all its steeds shall
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  Speaker 1: be apostate, and at its close shall be elected the
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  Speaker 1: elect righteous of the eternal Plant of Righteousness, to receive
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  Speaker 1: sevenfold instruction concerning all his creation. For who is there
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  Speaker 1: of all the children of men that is able to
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  Speaker 1: hear the voice of the Holy One without being troubled,
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  Speaker 1: and who can think his thoughts? And who is there
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  Speaker 1: that can behold all the works of heaven? And how
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  Speaker 1: should there be one who could behold the heaven? And
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  Speaker 1: who is there that could understand the things of heaven
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  Speaker 1: and see a soul or a spirit, and could tell
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  Speaker 1: thereof or ascend and see all their ends and think
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  Speaker 1: them or do like them. And who is there of
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  Speaker 1: all men that could know what is the breadth and
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  Speaker 1: the length of the earth, and to whom has been
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  Speaker 1: shown the measure of all of them? Or is there
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  Speaker 1: anyone who could discern the length of the heaven, and
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  Speaker 1: how great is its height, and upon what it is founded?
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  Speaker 1: And how great is the number of the stars, And
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  Speaker 1: where all the luminaries rest Chapter ninety one, Verses twelve
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  Speaker 1: through seventeen. The last three weeks Chapter ninety one. And
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  Speaker 1: after that there shall be another the eighth week, that
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  Speaker 1: of righteousness, and a sword shall be given to it,
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  Speaker 1: that a righteous judgment may be executed on the oppressors,
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  Speaker 1: and sinners shall be delivered into the hands of the righteous,
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  Speaker 1: and at its close they shall acquire houses through their righteousness,
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  Speaker 1: and a house shall be built for the Great King
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  Speaker 1: and Glory forevermore, and all mankind shall look to the
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  Speaker 1: path of uprightness. And after that, in the ninth week,
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  Speaker 1: the righteous judgment shall be revealed to the whole world,
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  Speaker 1: and all the works of the godless shall vanish from
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  Speaker 1: all the earth, and the world shall be written down
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  Speaker 1: for destruction. And after this in the tenth week, in
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  Speaker 1: the seventh part, there shall be the Great eternal judgment,
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  Speaker 1: in which He will execute vengeance amongst the angels, and
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  Speaker 1: the first heaven shall depart and pass away, and a
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  Speaker 1: new heaven shall appear, and all the powers of the
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  Speaker 1: heaven shall give sevenfold light, and after that there will
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  Speaker 1: be many weeks without number forever, and all shall be
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  Speaker 1: in goodness and righteousness, and sin shall no more be
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  Speaker 1: mentioned forever. Chapter ninety four, Verses one through five admonitions
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  Speaker 1: to the righteous, Chapter ninety four. And now I say
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  Speaker 1: unto you, my sons, love righteousness, and walk therein, For
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  Speaker 1: the paths of righteousness are worthy of acceptation. But the
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  Speaker 1: paths of unrighteousness shall suddenly be destroyed and vanish. And
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  Speaker 1: to certain men of a generation shall the paths of
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  Speaker 1: violence and of death be revealed, and they shall hold
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  Speaker 1: themselves afar from them, and shall not follow them. And
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  Speaker 1: now I say unto you, the righteous, walk not in
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  Speaker 1: the paths of wickedness, nor in the paths of death,
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  Speaker 1: and draw not nigh to them, lest you be destroyed.
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  Speaker 1: But seek and choose for yourself's righteousness and an elect life,
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  Speaker 1: and walk in the paths of peace. And ye shall
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  Speaker 1: live and prosper. And hold fast my words in the
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  Speaker 1: thoughts of your hearts, and suffer them not to be
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  Speaker 1: effaced from your hearts. For I know that sinners will
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  Speaker 1: tempt men to evily entreat wisdom, so that no place
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  Speaker 1: may be found for her, and no manner of temptation
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  Speaker 1: may minish. Chapter ninety four, verses six through eleven, Woes
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  Speaker 1: for the sinners. Woe to those who build unrighteousness and
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  Speaker 1: oppression and lay deceit as a foundation, for they shall
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  Speaker 1: be suddenly overthrown, and they shall have no peace. Woe
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  Speaker 1: to those who build their houses with sin, for from
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  Speaker 1: all their foundations shall they be overthrown, and by the
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  Speaker 1: sword shall they fall. And those who acquire gold and
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  Speaker 1: silver and judgment suddenly shall perish. Woe to you, ye rich,
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  Speaker 1: for ye have trusted in your riches, and from your
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  Speaker 1: riches shall ye depart, because ye have not remembered the
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  Speaker 1: most high in the days of your riches. Ye have
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  Speaker 1: committed blasphemy and unrighteousness, and have become ready for the
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  Speaker 1: day of slaughter, and the day of darkness, and the
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  Speaker 1: day of the great judgment. Thus I speak and to
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  Speaker 1: clare unto you, He who hath created you will overthrow you,
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  Speaker 1: and for your fall there shall be no compassion, and
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  Speaker 1: your creator will rejoice at your destruction. And your righteous
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  Speaker 1: ones in those days shall be a reproach to the
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  Speaker 1: sinners and the godless. Chapter ninety five ENO's grief fresh
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  Speaker 1: woes against the sinners. Chapter ninety five. Oh that mine
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  Speaker 1: eyes were a cloud of waters, that I might weep
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  Speaker 1: over you and pour down my tears as a cloud
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  Speaker 1: of waters, that so I might rest from my trouble
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  Speaker 1: of heart? Who has permitted you to practice reproaches and wickedness,
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  Speaker 1: And so judgment shall overtake you sinners. Fear not the sinners,
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  Speaker 1: ye righteous, For again will the Lord deliver them into
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  Speaker 1: your hands, that ye may execute judgment upon them according
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  Speaker 1: to your desires. Woe to you who fulminate anathemas which
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  Speaker 1: cannot be reversed. Healing shall therefore be far from you
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  Speaker 1: because of your sins. Woe to you who requite your
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  Speaker 1: neighbor with evil, for ye shall be requited according to
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  Speaker 1: your works. Woe to you lying witnesses, and to those
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  Speaker 1: who weigh out injustice, for suddenly shall ye perish. Woe
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  Speaker 1: to you sinners, for you persecute the righteous, For ye
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  Speaker 1: shall be delivered up and persecuted because of injustice, and
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  Speaker 1: heavy shall its yoke be upon you. Chapter ninety six.
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  Speaker 1: Grounds of hopefulness for the righteous, Woes for the wicked.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter ninety six. Be hopeful, ye Righteous, for Suddenly shall
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  Speaker 1: the sinners perish before you, and ye shall have lordship
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  Speaker 1: over them according to your desires. And in the day
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  Speaker 1: of the turbulation of the sinners, your children shall mount
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  Speaker 1: and rise as eagles, and higher than the vultures will
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  Speaker 1: be your nest. And ye shall ascend and enter the
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  Speaker 1: crevices of the earth and the clefts of the rock
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  Speaker 1: forever as conies before the unrighteous, and the sirens shall
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  Speaker 1: sigh because of you and weep. Wherefore, fear not, ye
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  Speaker 1: that have suffered, for healing shall be your portion, and
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  Speaker 1: a bright light shall enlighten you, and the voice of
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  Speaker 1: rest ye shall hear from heaven. Woe unto you, ye sinners,
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  Speaker 1: for your riches make you appear like the righteous. But
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  Speaker 1: your hearts convict you of being sinners, And this fact
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  Speaker 1: shall be a testimony against you, for a memorial of
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  Speaker 1: your evil deeds. Woe to you who devour the finest
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  Speaker 1: of the wheat, and drink wine in large bowls, and
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  Speaker 1: tread under foot the lowly with your might. Woe to
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  Speaker 1: you who drink water from every fountain, For suddenly shall
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  Speaker 1: ye be consumed and wither away, because ye have forsaken
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  Speaker 1: the fountain of life. Woe to you, who work on
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  Speaker 1: righteousness and deceit and blasphemy. It shall be a memorial
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  Speaker 1: against you for evil. Woe to you, ye Mighty, who
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  Speaker 1: with might oppress the righteous, For the day of your
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  Speaker 1: destruction is coming. In those days, Many and good days
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  Speaker 1: shall come to the righteous in the day of your
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  Speaker 1: judgment Chapter ninety seven. The evils in store for sinners
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  Speaker 1: and the possessors of unrighteous wealth Chapter ninety seven. Believe, ye, Righteous,
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  Speaker 1: that the sinners will become a shame and perish in
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  Speaker 1: the day of unrighteousness. Be it known unto you, ye sinners,
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  Speaker 1: that the Most High is mindful of your destruction, and
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  Speaker 1: the angels of Heaven rejoice over your destruction. What will
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  Speaker 1: ye do, ye sinners, And whither will ye flee on
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  Speaker 1: that day of judgment? When you hear the voice of
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  Speaker 1: the prayer of the righteous, yea ye shall fair like
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  Speaker 1: unto them against whom this word shall be a testimony.
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  Speaker 1: Ye have been companions of sinners. And in those days
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  Speaker 1: the prayer of the righteous shall reach unto the Lord
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  Speaker 1: and for you. The days of your judgment shall come,
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  Speaker 1: and all the words of your unrighteousness shall be read
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  Speaker 1: out before the Great Holy One, and your faces shall
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  Speaker 1: be covered with shame, and he will reject every work
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  Speaker 1: which has grounded on unrighteousness. Woe to you, ye sinners
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  Speaker 1: who live on the mid ocean and on the dry land,
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  Speaker 1: whose remembrance is evil against you. Woe to you who
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  Speaker 1: acquire silver and gold in unrighteousness. And say, we have
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  Speaker 1: become rich with riches and half possessions, and have acquired
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  Speaker 1: everything we have desired. And now let us do what
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  Speaker 1: we proposed. For we have gathered silver, and many are
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  Speaker 1: the husbandmen in our houses, and our grainaries our brim
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  Speaker 1: full as with water, yea, and like water, your lies
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  Speaker 1: shall flow away. For your riches shall not abide, but
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  Speaker 1: speedily ascend from you, for you have acquired it all
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  Speaker 1: in unrighteousness, And ye shall be given over to a
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  Speaker 1: great curse. End of section fifteen read by CJ. Plow
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