Chanuk (Enoch) — 103

1 But now I swear to you righteous, by the greatness of 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH’s splendor and his Kabad; by 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH’s illustrious Kingdom and by his majesty, to you I swear, that I comprehend this mystery; that I have read the tablet of Shamaym, have seen the writing of the Qadash ones, and have discovered what is written and impressed on it concerning you.

2 That all goodness, joy, and Kabad has been prepared for you, and been written down for the ruachuth of them who die eminently righteous and good. To you it shall be given in return for your troubles; and your portion shall far exceed the portion of the living. The ruachuth of you who die in righteousness shall exist and rejoice.

3 Their ruachuth shall exult; and their remembrance shall be before the face of 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH from generation to generation. Nor shall they now fear shame.

4 Woe to you, sinners, when you die in your sins; and they, who are like you, will be respecting you: Baraked are these sinners. They have lived out their whole period; and now they die in happiness and in wealth. Distress and slaughter they knew not while alive; in honor they die; nor ever in their lifetime did judgment overtake them.

5 Has it not been shown to them, that, to the receptacle of the dead their souls shall be made to descend, their evil deeds shall become their greatest torment? Into darkness, into the snare, and into the flame, which shall burn to the great judgment, shall their souls enter; and the great judgment shall take effect forever and ever.

6 Woe to you; for to you there shall be no Shalum. Neither can you say to the righteous, and to the good who are alive, In the days of our trouble have we been afflicted; every trouble have we seen, and many evil things have suffered.

7 Our ruachuth have been consumed, lessened, and diminished.

8 We have perished; nor has there been a possibility of help for us in words or in deed: we have found none but have been tormented and destroyed.

9 We have not expected to live day after day.

10 We hoped indeed to have been the head;

11 We hoped to be the head and have become the tail: We have toiled laboriously and had no satisfaction in our toil; And we have become the food of the sinners and the unrighteous, And they have laid their yoke heavily upon us.

12 They have had dominion over us that hated us and smote us; And to those that hated us we have bowed our necks But they pitied us not.

13 We desired to get away from them that we might escape and be at rest, But found no place whereunto we should flee and be safe from them.

14 And are complained to the rulers in our tribulation, And cried out against those who devoured us, But they did not attend to our cries And would not hearken to our voice.

15 And they helped those who robbed us and devoured us and those who made us few; and they concealed their oppression, and they did not remove from us the yoke of those that devoured us and dispersed us and murdered us, and they concealed their murder, and remembered not that they had lifted up their hands against us.

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Chanuk (Enoch) — 103

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