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    "name": "Book V — Epistle of Enoch (with Appendix)"
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    "slug": "90-chapter-xcix",
    "title": "Chapter XCIX — False Worship and Idolatry",
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    "text": "## Chapter XCIX\n\n\nXCIX. *Woes pronounced on the Godless, the Lawbreakers: evil Plight of Sinners in the last Days: further Woes*.\n\n#### CHAPTER XCIX.\n\n1. Woe to you who work godlessness,\n\nAnd glory in lying and extol them:\n\nYe shall perish, and no happy life shall be yours.\n\n2. Woe to them who pervert the words of uprightness,\n\nAnd transgress the eternal law,\n\nAnd transform themselves into what they were not [into sinners]:\n\nThey shall be trodden under foot upon the earth.\n\n3. In those days make ready, ye righteous, to raise your prayers as **a** memorial,\n\nAnd place them as a testimony before the angels,\n\nThat they may place the sin of the sinners for a memorial before the Most High.\n\n4. In those days the nations shall be stirred up,\n\nAnd the families of the nations shall arise on the day of destruction.\n\n5. And in those days the destitute shall go forth and carry off their children,\n\nAnd they shall abandon them, so that their children shall perish through them:\n\nYea, they shall abandon their children (that are still) sucklings, and not return to them,\n\nAnd shall have no pity on their beloved ones.\n\n6. And again I swear to you, ye sinners, that sin is prepared for a day of unceasing bloodshed. 7. And they who worship stones, and grave images of gold\n\n\nand silver and wood 〈and stone〉 and clay, and those who worship impure spirits and demons, and all kinds of idols not according to knowledge, shall get no manner of help from them.\n\n8. And they shall become godless by reason of the folly of their hearts,\n\nAnd their eyes shall be blinded through the fear of their hearts\n\nAnd through visions in their dreams.\n\n9. Through these they shall become godless and fearful;\n\nFor they shall have wrought all their work in a lie,\n\nAnd shall have worshiped a stone:\n\nTherefore in an instant shall they perish.\n\n10. But in those days blessed are all they who accept the words of wisdom, and understand them,\n\nAnd observe the paths of the Most High, and walk in the path of His righteousness,\n\nAnd become not godless with the godless;\n\nFor they shall be saved.\n\n11. Woe to you who spread evil to your neighbours;\n\nFor you shall be slain in Sheol.\n\n12. Woe to you who make deceitful and false measures,\n\nAnd (to them) who cause bitterness on the earth;\n\nFor they shall thereby be utterly consumed.\n\n13. Woe to you who build your houses through the grievous toil of others,\n\nAnd all their building materials are the bricks and stones of sin;\n\nI tell you ye shall have no peace.\n\n14. Woe to them who reject the measure and eternal heritage of their fathers\n\nAnd whose souls follow after idols;\n\nFor they shall have no rest.\n\n15. Woe to them who work unrighteousness and help oppression, p. 143\n\nAnd slay their neighbours until the day of the great judgement.\n\n16. For He shall cast down your glory,\n\nAnd bring affliction on your hearts,\n\nAnd shall arouse **His fierce indignation**,\n\nAnd destroy you all with the sword;\n\nAnd all the holy and righteous shall remember your sins.",
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