Enoch 83

1 And now, my son Methuselah, I will show you all my visions that I have seen, recounting them before you. 2 Two visions I saw before I took a wife, and the one was quite unlike the other: the first when I was learning to write; the second before I took your mother, when I saw a terrible vision.

3 And regarding them I prayed to the Lord. I had lain down in the house of my grandfather Mahalalel, when I saw in a vision how the heaven collapsed and was carried off and fell to the earth. 4 And when it fell to the earth I saw how the earth was swallowed up in a great abyss, and mountains were suspended on mountains, and hills sank down on hills, and tall trees were torn from their trunks and hurled down and sunk in the abyss. 5 And then a word fell into my mouth, and I lifted up my voice to cry aloud, and said, “The earth is destroyed.”

6 And my grandfather Mahalalel woke me as I lay near him, and said to me, “Why do you cry out like this, my son, and why do you make such a lament?” 7 And I recounted to him the whole vision that I had seen, and he said to me, “You have seen a terrible thing, my son, and your dream-vision is of grave importance concerning the secrets of all the sin of the earth: it must sink into the abyss and be destroyed with a great destruction. [a] 8 And now, my son, get up and make petition to the Lord of glory, since you are a believer, that a remnant may remain on the earth, and that he may not destroy the whole earth. 9 My son, from heaven all this will come upon the earth, and on the earth there will be great destruction.”

10 After that I got up and prayed and implored and begged, and wrote down my prayer for the generations of the world, and I will show everything to you, my son Methuselah. 11 And when I had gone out below and seen the heaven, and the sun rising in the east, and the moon setting in the west, and a few stars, and the whole earth, and everything as he had known it in the beginning, then I blessed the Lord of judgment and praised him, because he had made the sun go out from the windows of the east, and it ascended and rose on the face of the heaven, and set out and kept traveling the path shown to it. [b]