- 1I swear unto you, that in heaven the angels remember you for good before the glory of the Great One: and your names are written before the glory of the Great One.
- 2Be hopeful; for aforetime ye were put to shame through ill and affliction; but now ye shall shine as the lights of heaven, ye shall shine and ye shall be seen, and the portals of heaven shall be opened to you.
- 3And in your cry, cry for judgement, and it shall appear to you; for all your tribulation shall be visited on the rulers, and on all who helped those who plundered you.
- 4Be hopeful, and cast not away your hope; for ye shall have great joy as the angels of heaven.
- 5What shall ye be obliged to do? Ye shall not have to hide on the day of the great judgement and ye shall not be found as sinners, and the eternal judgement shall be far from you for all the generations of the world.
- 6And now fear not, ye righteous, when ye see the sinners growing strong and prospering in their ways: be not companions with them, but keep afar from their violence; for ye shall become companions of the hosts of heaven.
- 7And, although ye sinners say: “All our sins shall not be searched out and written down,” nevertheless they shall write down all your sins every day.
- 8And now I show unto you that light and darkness, day and night, see all your sins.
- 9Be not godless in your hearts, and lie not and alter not the words of uprightness, nor charge with lying the words of the Holy Great One, nor take account of your idols; for all your lying and all your godlessness issue not in righteousness, but in great sin.
- 10And now I know this mystery, that sinners will alter and pervert the words of righteousness in many ways, and will speak wicked words, and lie, and practise great deceits, and write books concerning their words.
- 11But when they write down truthfully all my words in their languages, and do not change or minish aught from my words, but write them all down truthfully—all that I first testified concerning them.
- 12Then, I know another mystery, that books shall be given to the righteous and the wise to become a cause of joy and uprightness and much wisdom.
- 13And to them shall the books be given, and they shall believe in them and rejoice over them, and then shall all the righteous who have learnt therefrom all the paths of uprightness be recompensed.’
ANCIENT JEWISH LITERATURE · R. H. CHARLES
1 ENOCH 104
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CHAPTER VISUAL
Enoch 104 — The afflicted will shine, every sin is witnessed, and faithfully preserved books become joy and wisdom to the righteous.
About this illustration
Sealed books and pages turned away distinguish faithful preservation from falsification without inventing heavenly text; the portals open onto unoccupied glory.
Passage basis: 1 Enoch 104:1–13Ancient Jewish literatureIncluded for historical and biblical study; not part of the Protestant biblical canon.
R. H. Charles translation (1912) · Reprinted 1917 · Public domain in the United States · Editorial brackets and uncertainty markers preserved · Source edition
Bible Connections
These links distinguish direct quotation, explicit retelling, strong literary parallel, and broader shared tradition. A parallel does not by itself prove direct dependence.
The dead are raised and separated, while the faithful shine like the lights or stars of heaven.
PROPHECY FILES
Prophecies attributed to this chapter
These Watchman 33 files cite this noncanonical chapter as an attributed ancient witness while keeping canonical Scripture distinct.
Resurrection to Life or Judgment
Daniel predicts many sleeping in the dust will awake, some to everlasting life and others to shame.