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Six immense mountains of iron, copper, silver, gold, soft metal, and lead melt before a distant radiant presence.
ANCIENT JEWISH LITERATURE · R. H. CHARLES

1 ENOCH 52

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CHAPTER VISUAL

Enoch 52 — Six metal mountains lose their power before the Elect One when the day of judgment arrives.

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The artwork follows the six materials actually enumerated in the chapter despite the heading’s seven-mountain wording; the Elect One remains a distant silhouette.

Passage basis: 1 Enoch 52:1–9
Ancient Jewish literatureIncluded for historical and biblical study; not part of the Protestant biblical canon.
  1. 1And after those days in that place where I had seen all the visions of that which is hidden—for I had been carried off in a whirlwind and they had borne me towards the west—
  2. 2There mine eyes saw all the secret things of heaven that shall be, a mountain of iron, and a mountain of copper, and a mountain of silver, and a mountain of gold, and a mountain of soft metal, and a mountain of lead.
  3. 3And I asked the angel who went with me, saying, ‘What things are these which I have seen in secret?’
  4. 4And he said unto me: ‘All these things which thou hast seen shall serve the dominion of His Anointed that he may be potent and mighty on the earth.’
  5. 5And that angel of peace answered, saying unto me: ‘Wait a little and there shall be revealed unto thee all the secret things, which surround the Lord of Spirits.
  6. 6And these mountains which thine eyes have seen, The mountain of iron, and the mountain of copper, and the mountain of silver, And the mountain of gold, and the mountain of soft metal, and the mountain of lead, All these shall be in the presence of the Elect One, As wax before the fire, And like the water which streams down from above [upon those mountains], And they shall become powerless before his feet.
  7. 7And it shall come to pass in those days that none shall be saved, Either by gold or by silver, And none be able to escape.
  8. 8And there shall be no iron for war, Nor shall one clothe oneself with a breastplate. Bronze shall be of no service, And tin [shall be of no service and] shall not be esteemed, And lead shall not be desired.
  9. 9And all these things shall be [denied and] destroyed from the surface of the earth, When the Elect One shall appear before the face of the Lord of Spirits.’

R. H. Charles translation (1912) · Reprinted 1917 · Public domain in the United States · Editorial brackets and uncertainty markers preserved · Source edition