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And I saw after these things, and lo! twelve rivers were ascending from the sea, and they began to surround that lightning and to become subject to it.
For what am I amongst men, Or why am I reckoned amongst those who are more excellent than I, That I have heard all these marvelous things from the Most High, And numberless promises from Him who created me?
And when I was pondering on these things and the like, lo! the angel Ramiel who presides over true visions was sent to me, and he said unto me:
And if you have heard tidings of the good and evil things which are then coming and are grieved, What (wilt you be) when you shall behold what the majesty will reveal, Which shall convict these and cause those to rejoice.'
What therefore can be blacker or darker than these things?
And from these black (waters) again were black derived, and the darkness of darkness was produced.
These are the black first waters.
And after these (waters) you did see bright waters: this is the fount of Abraham, also his generations and advent of his son, and of his son's son, and of those like them.
These are the bright waters, which you have seen.
'And the black third waters which you have seen, these are the mingling of all sins, which the nations afterwards wrought after the death of those righteous men, and the wickedness of the land of Egypt, wherein they did wickedly in the service wherewith they made their sons to serve.
Nevertheless, these also perished at last.
These are the bright fourth waters which you have seen.
These are the bright waters which you have seen.
These are the black seventh waters which you have seen.
These are the bright waters which you have seen.
'Thus, moreover, did Manasseh act impiously, and thought that in his time the Mighty One would not inquire into these things.
These are the black ninth waters which you have seen.
[And the festivals and the Sabbaths he established in their sanctity], and their polluted ones he burnt in the fire, and the lying prophets which deceived the people, these also he burnt in the fire, and the people who listened to them when they were living, he cast them into the brook Kidron, and heaped stones upon them.
For on his account and on account of those who are like him were the honorable glories, of which you were told before, created and prepared. These arc the bright waters which you have seen.
Dost you think that in these things the Most High rejoices, Or that His name is glorified?
Yet after these things shall the dispersed among the Gentiles be taken hold of by tribulation, And in shame shall they dwell in every place.
But he also shall fall at last. These are the black waters.
For after these things time will come when your people shall fall into distress, so that they shall all run the risk of perishing together.
But it will come to pass after these things that there will be the fall of many nations.
These are the bright waters which you have seen.
[And it shall come to pass that whoever of the victors and the vanquished gets safe out of and escapes all these things aforesaid will be delivered into the hands of My servant Messiah.]
For I have come to tell you these things, because your prayer has been heard with the Most High.
'Hear now also regarding the bright lightning which is to come at the consummation after these black (waters): this is the word.
These things therefore shall come upon the nations which are to be spared by Him.
And judgments, and abusive talk, and contentions, and revenges, And blood, and passions, and envy, and hatred, And whatsoever things are like these shall go into condemnation when they are removed.
For it is these very things which have filled this world with evils, And on account of these the life of man has been greatly troubled.
For it is these very things which have filled this world with evils, And on account of these the life of man has been greatly troubled.
And He answered and said unto me: ['Inasmuch as the revelation of this vision has been interpreted to you as you requested], hear the word of the Most High that you may know what is to befall you after these things.
Now this shall befall after forty days. Go now therefore during these days and instruct the people so far as you are able, that they may learn so as not to die at the last time, but may learn in order that they may live at the last times.'
And I wrote these two epistles: one I sent by an eagle to the nine and a half tribes; and the other I sent to those that were at Babylon by means of three men.
And I called the eagle and spoke these words unto it:
These are the words of that epistle which Baruch the son of Neriah sent to the nine and a half tribes, which were across the river Euphrates, in which these things were written.
These are the words of that epistle which Baruch the son of Neriah sent to the nine and a half tribes, which were across the river Euphrates, in which these things were written.
For if you so do these things, He will continually remember you, He who always promised on our behalf to those who were more excellent than we, that He will never forget or forsake us, but with much mercy will gather together again those who were dispersed.
And when they had done these things, they delivered thereupon to the enemy the overthrown wall, and the plundered house, and the burnt temple, and the people who were overcome because they were delivered up, lest the enemy should boast and say: 'Thus by force have we been able to lay waste even the house of the Most High in war.'
'How long will these things endure for us? And will these evils come upon us always?'
'How long will these things endure for us? And will these evils come upon us always?'
Let none therefore of these present things ascend into your hearts, but above all let us be expectant, because that which is promised to us shall come.
For that which exists now or which has passed away, or which is to come, in all these things, neither is the evil fully evil, nor again the good fully good.
[Since therefore all these things are done now, does anyone think that they will not be avenged? But the consummation of all things will come to the truth.]
Behold! I have therefore made known unto you (these things) whilst I live: for I have said (it) that you should learn the things that are excellent; for the Mighty One hath commanded me to instruct you: and I will set before you some of the commandments of His judgment before I die.
Because they had defiled themselves with unnatural intercourse. I am pained in my bowels and my inward parts for these things.
He fills one (house) with lawlessness, And (then) his eyes (are fixed) upon the next house, To destroy it with words that give wing to (desire). (Yet) with all these his soul, like Sheol, is not sated.
And they have not remembered God, Nor feared God in all these things;
They committed adultery, every man with his neighbor's wife. They concluded covenants with one another with an oath touching these things;
They trode the altar of the Lord, (coming straight) from all manner of uncleanness; And with menstrual blood they defiled the sacrifices, as (though these were) common flesh.
For shame is upon us and upon our faces on account of all these things.
Noisome beasts ran upon them: With their teeth they tore their flesh, And with their molars crushed their bones. But from all these things the Lord delivered us,
For terrible is the overthrow of the sinner; But not one of all these things toucheth the righteous. For not alike are the chastening of the righteous (for sins done) in ignorance, And the overthrow of the sinners
He that offereth these things shall never be shaken by evil; The flame of fire and the wrath against the unrighteous shall not touch him,
If the righteous endureth in all these (trials), he shall receive mercy from the Lord.
These by his word he made, and every thing
But even in Hades all these when they came
But when Hades received these, secondly
And after these a third strong-minded race
And from these afterward another race
Blood-stained, perverse in counsel; of men these
The people and began with words like these:
God in their breasts implanted. But even these,
For eight ones, and as many tens on these,
For all these things he'll also bring to pass.
In my whole body terror-stricken these
And then shall, after these, appear of men
This is the contest, these are the rewards;
These are the prizes; this the gate of life
Whom Assyrian shoot destroyed; and over these
And creeping things and fowls, these in a mass
Destroyed in flame, even these shall he collect
And sorceresses with them, and these wrath
Shall come, when all these things shall come to pass.
On all men? Which of these shall take the lead?
Alike of all these also I will tell
O For these are all deceptive, in so far
These things and leave the face of God the mighty?
For these things the Immortal doth enjoin
Their flesh; and when these things are brought to pass,
All these things, but obey the good decrees
Know God, the Immortal, who performs these things;
And all these things the great eternal God
Of dead men." These things souls of faithful melt
Is angry with him who in these things sins.
These things I show thee, I who madly left
Let all these truthful things remain declared.
But these things all in the tenth generation
But when these, trusting folly, shall cast off
Ah! miserable mortals, change these things,
Receive all these things with an evil ear,
And upon thy shoots shall be all these days.
Now these things unto Egypt God bade me
Why dost thou move me to declare these things,
Together fear; for when with these the course
Thou hast brought forward these unstable things;
With dumb months and dull lips. But all these things
But why does the wise mind grant me these things?
And these together shall destroy all kings