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The Book of Enoch · 84 of 109

Chapter LXXXIV

1.And I lifted up my hands in righteousness and blessed the Holy and Great One, and spake with the breath of my mouth, and with the tongue of flesh, which God has made for the children of the flesh of men, that they should speak therewith, and He gave them breath and a tongue and a mouth that they should speak therewith:

2.‘Blessed be Thou, O Lord, King,

Great and mighty in Thy greatness,

Lord of the whole creation of the heaven,

King of kings and God of the whole world.

And Thy power and kingship and greatness abide for ever and ever,

And throughout all generations Thy dominion;

And all the heavens are Thy throne for ever,

And the whole earth Thy footstool for ever and ever.

3.For Thou hast made and Thou rulest all things,

And nothing is too hard for Thee,

Wisdom departs not from the place of Thy throne,

Nor turns away from Thy presence.

And Thou knowest and seest and hearest everything,

And there is nothing hidden from Thee for Thou seest everything.

4.And now the angels of Thy heavens are guilty of trespass,

And upon the flesh of men abideth Thy wrath until the great day of judgement.

5.And now, O God and Lord and Great King,

I implore and beseech Thee to fulfil my prayer,

To leave me a posterity on earth,

And not destroy all the flesh of man,

And make the earth without inhabitant,

So that there should be an eternal destruction.

6.And now, my Lord, destroy from the earth the flesh which has aroused Thy wrath,

But the flesh of righteousness and uprightness establish as a plant of the eternal seed,

And hide not Thy face from the prayer of Thy servant, O Lord.’

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Why does Enoch pray for both punishment and preservation in this chapter?

Enoch praises God’s greatness and then names a present guilt: “the angels of Thy heavens are guilty of trespass,” and God’s wrath “abideth” on human flesh until judgment. He asks God to “destroy from the earth the flesh which has aroused Thy wrath” while pleading that God “establish as a plant of the eternal seed” the righteous—so his prayer asks for purge and continuation together.

This chapter frames destruction as selective cleansing and preservation as divine planting: judgment removes corrupt life, and God is asked to spare a remnant so righteousness can continue. That double plea echoes Genesis’s covenantal survivals and recalls Noah’s sparing in Genesis and the remnant theme in Isaiah.

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