CHAPTER 50
1 They leave not nor depart day or night standing before the face of the Lord, working His will, cherubim and seraphim, standing round His throne. And the six-winged creatures overshadow all His throne, singing with a soft voice before the face of the Lord: ‘Holy, Holy, Holy: Lord God of Sabaoth! heaven and earth are full of Thy glory!’
2 When I had seen all these things, these men said unto me: ‘Enoch, up to this time we have been ordered to accompany thee.’ And those men departed from me, and I saw them no more. And I remained alone at the extremity of the heaven, and was afraid, and fell on my face, and said within myself: ‘Woe is me! what has come upon me!’
3 And the Lord sent one of His glorious archangels, Gabriel, and he said to me: ‘Be of good cheer, Enoch, be not afraid, stand up, come with me, and stand up before the face of the Lord for ever.
4 And I answered him, and said: ‘Oh! Lord, my spirit has departed from me with fear and trembling! call to me the men who have brought me to this place: upon them I have relied, and with them I would go before the face of the Lord.’
5 And Gabriel hurried me away like a leaf carried off by the wind, and he took me and set me before the face of the Lord.