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Apocrypha. The Highest gave understanding unto the five men, and they wrote the wonderful visions of the night that were told, which they knew not: and they sat forty days, and they wrote in the day, and at night they ate bread.

As for me. I spake in the day, and I held not my tongue by night.

In forty days they wrote two hundred and four books.

And it came to pass, when the forty days were filled, that the Highest spake, saying, The first that thou hast written publish openly, that the worthy and unworthy may read it:

But keep the seventy last, that thou mayest deliver them only to such as be wise among the people:

For in them is the spring of understanding, the fountain of wisdom, and the stream of knowledge.

And I did so.

Behold, speak thou in the ears of my people the words of prophecy, which I will put in thy mouth, saith the Lord:

And cause them to be written in paper: for they are faithful and true.

Fear not the imaginations against thee, let not the incredulity of them trouble thee, that speak against thee.

For all the unfaithful shall die in their unfaithfulness.

Behold, saith the Lord, I will bring plagues upon the world; the sword, famine, death, and destruction.

For wickedness hath exceedingly polluted the whole earth, and their hurtful works are fulfilled.

Therefore saith the Lord,

I will hold my tongue no more as touching their wickedness, which they profanely commit, neither will I suffer them in those things, in which they wickedly exercise themselves: behold, the innocent and righteous blood crieth unto me, and the souls of the just complain continually.

And therefore, saith the Lord, I will surely avenge them, and receive unto me all the innocent blood from among them.

Behold, my people is led as a flock to the slaughter: I will not suffer them now to dwell in the land of Egypt:

But I will bring them with a mighty hand and a stretched out arm, and smite Egypt with plagues, as before, and will destroy all the land thereof.

Egypt shall mourn, and the foundation of it shall be smitten with the plague and punishment that God shall bring upon it.

They that till the ground shall mourn: for their seeds shall fail through the blasting and hail, and with a fearful constellation.

Woe to the world and them that dwell therein!

For the sword and their destruction draweth nigh, and one people shall stand up and fight against another, and swords in their hands.

For there shall be sedition among men, and invading one another; they shall not regard their kings nor princes, and the course of their actions shall stand in their power.

A man shall desire to go into a city, and shall not be able.

For because of their pride the cities shall be troubled, the houses shall be destroyed, and men shall be afraid.

A man shall have no pity upon his neighbour, but shall destroy their houses with the sword, and spoil their goods, because of the lack of bread, and for great tribulation.

Behold, saith God, I will call together all the kings of the earth to reverence me, which are from the rising of the sun, from the south, from the east, and Libanus; to turn themselves one against another, and repay the things that they have done to them.

Like as they do yet this day unto my chosen, so will I do also, and recompense in their bosom. Thus saith the Lord God;

My right hand shall not spare the sinners, and my sword shall not cease over them that shed innocent blood upon the earth.

The fire is gone forth from his wrath, and hath consumed the foundations of the earth, and the sinners, like the straw that is kindled.

Woe to them that sin, and keep not my commandments! saith the Lord.

I will not spare them: go your way, ye children, from the power, defile not my sanctuary.

For the Lord knoweth all them that sin against him, and therefore delivereth he them unto death and destruction.

For now are the plagues come upon the whole earth and ye shall remain in