ḤANOḴ 99

1 Woe to you who work wickedness, and exult in lying and exalt them! You shall perish, and no baruḵ ḥai shall be yours.

2 Woe to them who pervert the Words of uprightness, and transgress the eternal Law, and transform themselves into what they were not – into sinners! They shall be trodden under foot upon the earth.

3 In those days prepare, you righteous, to raise your prayers as a remembrance, and place them as a witness before the messengers, that they may place the sin of the sinners for a remembrance before the Most High.

4 In those days the nations shall be stirred up, and the clans of the nations shall rise on the day of destruction.

5 And in those days the destitute shall go forth and carry off their children, and they shall abandon them, so that their children shall perish through them. Also they shall abandon their nursing infants, and not return to them, and shall have no pity on their beloved ones.

6 And again I swear to you, you sinners, that sin is prepared for a day of unceasing bloodshed.

7 And they who worship stones, and graven images of gold and silver and wood and clay, and those who worship impure spirits and demons, and all kinds of idols not according to knowledge, shall get no manner of help from them.

8 And they shall become wicked because of the wickedness of their hearts, and their eyes shall be blinded through the fear of their hearts and through visions in their dreams.

9 Through these they shall become wicked and fearful; for they shall have wrought all their work in a lie, and shall have worshipped a stone. Therefore in an instant shall they perish.

10 But in those days baruḵ are all they who accept the Words of wisdom, and understand them, and observe the Ways of the Most High, and walk in the path of His righteousness, and do not become wicked with the unrighteous; for they shall be saved.

11 Woe to you who spread evil to your neighbors; for you shall be slain in Gĕy-Hinnom.

12 Woe to you who make deceitful and false measures, and who cause bitterness on the earth! For thereby they shall be utterly consumed.

13 Woe to you who build your houses through the grievous toil of others, and all their building materials are the bricks and stones of sin! I tell you: you shall have no peace.

14 Woe to them who reject the measure and eternal heritage of their fathers and whose beings follow after idols! For they shall have no rest.

15 Woe to them who work unrighteousness and help oppression, and slay their neighbors until the Day of the great judgment!

16 For He shall cast down your esteem, and bring affliction on your hearts, and shall arouse His fierce indignation and destroy you all with the sword; and all the qodesh and righteous shall remember your sins.