1 In those days when He has brought a grievous fire upon you, where will you flee, and where will you find deliverance? And when He launches forth His Word against you, will you not be frightened and revere?
2 And all the lights shall be frightened with great fear, and all the earth shall be frightened and tremble and be alarmed.
3 And all the messengers shall execute their commands and shall seek to hide themselves from the presence of the Great Esteem, and the children of earth shall tremble and quake; and you sinners shall be cursed forever, and you shall have no peace.
4 Fear not, you beings of the righteous, and have expectancy you that have died in righteousness.
5 And do not grieve if your being has descended into the grave in grief, and that in your life your body did not fare according to your goodness. But wait for the Day of the judgment of sinners and for the day of cursing and chastisement.
6 And yet when you die, the sinners speak over you, “As we die, so the righteous die, and what benefit do they reap for their deeds?
7 “See, even as we, so they die in grief and darkness, and what have they more than we? From hereon we are equal.
8 “And what will they receive and what will they see forever? See, they too have died, and hereon, forever they shall see no light.”
9 I tell you, you sinners, you are content to eat and drink, and rob and sin, and strip men naked, and acquire wealth and see good days.
10 Have you seen the righteous how their end comes to pass, that no manner of violence is found in them till their death?
11 Nevertheless they perished and became as though they had not been, and their spirits descended into the grave in tribulation.