Gospel Of Essenes Book 3 - Pt 7 Of 7

The Essene Gospel of Peace Book 3 Part 7 The Final Part This one is called Lament.

Out of the depths have I cried unto thee,

O Lord.

Lord hear my voice,

Hear my prayer,

O Lord,

And let my cry come unto thee.

Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble.

Bring thine ear unto me in the day when I call,

Answer me speedily.

For my days are consumed like smoke,

And my bones are burned as a half.

My heart is smitten and withered like grass,

So that I forget to eat my bread.

By reason of the voice of my groaning,

My bones cleave to my skin.

I am like a pelican of the wilderness.

I am like an owl of the desert.

I watch and aim as a sparrow alone upon the housetop.

My days are like a shadow that declineeth,

And I am withered like grass.

O my God,

Take me not away in the midst of my days.

The heavens are the work of thy hands,

And they shall perish or thou shalt endure.

The first step taken,

By the soul of the wicked man,

Laid him in the evil thought hell.

The second step,

Taken by the soul of the wicked man,

Laid him in the evil word hell.

The third step taken by the soul of the wicked man,

Laid him in the evil deed hell.

The fourth step taken by the soul of the wicked man,

Laid him in endless darkness.

I know that thou canst do all things,

And that no purpose of thine can be restrained.

Now mine eye seeth thee,

Wherefore I uphold myself,

And repent in dust and ashes.

For the wicked sons of men have sinned against themselves,

And their hell of evil thoughts,

Evil words,

And evil deeds is a hell of their own making.

And my anguish and my bitter tears Are for our ancient fathers,

Who sinned against the Creator and were banished From the holy kingdom of the great trees.

Wherefore I weep and hide my face in sorrow For the beauty of the lost garden,

And the vanished sweetness of the song of the bird Who sang in the branches of the tree of life.

Have mercy upon me,

O God,

And cleanse me from my sin.

The joys of our hearts is ceased.

Our dance is turned into mourning.

The crown is fallen from our head.

Woe unto us that we have sinned.

For this our heart is faint.

For these things our eyes are dim.

Thou,

O heavenly Father,

Remainest forever.

A throne from generation to generation.

Wherefore dost thou forget us forever,

And forsake us for so long time?

Turn thou us unto thee,

O Lord.

Renew our days as of old,

Where there is no righteousness or compassion.

Where wild beasts of the desert shall die,

And their houses shall be full of doleful creatures.

And the owls shall dwell there,

And set ears shall dance there,

And the wild beasts shall cry in their desolate houses.

Wash me,

O Lord,

And I shall be whiter than snow.

Make me to hear joy and gladness.

Hide thy face from my sins,

And blot out all mine inequities.

Create in me a clean heart,

O God,

And renew a right spirit within me.

Cast me not away from thy presence,

And take not thy Holy Spirit from me.

Restore unto me the joy of thy infinite garden,

And uphold me with thy holy angels.

Let me drive away all evil things and all uncleanness,

From the fire,

The water,

The earth,

The trees,

From the faithful man and the faithful woman,

From the stars,

The moon,

The sun,

From the boundless light,

And from all good things made by thee,

O Heavenly Father,

Whose offspring is the holy law.

By the rivers of Babylon,

There we sat down,

Yea,

We wept,

When we remembered Zion.

We hanged our harps on the willows.

O,

Shall we sing the Lord's song in a wicked land?

If I forget thee,

O Jerusalem,

Let my right hand forget her cunning.

If I do not remember thee,

Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.

For Babylon is the slavery of the world,

And Zion is the freedom in the brotherhood.

O Lord,

To thee will I cry.

For the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness,

And the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.

The beasts of the field cry also unto thee,

For the rivers of waters are dried up,

And the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

Let all inhabitants of the land tremble,

For the day of the Lord cometh,

For it is nigh at hand,

A day of darkness and gloominess,

A day of clouds and of thick darkness,

A day when the earth shall quake And the heavens shall tremble,

The sun and the moon shall be dark,

And the stars shall withdraw their shining.

Out of the depths will we cry unto thee,

O Lord.

Lord,

Hear thou our voices.

This one is called Prophecies.

Harken unto me,

My people,

And give ear unto me.

Lift up thine eyes to the heavens,

And look upon the earth beneath,

For the heavens shall vanish away like smoke,

And the earth shall wax old like a garment,

And they that dwell therein shall die in like manner.

But my kingdom shall be for ever,

And my law shall not be abolished.

And in that day hell shall enlarge herself,

And open her mouth without measure,

And the glory,

The pride,

And the pomp of the wicked shall descend into it.

And the mean man shall be brought down,

And the mighty man shall be humbled,

As the fire devoureth the stubble,

And the flame consumeth the chafe.

For their roots shall be as rottenness,

And their blossom shall go up as dust,

Because they have cast away the holy law of the heavenly order,

And despised the word of the children of light.

And in that day one will look unto the land,

And behold only darkness and sorrow,

And the light in the heavens shall be darkened.

The leaders of the people shall cause them to err,

And they that are led of them shall be destroyed,

For every one is a hypocrite and an evildoer.

And every mouth speaketh folly,

Wickedness burneth as the fire,

It shall devour the briars and the thorns,

It shall kindle in the thickets of the forest,

And shall mount up like the lifting up of the smoke.

Through the wrath of the law shall the land be darkened,

For this hath man wrought upon himself,

And the people shall be as the fuel of the fire,

No man shall spare his brother.

Woe unto them that have kept not the holy law,

Woe unto the crown of pride,

Woe unto those who lust after things of the world,

And corrupt themselves with wrongdoing,

Who err in vision and stumble in judgment,

For they are a rebellious people,

A lying people,

People who will not hear the law of the Lord,

Which say to the seers,

See not,

And to the prophets,

Prophesy not unto us right things,

But speak unto us smooth things,

Prophesy deceits.

Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees,

And that right grievousness which they have prescribed,

Woe unto them that join house to house,

That lay field to field,

Till there is no place that a man can be alone in the midst of the earth.

Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning,

Not to commune with the angels,

But to follow strong drink,

And continue until night,

Till the fumes of the wine inflame them.

Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil,

And that put darkness for light,

And light for darkness.

Woe unto them that turn aside the needy from judgment,

That take away the right from the poor,

That make of widows their prey and rob the fatherless.

Wherefore it shall come to pass,

That the hand of the Lord shall lop the bow with the judgment of the law,

And the high ones of stature shall be hewn down,

And the haughty shall be humbled.

Howl ye for the day of the law is at hand,

It shall come as a destruction from the Almighty,

Wherefore shall all hands be faint,

And every man's heart shall melt,

And they shall be afraid.

Pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them,

They shall be in pain as a woman that was treveleth,

They shall be amazed one at another,

Their faces shall be as flames.

Behold the day of the Lord cometh,

Cruel both in wrath and fierce anger,

To lay the land desolate,

And he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

It shall come to pass in that day,

That the Lord shall punish the host of the high ones,

And the kings of the earth upon the earth,

And they shall be gathered together,

As prisoners are gathered in the pit,

And shall be shut up in the prison.

And the Lord shall come forth out of his place,

And will come down and tread upon the highest places of the earth,

And the mountains shall be molten under him.

And the Lord shall comes forth out of his place,

And will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth,

And the mountains shall be molten under him,

And the valleys shall be cleft as wax before the fire,

As the waters pour down a steep place.

Then the moon shall vanish and the sun be obscured,

And the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof Shall not give their light.

The sun shall be darkened in its going forth,

And the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

And the Lord will shake the heavens,

And the earth shall remove out of her place In the day of the wrath of the law,

In the day of the fierce anger of the Lord.

And the shining cities shall be laid waste,

And the wild beasts of the desert shall lie there.

The hay shall wither away,

The grass shall fail,

And in all the earth there shall be no green thing.

In that day shall the strong cities be as a forsaken bough,

And a tempest of hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies.

And the angry waters shall overflow the hiding place of the wicked,

And there shall be upon every high mountain,

And upon every high hill,

Rivers and streams of water.

In the day of the great slaughter,

When the towers fall,

In that day shall the light of the moon be as the light of the sun,

And the light of the sun shall be sevenfold.

Behold,

The name of the law cometh from far,

Burning with hot anger,

And the burden thereof is heavy.

The lips of the Lord are full of indignation,

And his tongue is as a devouring fire.

He shall show the strength of his arm,

With the flame of consuming of fire,

With scattering and tempest and hailstones.

The land shall be utterly emptied and utterly spoiled,

For the sons of men have turned away from the law.

The city of confusion is broken down,

Every house is shut up,

That no man may come in.

There is a crying and wailing in the streets,

All joy has darkened.

The myrrh of the land is gone,

And it shall come to pass,

That he who fleeth from the noise of the fear,

Shall fall into the pit.

And he that come up out of the midst of the pit,

Shall be taken in the snare.

For the windows from one high are open,

And the foundations of the earth do shake.

The earth is utterly broken down,

The earth is clean dissolved,

The earth is moved exceedingly.

Then the moon shall be confounded,

The sun shall be ashamed.

And the earth shall reel to and fro like a drunken,

And shall fall,

And shall not rise again.

And all the hosts of heaven shall be dissolved,

And the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll,

And all their hosts shall fall down,

As the leaf falleth off from the vine,

As a falling fig from the fig tree.

The waters shall fail from the sea,

And the rivers shall be wasted and dried up.

The streams of water shall be turned into pitch,

And the earth shall be cast thereof into brimstone.

And the land thereof shall become burning pitch,

And the smoke shall not be quenched by night or day,

And no man shall pass through it.

But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess the land.

The ocean shall dwell in it,

And there shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion,

And the stones of emptiness.

They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom,

But none shall there be.

And all her princes shall be nothing,

And thorns shall come up in her palaces,

And bles and brambles in the fortresses thereof.

And it shall be an habitation of dragons,

And a court for owls.

The ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly,

And the highways shall lie waste.

The glory of the forest shall be consumed,

And the fruitful field,

Be so few that a child may count them.

Behold,

The day shall come that all that is in the earth and all that which thy fathers have laid up in store shall be carried up in smoke.

For ye have forgotten thy heavenly father and thy earthly mother,

And ye have broken the holy law.

O,

That thou wouldst rend the heavens,

That thou wouldst come down,

That the mountains might flow down in thy presence.

When thy hand shewed forth the power of thy law,

Thou camest down in fury.

The mountains flowed down at thy presence,

And the melting fires burned.

Behold,

Thou art wrath,

For we have sinned.

We are like the troubled sea when it cannot rest,

Whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

We trust in vanity and speak lies.

Our feet run to evil.

Wasting and destruction are in our paths.

We grope for the wall like the blind.

We stumble at noon,

Day as in the night.

We are in desolate places as dead men.

But now,

O heavenly father,

Thou art our father.

We are the clay and thou our potter.

And we are all thy people.

Thy holy cities are a wilderness.

Thy forests are consumed.

All thy earth is a desolation.

Our holy and beautiful house,

Where our fathers praised thee,

Is burned up with fire.

Even the ancient lore of our father Enoch is trampled in the dust and ashes.

And I beheld the earth,

And lo,

It was without form and void.

And the heavens,

And they had no light.

I beheld the mountains,

And lo,

They trembled.

And all the hills,

And all the hills moved lightly.

I beheld,

And lo,

There was no man.

And all the birds of the heavens I beheld.

And lo,

The fruitful place was a wilderness.

And all the cities thereof were broken down,

At the presence of the Lord and by his fierce anger.

And all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord and by his fierce anger.

For thus hath the Lord said,

The whole land shall be desolate.

Yet will I not make a full end.

And,

Behold,

The hand of the lore is not shortened that it cannot save.

Neither is the ear of the lore heavy that it cannot hear.

From out of the desert shall I bring forth the seed.

And the seed shall be planted in the garden of the brotherhood,

And it shall flourish.

And the children of light shall cover the barren land with tall grass and trees and bearing fruit.

And they shall build the old waste places.

They shall repair the waste cities,

The desolations of many generations.

They shall be called the repairers of the breach and the restorers of paths to dwell in.

They shall be a crown of glory on the head of the Lord and a royal diadem in the hand of the lore.

The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them.

And the desert shall rejoice and blossom as a rose.

It shall blossom abundantly and rejoice even with joy and singing.

The eyes of the blind shall be opened and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

Then shall the lame man leap as a heart and the tongue of the dumb shall sing.

For in the wilderness shall waters break out and flow like a river.

And the water shall flow like a river.

And the water shall flow like a river.

For in the wilderness shall waters break out and flowing streams in the desert.

And the parched ground shall become a pool.

And the thirsty land springs of water.

And a highway shall be there and away and it shall be called the way of the lore.

The unclean shall not pass over it.

But it shall be for the children of light to cross over the eternal river unto the hidden place where standeth the tree of life.

And the children of men shall return to the earth and come unto the infinite garden with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads.

They shall obtain joy and gladness and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

And it shall come to pass in the last days that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills.

And all the sons of men of the earth shall flow unto it.

And many people shall go and say,

Come ye and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,

To the tabernacle of the holy lore.

And the holy angels will teach us of the ways of the Lord and the ways of the earth and the heavenly father and the earthly mother.

And we will walk in the paths of the righteous.

For out of the garden of the brotherhood shall go forth the lore and the word of the Lord from the children of light.

And the Lord shall come and make the earth and the earth and the children of light.

And the Lord shall judge among the nations and shall rebuke many people.

And they shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks.

Nation shall not lift up sword against nation.

Neither shall they learn war any more.

Hear the voices of the brothers which cry aloud in the wilderness,

Prepare ye the way of the lore.

Make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

Every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill shall be made low.

And the Lord shall come and make the road straight and every mountain and hill shall be made low.

And the crooked shall be made straight and the rough places plain.

And the voice of the heavenly father shall be heard.

I,

Even I,

Am the lore and beside me there is no other.

Yea,

Before the day was,

I am he.

And there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

Harken unto me,

O children of light,

I am he,

I am the first,

I also am the last.

Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth.

And my right hand hath spanned the heavens.

Harken unto me,

O children of light,

Ye that know righteousness.

My children in whose hearts is my lore.

Ye shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace.

The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you in singing.

And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

Arise,

Shine,

O children of light.

For my light is come upon thee and thou shalt make the glory of the lore to rise upon the new earth.

And thou shalt make the glory of the lore to rise upon the new earth.