Related ancient text — scholarly reference
Extra-canonical text — not LDS scripture and not in the KJV Apocrypha. Provided as scholarly reference for parallel literature of the Second Temple period and the early Christian era. Read with discernment; the Apostle Jude quotes 1 Enoch and Paul knew this material, but inclusion here is for study, not doctrine.
1But I will say this as I think, and I will speak against thee, O land, which art prospering.
2The noonday does not always burn, nor do the rays of the sun (always) give light.
3Do not conclude or expect that thou wilt always be prosperous and rejoicing, and be not greatly uplifted and boastful.
4For assuredly in its own season wrath awake against thee, which now in long-suffering is held in as it were by reins.
5And when I had said these things, I fasted seven days.
Public-domain text (R.H. Charles 1913 and equivalents). These works are not canonical, but several were widely read in antiquity and one (1 Enoch) is quoted by name in Jude 1:14–15. Useful for understanding the doctrinal landscape from which the apostles and earliest saints taught.
