2 Baruch 52

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.

1And I answered and said: "How do those who forget those for whom woe is then reserved?

2And why therefore do we again mourn for those who die? or why do we weep for those who depart to Sheol?

3Let lamentations be reserved for the beginning of that coming torment, and let tears be laid up for the advent of the destruction of that time.

4But even in the face of these things I will speak.

5[And as for the righteous, what will they do now?

6Rejoice ye in the suffering which ye now suffer: for why do ye look for the decline of your enemies?

7Make ready your soul for that which is reserved for you, and prepare your souls for the reward which is laid up for you."]

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.