1 Enoch 57
Study resource: not ScriptureR. H. Charles translation (1917) · public domain
1And it came to pass after this that I saw another host of wagons, and men riding thereon, and coming on the winds from the east, and from the west to the south.
2And the noise of their wagons was heard, and when this turmoil took place the holy ones from heaven remarked it, and the pillars of the earth were moved from their place, and the sound thereof was heard from the one end of heaven to the other, in one day.
3And they shall all fall down and worship the Lord of Spirits. And this is the end of the second Parable.
The chapter, studied
Every Nation Falls Down: The Second Parable Ends
Enoch sees another vast company, wagons and riders coming on the winds from every direction, whose noise is heard from one end of heaven to the other and shakes the pillars of the earth. The chapter ends simply: "they shall all fall down and worship the Lord of Spirits," closing the Second Parable.
This brief chapter is a formal close, matching chapter 37's formal opening of the Parables. The image is deliberately overwhelming and cosmic, noise heard "from the one end of heaven to the other" and the "pillars of the earth" moved, before resolving into a single act of universal worship.
Where chapter 56 pictured judgment on the nations that oppose, this closing scene pictures the opposite outcome for those who submit: worship, not destruction. The Second Parable's two possible endings, the abyss for the unrepentant, worship for the rest, are placed back to back.
Doors into the 66
Teachers on this ground
R. H. Charles
The Book of Enoch (1917)
The public-domain translation this shelf reads, with the critical introduction the field still builds on.
Johnny Enlow
The Book of Enoch: Paraphrase and Commentary (2025)
A living teacher's paraphrase of the whole book with his own running commentary, from the prophetic stream.
Michael S. Heiser
A Companion to the Book of Enoch: A Reader's Commentary, Vol. II — The Parables of Enoch (2020)
The reader's commentary continued into the Son of Man visions of these chapters.
1And it came to pass after this that I saw another host of wagons, and men riding thereon, and coming on the winds from the east, and from the west to the south.
2And the noise of their wagons was heard, and when this turmoil took place the holy ones from heaven remarked it, and the pillars of the earth were moved from their place, and the sound thereof was heard from the one end of heaven to the other, in one day.
3And they shall all fall down and worship the Lord of Spirits. And this is the end of the second Parable.
The language it was written in
Aramaic (the Qumran fragments' language); parts possibly Hebrew. The Parables (chs. 37–71) have no Qumran witness and their original language is debated.
What survives, and where
Aramaic: Dead Sea Scrolls
Eleven fragmentary manuscripts from Qumran Cave 4 covering every section except the Parables (3rd c. BC – 1st c. AD).
Greek
Substantial portions: chs. 1–32 (Codex Panopolitanus), quotations in Syncellus, and the Chester Beatty papyrus of the Epistle.
Ge’ez (Ethiopic)
The only complete text, preserved by the Ethiopian church, whose canon receives the book; the base of every full translation.
What you are reading here
R. H. Charles's 1917 English translation, made from the Ge’ez against the Greek and Aramaic evidence then known — public domain, quotable in full.
No tagged word floor exists for the Aramaic or Ge’ez text; word-by-word study on this shelf awaits a future ingest. What stands here is the manuscript story itself.