Ancient texts / 1 Enoch (The Book of Enoch)
1 Enoch (The Book of Enoch) Chapter LXV
1After this he showed me the angels of punishment, who were prepared to come, and to open all the mighty waters under the earth:
2That they may be for judgment, and for the destruction of all those who remain and dwell upon the earth.
3And the Lord of spirits commanded the angels who went forth, not to take up the men and preserve them.
4For those angels presided over all the mighty waters. Then I went out from the presence of Enoch.
Chapter and verse numbers follow Laurence's 1821 edition and differ in places from R. H. Charles's and other modern translations.