2 BARUCH 83
83:1 For YAHWEH the Most High will surely hasten HIS times, and HE will certainly cause HIS periods to arrive.
83:2 And HE will surely judge those who are in HIS world, and will truly inquire into everything with regard to all their works which were sins.
83:3 HE will certainly investigate the secret thoughts and everything which is lying in the inner chambers of all their members which are in sin. And HE will make them manifest in the presence of everyone with blame.
83:4 Therefore, nothing of the present things should come into your heart, but they should, on the contrary, be expected, since that which was promised will come.
83:5 And we should not look upon the delights of the present nations, but let us think about that which has been promised to us regarding the end.
83:6 For the ends of the times and the periods will surely pass away and all which is in them together.
83:7 The end of the world will then show the great power of YAHWEH our Ruler since everything will come to judgment.
83:8 You should, therefore, prepare your hearts for that which you have believed before, lest you should be excluded from both worlds, namely, that you were carried away into captivity here and tormented there.
83:9 For that which exists now or that which has passed away or that which will come, in all of that, neither the evil in it is fully evil, nor the tov is even fully tov.
83:10 For all sorts of health which exist now changes into illnesses.
83:11 And every might which exists now changes into weakness, and every power that exists now changes into miseries, and every youthful energy changes into old age and consummation.
83:12 And every beauty of elegances which exists now changes into withering and ugliness.
83:13 And every infantile pride which exists now changes into lowliness and shame. And every boast of haughtiness which exists now changes into the shame of silence.
83:14 And every delight and all splendor which exists now changes into ruin of silence.
83:15 And every joy and every delight which exist now change into rejection and ruin.
83:16 And every clamor of pride changes into silent dust.
83:17 And every possession of richness which exists now changes into the realm of death alone.
83:18 And every seizing desire which exists now changes into involuntary death, and every desire of lust! changes into the judgment of punishment.
83:19 And every capability of deceit which exists now changes into refutation by truth.
83:20 And every sweetness of ointments which exists now changes into judgment and condemnation.
83:21 And every friendship changes into silent defamations.
83:22 Since all these things happened now, do you think that they will not be avenged?
83:23 But the end of everything will come to Light.