2 BARUCH 51
51:1 And it will happen after this day which I appointed is over that both the shape of those who are found to be guilty as also the splendor of those who have proved to be righteous will be changed.
51:2 For the shape of those who now act wickedly will be made more evil than it is (now) so that they shall suffer torment.
51:3 Also, as for the honor and splendor of those who proved to be righteous on account of MY Torah, those who possessed intelligence in their life, and those who planted the root of wisdom in their heart; their honor and splendor will then be magnified by transformations, and the shape of their face will be changed into the Light of their beauty so that they may acquire and receive the undying world which is promised to them.
51:4 Therefore, especially they who will then come will be sad, because they despised MY Torah and stopped their ears lest they hear wisdom and receive intelligence.
51:5 When they, therefore, will see that those over whom they are exalted now will then be more exalted and magnified than they, then both these and those will be changed, these into the honor and splendor of malakim and those into startling visions and horrible shapes; and they will waste away even more.
51:6 For they will first see and then they will go away to be tormented.
51:7 Miracles, however, will appear at their own time to those who are saved because of their works and for whom the Torah is now a hope, and intelligence, expectation, and wisdom a trust.
51:8 For they shall see that world which is now invisible to them, and they will see a time which is now hidden to them.
51:9 And time will no longer make them older.
51:10 For they will live in the heights of that world and they will be like the malakim and be equal to the stars. And they will be changed into any shape which they wished, from beauty to loveliness, and from light to the splendor of honor.
51:11 For the extents of Kingdom Paradise will be spread out for them, and to them will be shown the beauty of the majesty of the living beings under the throne, as well as all the hosts of the malakim, those who are held by MY Word now lest they show themselves, and those who are withheld by MY command so that they may stand at their places until their coming has arrived.
51:12 And the excellence of the righteous will then be greater than that of the malakim.
51:13 For the first will receive the last, those whom they expected; and the last, those of whom they had heard that they had gone away.
51:14 For they have been saved from this world of affliction and have put down the burden of anguishes.
51:15 Because of which men lost their life and for what have those who were on the earth exchanged their soul?
51:16 For once they chose for themselves that time which cannot pass away without afflictions. And they chose for themselves that time of which the end is full of lamentations and evils. And they have denied the world that does not make those who come to it older. And they have rejected the time which causes splendor so that they are not coming to the splendor of which I spoke to you before.