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13 They are like wild waves of the sea, churning up the foam of their shameful deeds. They are like wandering stars, doomed forever to blackest darkness.

14 Enoch, who lived in the seventh generation after Adam, prophesied about these people. He said, “Listen! The Lord is coming with countless thousands of his holy ones 15 to execute judgment on the people of the world. He will convict every person of all the ungodly things they have done and for all the insults that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”[a]

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  1. 14-15 The quotation comes from intertestamental literature: Enoch 1:9.

13 They are wild waves of the sea,(A) foaming up their shame;(B) wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.(C)

14 Enoch,(D) the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: “See, the Lord is coming(E) with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones(F) 15 to judge(G) everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”[a](H)

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  1. Jude 1:15 From the Jewish First Book of Enoch (approximately the first century b.c.)