11 We hoped to be the head and have become the tail: We have toiled laboriously and had no satisfaction in our toil; And we have become the food of the sinners and the unrighteous, And they have laid their yoke heavily upon us. (ENO) 12 They have had dominion over us that hated us† and smote us; And to those that hated us† we have bowed our necks But they pitied us not. (ENO) 13 We desired to get away from them that we might escape and be at rest, But found no place whereunto we should flee and be safe from them. (ENO)
Book of Enoch 103:11–13
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