I gathered you as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings. But what will I do with you? I will throw you out of my presence.

Gather the old and the young within your walls. Watch over your infants. Let your servants and employees rejoice, and your whole community will have good morale.

He said to me: “Count for me those who haven’t yet been born, gather for me the scattered raindrops, make the withered flowers bloom again for me,

He said to me: “In the beginning of the earthly world— before the world’s exits were made, before the gathered winds blew,

“On the third day you commanded the waters to be gathered together in a seventh part of the earth, but you made six parts dry and preserved them so that some of these might be sown and cultivated, to be of service before you.

“On the fifth day you commanded the seventh part where the water was gathered to produce animals, birds, and fish.

You separated them from each other, for the seventh part where the water was gathered couldn’t contain them.

The fourth order—understanding the peaceful rest that they now enjoy, gathered in their resting chambers, guarded by angels in deep silence, and understanding the glory that awaits them in their last days.

He said to me: “They will be free for seven days so that they may see in those seven days the things that have been foretold. After this, they will be gathered in their dwelling places.”

As I looked, it spread its wings over the whole earth, and all the winds of heaven blew toward it, and the clouds gathered around it.

Then he left me. When the whole people heard that seven days had passed and I hadn’t returned to the city, they all gathered, from the smallest to the biggest. They came and said to me,

After this I looked and I saw that all who had gathered to do battle against him were sorely afraid, yet they dared to fight.

An innumerable mob will be gathered together, as you saw, wanting to come and fight against him.

The Most High will once again stop the flow of the river so that they can cross. These people make up the multitude gathered in peace,

Then when he begins to destroy the multitude of the nations that are gathered, he will protect the people who have survived.

He replied to me: “Go, gather the people and say to them that they shouldn’t seek you for forty days.

Gather up many writing tablets, and take with you Sarea, Dabria, Selemia, Ethanus, and Asiel, these five, who are trained to write fast.

I did as he commanded me. I gathered all the people and said,

Grapes will ripen, but who will gather them? There will be vast, empty wastelands.

Foreigners will gather their fruits, plunder their wealth, knock down their houses, and take their children captive, for in captivity and hunger they will produce their offspring.