Jude 1:14 (DBY)

Passage

And Enoch, [the] seventh from Adam, prophesied also as to these, saying, Behold, [the] Lord has come amidst his holy myriads,

Nearby Context

Jude 1:12 These are spots in your love-feasts, feasting together [with you] without fear, pasturing themselves; clouds without water, carried along by [the] winds; autumnal trees, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;

Jude 1:13 raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shames; wandering stars, to whom has been reserved the gloom of darkness for eternity.

Jude 1:14 And Enoch, [the] seventh from Adam, prophesied also as to these, saying, Behold, [the] Lord has come amidst his holy myriads,

Jude 1:15 to execute judgment against all; and to convict all the ungodly of them of all their works of ungodliness, which they have wrought ungodlily, and of all the hard [things] which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

Jude 1:16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts; and their mouth speaks swelling words, admiring persons for the sake of profit.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "enoch", "seventh", "adam", "prophesied", "saying", "behold", "lord", and "come". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "enoch" and "seventh", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 13's "raging waves of the sea foaming out..." into verse 15's "to execute judgment against all and to...", so "enoch" and "seventh" belong inside that flow. In Jude context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "enoch" and "seventh" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.