This book is part of the canon of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, but is not recognized by Protestant, Catholic, or non-Ethiopian Eastern Orthodox traditions. It is one of the three books of Meqabyan (sometimes called the 'Ethiopian Maccabees'), which are distinct from the Maccabees books found in the Septuagint and Vulgate. Although it shares the name, it has no direct relation to the Jewish Maccabean revolt. The text presents parallels with Deuteronomistic themes: sin, punishment, repentance, and restoration, along with a strong emphasis on the resurrection of the dead.
II Meqabyan
Chapter 9
"O thou weak man who aren't JAH - why are thou proud? thou who are sight up today bein a man are Earth ashes tomorrow - and thou will totally be worms in thy grave.
to thy teacher are Deeyablos who return all persons sin hardship toward him ras self because him misled I father 'Adam - and See'ol will find thee again - and she will find persons who work thy sin.
to in firmin up him collar of reasonin and makin him ras self proud - like unto him refused to bow to 'Adam whom the Creator Created...
thou also have refused to bow to thy Creator JAH like unto thy teacher Deeyablos did.
Like unto thy precedin fathers - who don't know them Creator JAH in worship - will go toward Gehannem - thou also will go toward Gehannem.
Like unto Him revenged and destroyed them because them evil Work that them worked in this world - and like unto them descended toward Gehannem...
thou also will descend toward Gehannem like unto them.
As thou have aroused Him anger - and as thou have neglected to worship JAH Who gave thee Authority on the five kingdoms - do it seem to thee that thou will escape from JAH Authority?
Thou don't do thus that thou do Him Accord - thus Him examined thee - but if thou work goodly Work in this world - JAH will accomplish all thy Work to thee-I - and Him will accomplish and bless all the Work thou seized in thy hand to thee-I - and Him will subject thy Antiquity of enemies and thy day enemies to thee-I.
Thou will be Feeling good in thy enterins and thy proceedins and in thy child birthed from thy nature - and in thy flocks and thy fatnesses - and in all Work where thou placed thy hand - and in all that thou thought in thy heart ~ as Authority have been given thee-I from alongside JAH that thou might do thus and might work and plant and demolish - all will be commanded to thee-I.
However if thou won't hear JAH Word nor live firmed up in Him LAW - like unto criminals who were precedin thee - and who don't worship JAH by what are due - and who didn't believe firmed up in HIM straight LAW - there are nothing whereby thou will escape from JAH Authority - to JAH Judgemant are Truth.
All are totally revealed before Him - yet there are nothing hidden from before Him.
Him are Who seize the kings Authority and Who overturn powerful ones thrones.
Him are Who Ilivate them who were downbased and Who lift up them who fell.
Him are Who loose them who were bound and Who arouse them who dead ~ as pardon dew are found from alongside Him - on the time Him loved Him shall arouse persons whose flesh were demolished and rotten and were like unto dust.
and havin aroused and judged persons who worked evil Work - Him will take them toward Gehannem - to them have saddened Him.
to them are who demolished JAH Order and Him LAW - and Him will destroy them child from this world.
As kind persons Work are more difficult than sinner persons Work - sinner persons don't love that them might live in kind persons counsel.
Like unto Heavens were distanced from Earth - likewise kind persons Work were distanced from evil persons Work.
But sinner persons Work are robbery and sin - adultery and iniquity - greed and perfidy Work ~ it are bein drunk in iniquity and robbin a person money.
It are quickly goin toward sheddin a person blood - and it are goin toward destruction that don't benefit - and it are makin a child weep whose mother and father dead on him ~ it are eatin blood and what dead and lodged - and it are eatin camel and boar flesh - and it are goin toward a daughter in she blood before she are cleansed - and toward a daughter in childbirth.
All this are sinner persons Work ~ she are Satan trap that were a wide and prepared path - and that take toward Gehannem that live firmed up forever - and toward See'ol.
But righteous ones path that were totally narrow are what take toward welfare - and innocence and humbleness - and Inity and Love - and prayer and fast - and flesh purity - toward keepin from what don't benefit - from eatin what a sword bloated and cut and what dead and lodged - and from goin toward a youtmon wife and from adultery.
Them keep from what weren't commanded by LAW - from eatin disgustin food and from all hated Work - and from all the Work that JAH don't love - to sinner persons do all this.
As to kind persons - them distance from all the Work that JAH don't love.
Him love them and shall keep them from all them tribulation like unto Trust money.
to them keep Him Order and Him LAW and all that Him love - but Satan rule sinner persons.