Chapter 99. [Disobedient to rulers, enemies of their military]

1. Then I saw many more souls of wicked man and woman; (2) and they ever suffer terrible, fearful, hurtful, harmful, painful, dark, hellish torment and punishment of various kinds. 3. Then I saw souls whose tongues were scraped with a wooden peg; (4) and they ever went down, into hell, head foremost; (5) and the demons ever ploughed their whose bodies with an iron comb. 6. And I asked thus: 'Whose souls are these? (7) and what sin was committed by them whose souls suffer so severe a punishment?' 8. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (9) thus: 'These are the souls of those wicked who have been disobedient unto their rulers in the world, (10) and have been enemies of the armies and troops of their rulers.

(11) Now they must here suffer such severe pain and torment and punishment.'