1 On account of these visions, therefore, Beliar was angry with Isaiah, and he lived in the heart of Manasseh and he sawed him in two with a wooden saw. 2 And when Isaiah was being sawn in two, Belchira stood up, accusing him, and all the false prophets stood up, laughing and rejoicing because of Isaiah. 3 And Belchira, with the aid of Mechembechus, stood up before Isaiah, laughing deriding; 4 And Belchira said to Isaiah: Say, I have lied in all that I have spoken, and likewise the ways of Manasseh are good and right. 5 And the ways also of Belchira and of his associates are good. 6 And this he said to him when he began to be sawn in two. 7 But Isaiah was absorbed in a vision of the Lord, and though his eyes were open, he did not see them. 8 And Belchira spoke thus to Isaiah: Say what I say to you and I will turn their hearts, and I will compel Manasseh and the princes of Judah and the people and all Jerusalem to revere you. 9 And Isaiah answered and said: So far as I have utterance I say: Damned and cursed be you and all your powers and all your house. 10 For you cannot take from me anything except the skin of my body. 11 And they seized and sawed Isaiah, the son of Amoz, in two with a wooden saw.⁠a 12 And Manasseh and Belchira and the false prophets and the princes and the people and all stood looking on. 13 And to the prophets who were with him he said before he had been sawn in two: Go you to the region of Tyre and Sidon; for only for me has God mixed the cup. 14 And when Isaiah was being sawn in two, he neither cried aloud nor wept, but his lips spoke with the Holy Spirit until he was cut in half. 15 This, Beliar did to Isaiah through Belchira and Manasseh; for Sammael was very wrathful against Isaiah from the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, on account of the things which he had seen regarding the Beloved. 16 And on account of the destruction of Sammael, which he had seen through the Lord, while Hezekiah his father was still king. And he did according to the will of Satan.