Unit 12

for

37 occurrences in 22 verses

2 Nephi 6:2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17,

2 Nephi 7:1, 7, 9,

2 Nephi 8:2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 19, 24

2 Nephi 6:2

Behold, my beloved brethren,

I, Jacob, having been called of God,

and ordained after the manner of his holy order,

and having been consecrated by my brother Nephi,

unto whom ye look as a king or a protector,

and on whom ye depend for safety,

behold ye know that I have spoken unto you exceedingly many things.

2 Nephi 6:3

Nevertheless, I speak unto you again;

for I am desirous for the welfare of your souls.

Yea, mine anxiety is great for you;

and ye yourselves know that it ever has been.

for I have exhorted you with all diligence;

and I have taught you the words of my father;

and I have spoken unto you concerning all things

which are written, from the creation of the world.

2 Nephi 6:4

And now, behold, I would speak unto you

concerning things which are, and which are to come;

wherefore, I will read you the words of Isaiah.

And they are the words which my brother has desired

that I should speak unto you.

And I speak unto you for your sakes,

that ye may learn and glorify the name of your God.

2 Nephi 6:5

And now, the words which I shall read are they

which Isaiah spake concerning all the house of Israel;

wherefore, they may be likened unto you,

for ye are of the house of Israel.

And there are many things which have been spoken by Isaiah

which may be likened unto you,

because ye are of the house of Israel.

2 Nephi 6:7

And kings shall be thy nursing fathers,

and their queens thy nursing mothers;

they shall bow down to thee with their faces towards the earth,

and lick up the dust of thy feet;

and thou shalt know that I am the Lord;

for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.

2 Nephi 6:8

And now I, Jacob, would speak somewhat concerning these words.

for behold, the Lord has shown me

that those who were at Jerusalem, from whence we came,

have been slain and carried away captive.

2 Nephi 6:11

Wherefore, after they are driven to and fro,

for thus saith the angel,

many shall be afflicted in the flesh,

and shall not be suffered to perish, because of the prayers of the faithful;

they shall be scattered, and smitten, and hated;

nevertheless, the Lord will be merciful unto them,

that when they shall come to the knowledge of their Redeemer,

they shall be gathered together again to the lands of their inheritance.

2 Nephi 6:12

And blessed are the Gentiles,

they of whom the prophet has written;

for behold, if it so be that they shall repent and fight not against Zion,

and do not unite themselves to that great and abominable church,

they shall be saved;

for the Lord God will fulfil his covenants

which he has made unto his children;

and for this cause the prophet has written these things.

2 Nephi 6:13

Wherefore, they that fight against Zion and the covenant people of the Lord

shall lick up the dust of their feet;

and the people of the Lord shall not be ashamed.

for the people of the Lord are they who wait for him;

for they still wait for the coming of the Messiah.

2 Nephi 6:16

for shall the prey be taken from the mighty,

or the lawful captive delivered?

2 Nephi 6:17

But thus saith the Lord:

Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away,

and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered;

for the Mighty God shall deliver his covenant people.

for thus saith the Lord:

I will contend with them that contendeth with thee —

2 Nephi 7:1

Yea, for thus saith the Lord:

Have I put thee away, or have I cast thee off forever?

for thus saith the Lord:

Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement?

To whom have I put thee away,

or to which of my creditors have I sold you?

Yea, to whom have I sold you?

Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves,

and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

2 Nephi 7:7

for the Lord God will help me,

therefore shall I not be confounded.

Therefore have I set my face like a flint,

and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

2 Nephi 7:9

for the Lord God will help me.

And all they who shall condemn me,

behold, all they shall wax old as a garment,

and the moth shall eat them up.

2 Nephi 8:2

Look unto Abraham, your father,

and unto Sarah, she that bare you;

for I called him alone, and blessed him.

2 Nephi 8:3

for the Lord shall comfort Zion,

he will comfort all her waste places;

and he will make her wilderness like Eden,

and her desert like the garden of the Lord.

Joy and gladness shall be found therein,

thanksgiving and the voice of melody.

2 Nephi 8:4

Hearken unto me, my people;

and give ear unto me, O my nation;

for a law shall proceed from me,

and I will make my judgment to rest for a light for the people.

2 Nephi 8:6

Lift up your eyes to the heavens,

and look upon the earth beneath;

for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke,

and the earth shall wax old like a garment;

and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner.

But my salvation shall be forever,

and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

2 Nephi 8:8

for the moth shall eat them up like a garment,

and the worm shall eat them like wool.

But my righteousness shall be forever,

and my salvation from generation to generation.

2 Nephi 8:10

Art thou not he who hath dried the sea,

the waters of the great deep;

that hath made the depths of the sea a way

for the ransomed to pass over?

2 Nephi 8:19

These two sons are come unto thee,

who shall be sorry for thee —

thy desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword —

and by whom shall I comfort thee?

2 Nephi 8:24

Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion;

put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city;

for henceforth there shall no more come into thee

the uncircumcised and the unclean.