Unit 12

I

50 occurrences in 26 verses

2 Nephi 6:2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 17, 18,

2 Nephi 7:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,

2 Nephi 8:2, 4, 7, 12, 15, 16, 19, 22, 23

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 6:6

And now, these are the words:

Thus saith the Lord God:

Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles,

and set up my standard to the people;

and they shall bring thy sons in their arms,

and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.

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 6:17

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 6:18

And I will feed them that oppress thee, with their own flesh;

and they shall be drunken with their own blood as with sweet wine;

and all flesh shall know that

I the Lord am thy Savior and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

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 7:2

Wherefore, when I came, there was no man;

when I called, yea, there was none to answer.

O house of Israel, is my hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem,

or have I no power to deliver?

Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea,

I make their rivers a wilderness and their fish to stink

because the waters are dried up, and they die because of thirst.

2 Nephi 7:3

I clothe the heavens with blackness,

and I make sackcloth their covering.

2 Nephi 7:4

The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned,

that I should know how to speak a word in season

unto thee, O house of Israel. When ye are weary

he waketh morning by morning.

He waketh mine ear to hear as the learned.

2 Nephi 7:5

The Lord God hath opened mine ear,

and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.

2 Nephi 7:6

I gave my back to the smiter,

and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair.

I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

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 7:8

And the Lord is near, and he justifieth me.

Who will contend with me?

Let us stand together.

Who is mine adversary?

Let him come near me,

and I will smite him with the strength of my mouth.

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 8:4

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 8:7

Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness,

the people in whose heart I have written my law,

fear ye not the reproach of men,

neither be ye afraid of their revilings.

2 Nephi 8:12

I am he; yea, I am he that comforteth you.

Behold, who art thou, that thou shouldst be afraid of man, who shall die,

and of the son of man, who shall be made like unto grass?

2 Nephi 8:15

But I am the Lord thy God, whose waves roared;

the Lord of Hosts is my name.

2 Nephi 8:16

And I have put my words in thy mouth,

and have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand,

that I may plant the heavens and lay the foundations of the earth,

and say unto Zion: Behold, thou art my people.

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 8:22

Thus saith thy Lord, the Lord

and thy God pleadeth the cause of his people;

behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling,

the dregs of the cup of my fury;

thou shalt no more drink it again.

2 Nephi 8:23

But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee;

who have said to thy soul:

Bow down, that we may go over —

and thou hast laid thy body as the ground and as the street

to them that went over.