Unit 12

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12 occurrences in 10 verses

2 Nephi 6:10, 13, 17,

2 Nephi 7:8, 9,

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

2 Nephi 6:10

And after they have hardened their hearts

and stiffened their necks against the Holy One of Israel,

behold, the judgments of the Holy One of Israel shall come upon them.

and the day cometh that they shall be smitten and afflicted.

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 6:17

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 7:8

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 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 8:3

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 8:6

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 8:19

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.