Unit 12

of the

32 occurrences in 20 verses

2 Nephi 6:3, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 17,

2 Nephi 7:4,

2 Nephi 8:1, 3, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 20, 22

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 6:5

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 6:9

Nevertheless, the Lord has shown unto me

that they should return again.

And he also has shown unto me

that the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel,

should manifest himself unto them in the flesh;

and after he should manifest himself

they should scourge him and crucify him,

according to the words of the angel who spake it unto me.

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 6:11

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 6:13

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 6:14

And behold, according to the words of the prophet,

the Messiah will set himself again the second time to recover them;

wherefore, he will manifest himself unto them in power and great glory,

unto the destruction of their enemies,

when that day cometh when they shall believe in him;

and none will he destroy that believe in him.

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 7:4

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 8:1

Hearken unto me, ye that follow after righteousness.

Look unto the rock from whence ye are hewn,

and to the hole of the pit from whence ye are digged.

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 8:9

Awake, awake! Put on strength, O arm of the Lord;

awake as in the ancient days.

Art thou not he that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?

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 8:11

Therefore, the redeemed of the Lord shall return,

and come with singing unto Zion;

and everlasting joy and holiness shall be upon their heads;

and they shall obtain gladness and joy;

sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

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 8:13

And forgettest the Lord thy maker,

that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth,

and hast feared continually every day, because of the fury of the oppressor,

as if he were ready to destroy?

And where is the fury of the oppressor?

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 8:17

Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem,

which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury —

thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling wrung out —

2 Nephi 8:20

Thy sons have fainted, save these two;

they lie at the head of all the streets; as a wild bull in a net,

they are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God.

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.