Unit 12

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31 occurrences in 19 verses

2 Nephi 6:4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14,

2 Nephi 7:1, 2, 4, 6,

2 Nephi 8:1, 4, 6, 8, 10, 13, 18, 23

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 6:6

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 6:9

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 6:11

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 6:14

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 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 7:4

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 7:6

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 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 8:4

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 8:13

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 8:18

And none to guide her among all the sons she hath brought forth;

neither that taketh her by the hand, of all the sons she hath brought up.

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.