Unit 15

they

25 occurrences in 20 verses



2 Nephi 12:4, 6, 8, 13, 19,

2 Nephi 13:9, 10, 11, 12, 16,

2 Nephi 14:3,

2 Nephi 15:6, 8, 11, 12, 13, 24, 26, 29, 30



2 Nephi 12:4

And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people:

and they shall beat their swords into plow-shares,

and their spears into pruning-hooks —

nation shall not lift up sword against nation,

neither shall they learn war any more.



2 Nephi 12:6

Therefore, O Lord, thou hast forsaken thy people, the house of Jacob,

because they be replenished from the east,

and hearken unto soothsayers like the Philistines,

and they please themselves in the children of strangers.



2 Nephi 12:8

Their land is also full of idols;

they worship the work of their own hands,

that which their own fingers have made.



2 Nephi 12:13

Yea, and the day of the Lord shall come upon all the cedars of Lebanon,

for they are high and lifted up;

and upon all the oaks of Bashan;



2 Nephi 12:19

And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth,

for the fear of the Lord shall come upon them

and the glory of his majesty shall smite them,

when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.



2 Nephi 13:9

The show of their countenance doth witness against them,

and doth declare their sin to be even as Sodom,

and they cannot hide it.

Wo unto their souls, for they have rewarded evil unto themselves!



2 Nephi 13:10

Say unto the righteous that it is well with them;

for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.



2 Nephi 13:11

Wo unto the wicked, for they shall perish;

for the reward of their hands shall be upon them!



2 Nephi 13:12

And my people, children are their oppressors,

and women rule over them.

O my people, they who lead thee cause thee to err

and destroy the way of thy paths.



2 Nephi 13:16

Moreover, the Lord saith:

Because the daughters of Zion are haughty,

and walk with stretched-forth necks and wanton eyes,

walking and mincing as they go,

and making a tinkling with their feet —



2 Nephi 14:3

And it shall come to pass,

they that are left in Zion and remain in Jerusalem shall be called holy,

every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem —



2 Nephi 15:6

And I will lay it waste;

it shall not be pruned nor digged;

but there shall come up briers and thorns;

I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.



2 Nephi 15:8

Wo unto them that join house to house, till there can be no place,

that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!



2 Nephi 15:11

Wo unto them that rise up early in the morning,

that they may follow strong drink,

that continue until night, and wine inflame them!



2 Nephi 15:12

And the harp, and the viol,

the tabret, and pipe, and wine are in their feasts;

but they regard not the work of the Lord,

neither consider the operation of his hands.



2 Nephi 15:13

Therefore, my people are gone into captivity,

because they have no knowledge;

and their honorable men are famished,

and their multitude dried up with thirst.



2 Nephi 15:24

Therefore, as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff,

their root shall be rottenness, and their blossoms shall go up as dust;

because they have cast away the law of the Lord of Hosts,

and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.



2 Nephi 15:26

And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far,

and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth;

and behold, they shall come with speed swiftly;

none shall be weary nor stumble among them.



2 Nephi 15:29

they shall roar like young lions;

yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey,

and shall carry away safe, and none shall deliver.



2 Nephi 15:30

And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea;

and if they look unto the land, behold, darkness and sorrow,

and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.