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All segment titles and their associated verse designations are derived from the section headings that appear in The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, Maxwell Institute Study Edition - edited by Grant Hardy and published by the BYU Maxwell Institute. Verses are organized into sense lines that are parallel to the verse texts in The Book of Mormon: the Earliest Text - as edited by Royal Skousen and published by Yale. Audio clips are derived from Book of Mormon chapter mp3 audio recordings provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the official Church website.

Unit 16

Segment 1 of 14 [#098]

Isaiah's Commission

2 Nephi 16:1 - 2 Nephi 16:13

Duration: 2:06

contextual study / concordance

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2 Nephi 16:1

In the year that king Uzziah died,

I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up,

and his train filled the temple.

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2 Nephi 16:2

Above it stood the seraphim;

each one had six wings;

with twain he covered his face,

and with twain he covered his feet,

and with twain he did fly.

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2 Nephi 16:3

And one cried unto another, and said:

Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Hosts;

the whole earth is full of his glory.

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2 Nephi 16:4

And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried,

and the house was filled with smoke.

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2 Nephi 16:5

Then said I: Wo is unto me! for I am undone;

because I am a man of unclean lips;

and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips;

for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts.

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2 Nephi 16:6

Then flew one of the seraphim unto me,

having a live coal in his hand,

which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar;

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2 Nephi 16:7

And he laid it upon my mouth, and said:

Lo, this has touched thy lips;

and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.

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2 Nephi 16:8

Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying:

Whom shall I send,

and who will go for us?

Then I said:

Here am I; send me.

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2 Nephi 16:9

And he said:

Go and tell this people —

Hear ye indeed, but they understood not;

and see ye indeed, but they perceived not.

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2 Nephi 16:10

Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes —

lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears,

and understand with their heart, and be converted and be healed.

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2 Nephi 16:11

Then said I:

Lord, how long?

And he said:

Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant,

and the houses without man,

and the land be utterly desolate;

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2 Nephi 16:12

And the Lord have removed men far away,

for there shall be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

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2 Nephi 16:13

But yet there shall be a tenth,

and they shall return, and shall be eaten,

as a teil tree, and as an oak

whose substance is in them when they cast their leaves;

so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.


The End of Unit 16 - Segment 1

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