Unit 16

for

56 occurrences in 45 verses

2 Nephi 16:5, 8, 12,

2 Nephi 17:4, 6, 8, 13, 16, 18, 22, 23, 25,

2 Nephi 18:4, 10, 11, 14, 17, 18, 19,

2 Nephi 19:4, 5, 6, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 21,

2 Nephi 20:3, 4, 8, 13, 17, 22, 23, 25, 26,

2 Nephi 21:4, 9, 10, 12, 16, 22:2, 5, 6

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.

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.

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.

2 Nephi 17:4

And say unto him:

Take heed, and be quiet;

fear not, neither be faint-hearted

for the two tails of these smoking firebrands,

for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

2 Nephi 17:6

Let us go up against Judah and vex it,

and let us make a breach therein for us,

and set a king in the midst of it,

yea, the son of Tabeal.

2 Nephi 17:8

for the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus, Rezin;

and within three score and five years shall Ephraim be broken

that it be not a people.

2 Nephi 17:13

And he said:

Hear ye now, O house of David;

is it a small thing for you to weary men,

but will ye weary my God also?

2 Nephi 17:16

for before the child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good,

the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

2 Nephi 17:18

And it shall come to pass in that day

that the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of Egypt,

and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

2 Nephi 17:22

And it shall come to pass,

for the abundance of milk they shall give he shall eat butter;

for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.

2 Nephi 17:23

And it shall come to pass in that day, every place shall be,

where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings,

which shall be for briers and thorns.

2 Nephi 17:25

And all hills that shall be digged with the mattock,

there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns;

but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and the treading of lesser cattle.

2 Nephi 18:4

for behold, the child shall not have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother,

before the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria

shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

2 Nephi 18:10

Take counsel together, and it shall come to naught;

speak the word, and it shall not stand;

for God is with us.

2 Nephi 18:11

for the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand,

and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying:

2 Nephi 18:14

And he shall be for a sanctuary;

but for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel,

for a gin and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

2 Nephi 18:17

And I will wait upon the Lord,

that hideth his face from the house of Jacob,

and I will look for him.

2 Nephi 18:18

Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me

are for signs and for wonders in Israel

from the Lord of Hosts, which dwelleth in Mount Zion.

2 Nephi 18:19

And when they shall say unto you:

Seek unto them that have familiar spirits,

and unto wizards that peep and mutter —

should not a people seek unto their God

for the living to hear from the dead?

2 Nephi 19:4

for thou hast broken the yoke of his burden,

and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor.

2 Nephi 19:5

for every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood;

but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.

2 Nephi 19:6

for unto us a child is born,

unto us a son is given;

and the government shall be upon his shoulder;

and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counselor,

The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

2 Nephi 19:12

The Syrians before and the Philistines behind;

and they shall devour Israel with open mouth.

for all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

2 Nephi 19:13

for the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them,

neither do they seek the Lord of Hosts.

2 Nephi 19:16

for the leaders of this people cause them to err;

and they that are led of them are destroyed.

2 Nephi 19:17

Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men,

neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows;

for every one of them is a hypocrite and an evildoer,

and every mouth speaketh folly.

for all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

2 Nephi 19:18

for wickedness burneth as the fire;

it shall devour the briers and thorns,

and shall kindle in the thickets of the forests,

and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

2 Nephi 19:21

Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh;

they together shall be against Judah.

for all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

2 Nephi 20:3

And what will ye do in the day of visitation,

and in the desolation which shall come from far?

to whom will ye flee for help?

and where will ye leave your glory?

2 Nephi 20:4

Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners,

and they shall fall under the slain.

for all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

2 Nephi 20:8

for he saith:

Are not my princes altogether kings?

2 Nephi 20:13

for he saith:

By the strength of my hand and by my wisdom

I have done these things;

for I am prudent;

and I have moved the borders of the people, and have robbed their treasures,

and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man;

2 Nephi 20:17

And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame,

and shall burn and shall devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

2 Nephi 20:22

for though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea,

yet a remnant of them shall return;

the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

2 Nephi 20:23

for the Lord God of Hosts shall make a consumption,

even determined in all the land.

2 Nephi 20:25

for yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease,

and mine anger in their destruction.

2 Nephi 20:26

And the Lord of Hosts shall stir up a scourge for him

according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb;

and as his rod was upon the sea

so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.

2 Nephi 21:4

But with righteousness shall he judge the poor,

and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth;

and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth,

and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

2 Nephi 21:9

They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,

for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord,

as the waters cover the sea.

2 Nephi 21:10

And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse,

which shall stand for an ensign of the people;

to it shall the Gentiles seek; and his rest shall be glorious.

2 Nephi 21:12

And he shall set up an ensign for the nations,

and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel,

and gather together the dispersed of Judah

from the four corners of the earth.

2 Nephi 21:16

And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people

which shall be left, from Assyria,

like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

2 Nephi 21:22