Unit 17

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78 occurrences in 37 verses

2 Nephi 23:5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22,

2 Nephi 24:1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32

2 Nephi 23:5

They come from a far country, from the end of heaven,

yea, the Lord, and the weapons of his indignation,

to destroy the whole land.

2 Nephi 23:8

and they shall be afraid;

pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them;

they shall be amazed one at another;

their faces shall be as flames.

2 Nephi 23:9

Behold, the day of the Lord cometh,

cruel both with wrath and fierce anger,

to lay the land desolate;

and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

2 Nephi 23:10

For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light;

the sun shall be darkened in his going forth,

and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

2 Nephi 23:11

and I will punish the world for evil, and the wicked for their iniquity;

I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease,

and will lay down the haughtiness of the terrible.

2 Nephi 23:13

Therefore, I will shake the heavens,

and the earth shall remove out of her place,

in the wrath of the Lord of Hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

2 Nephi 23:14

and it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up;

and they shall every man turn to his own people,

and flee every one into his own land.

2 Nephi 23:15

Every one that is proud shall be thrust through;

yea, and every one that is joined to the wicked shall fall by the sword.

2 Nephi 23:16

Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes;

their houses shall be spoiled and their wives ravished.

2 Nephi 23:17

Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them,

which shall not regard silver and gold,

nor shall they delight in it.

2 Nephi 23:18

Their bows shall also dash the young men to pieces;

and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb;

their eyes shall not spare children.

2 Nephi 23:19

and Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency,

shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

2 Nephi 23:21

But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there;

and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures;

and owls shall dwell there,

and satyrs shall dance there.

2 Nephi 23:22

and the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses,

and dragons in their pleasant palaces;

and her time is near to come,

and her day shall not be prolonged.

For I will destroy her speedily;

yea, for I will be merciful unto my people,

but the wicked shall perish.

2 Nephi 24:1

For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob,

and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land;

and the strangers shall be joined with them,

and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

2 Nephi 24:2

and the people shall take them and bring them to their place;

yea, from far unto the ends of the earth;

and they shall return to their lands of promise.

and the house of Israel shall possess them,

and the land of the Lord shall be for servants and handmaids;

and they shall take them captives unto whom they were captives;

and they shall rule over their oppressors.

2 Nephi 24:3

and it shall come to pass in that day

that the Lord shall give thee rest, from thy sorrow, and from thy fear,

and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve.

2 Nephi 24:4

and it shall come to pass in that day,

that thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say:

How hath the oppressor ceased,

the golden city ceased!

2 Nephi 24:6

He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke,

he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.

2 Nephi 24:7

The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet;

they break forth into singing.

2 Nephi 24:8

Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee,

and also the cedars of Lebanon, saying:

Since thou art laid down

no feller is come up against us.

2 Nephi 24:10

All they shall speak and say unto thee:

Art thou also become weak as we?

Art thou become like unto us?

2 Nephi 24:11

Thy pomp is brought down to the grave;

the noise of thy viols is not heard;

the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

2 Nephi 24:16

They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee,

and shall consider thee, and shall say:

Is this the man that made the earth to tremble,

that did shake kingdoms?

2 Nephi 24:17

and made the world as a wilderness,

and destroyed the cities thereof,

and opened not the house of his prisoners?

2 Nephi 24:19

But thou art cast out of thy grave

like an abominable branch,

and the remnant of those that are slain,

thrust through with a sword,

that go down to the stones of the pit;

as a carcass trodden under feet.

2 Nephi 24:20

Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial,

because thou hast destroyed thy land and slain thy people;

the seed of evil-doers shall never be renowned.

2 Nephi 24:22

For I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of Hosts,

and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant,

and son, and nephew, saith the Lord.

2 Nephi 24:23

I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water;

and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of Hosts.

2 Nephi 24:24

The Lord of Hosts hath sworn, saying:

Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass;

and as I have purposed, so shall it stand —

2 Nephi 24:25

That I will bring the Assyrian in my land,

and upon my mountains tread him under foot;

then shall his yoke depart from off them,

and his burden depart from off their shoulders.

2 Nephi 24:26

This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth;

and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all nations.

2 Nephi 24:27

For the Lord of Hosts hath purposed,

and who shall disannul?

and his hand is stretched out,

and who shall turn it back?

2 Nephi 24:29

Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina,

because the rod of him that smote thee is broken;

for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice,

and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

2 Nephi 24:30

and the firstborn of the poor shall feed,

and the needy shall lie down in safety;

and I will kill thy root with famine,

and he shall slay thy remnant.

2 Nephi 24:31

Howl, O gate; cry, O city;

thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved;

for there shall come from the north a smoke,

and none shall be alone in his appointed times.

2 Nephi 24:32

What shall then answer the messengers of the nations?

That the Lord hath founded Zion,

and the poor of his people shall trust in it.