Unit 59

yea

26 occurrences in 20 verses



Alma 27:8, 14, 17,

Alma 28:1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 11,

Alma 29:2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17



Alma 27:8

And the king said unto him:

yea, if the Lord saith unto us go, we will go down unto our brethren,

and we will be their slaves

until we repair unto them the many murders and sins

which we have committed against them.



Alma 27:14

And they gathered together all their people,

yea, all the people of the Lord,

and did gather together all their flocks and herds,

and departed out of the land, and came into the wilderness

which divided the land of Nephi from the land of Zarahemla,

and came over near the borders of the land.



Alma 27:17

Now the joy of Ammon was so great even that he was full;

yea, he was swallowed up in the joy of his God,

even to the exhausting of his strength;

and he fell again to the earth.



Alma 28:1

And now it came to pass that

after the people of Ammon were established in the land of Jershon,

and a church also established in the land

of Jershon,

and the armies of the Nephites were set round about the land of Jershon,

yea, in all the borders round about the land of Zarahemla;

behold the armies of the Lamanites had followed their brethren into the wilderness.



Alma 28:2

And thus there was a tremendous battle;

yea, even such an one as never had been known among all the people in the land

from the time Lehi left Jerusalem;

yea, and tens of thousands of the Lamanites were slain and scattered abroad.



Alma 28:3

yea, and also there was a tremendous slaughter among the people of Nephi;

nevertheless, the Lamanites were driven and scattered,

and the people of Nephi returned again to their land.



Alma 28:5

yea, the cry of widows mourning for their husbands,

and also of fathers mourning for their sons,

and the daughter for the brother,

yea, the brother for the father;

and thus the cry of mourning was heard among all of them,

mourning for their kindred who had been slain.



Alma 28:6

And now surely this was a sorrowful day;

yea, a time of solemnity, and a time of much fasting and prayer.



Alma 28:10

And from the first year to the fifteenth has brought to pass

the destruction of many thousand lives;

yea, it has brought to pass an awful scene of bloodshed.



Alma 28:11

And the bodies of many thousands are laid low in the earth,

while the bodies of many thousands are moldering

in heaps upon the face of the earth;

yea, and many thousands are mourning for the loss of their kindred,

because they have reason to fear, according to the promises of the Lord,

that they are consigned to a state of endless wo.



Alma 29:2

yea, I would declare unto every soul, as with the voice of thunder,

repentance and the plan of redemption,

that they should repent and come unto our God,

that there might not be more sorrow upon all the face of the earth.



Alma 29:4

I ought not to harrow up in my desires, the firm decree of a just God,

for I know that he granteth unto men according to their desire,

whether it be unto death or unto life;

yea, I know that he allotteth unto men,

yea, decreeth unto them decrees which are unalterable, according to their wills,

whether they be unto salvation or unto destruction.



Alma 29:5

yea, and I know that good and evil have come before all men;

he that knoweth not good from evil is blameless;

but he that knoweth good and evil,

to him it is given according to his desires,

whether he desireth good or evil, life or death, joy or remorse of conscience.



Alma 29:8

For behold, the Lord doth grant

unto all nations, of their own nation and tongue,

to teach his word,

yea, in wisdom, all that he seeth fit that they should have;

therefore we see that the Lord doth counsel in wisdom,

according to that which is just and true.



Alma 29:9

I know that which the Lord hath commanded me,

and I glory in it.

I do not glory of myself,

but I glory in that which the Lord hath commanded me;

yea, and this is my glory,

that perhaps I may be an instrument in the hands of God

to bring some soul to repentance;

and this is my joy.



Alma 29:10

And behold, when I see many of my brethren truly penitent,

and coming to the Lord their God,

then is my soul filled with joy;

then do I remember what the Lord has done for me,

yea, even that he hath heard my prayer;

yea, then do I remember his merciful arm which he extended towards me.



Alma 29:11

yea, and I also remember the captivity of my fathers;

for I surely do know that the Lord did deliver them out of bondage,

and by this did establish his church;

yea, the Lord God, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,

did deliver them out of bondage.



Alma 29:12

yea, I have always remembered the captivity of my fathers;

and that same God who delivered them out of the hands of the Egyptians

did deliver them out of bondage.



Alma 29:13

yea, and that same God did establish his church among them;

yea, and that same God hath called me by a holy calling,

to preach the word unto this people,

and hath given me much success, in the which my joy is full.



Alma 29:17

And now may God grant unto these, my brethren,

that they may sit down in the kingdom of God;

yea, and also all those who are the fruit of their labors

that they may go no more out,

but that they may praise him forever.

And may God grant that it may be done according to my words,

even as I have spoken.

Amen.