THE SECOND BOOK OF NEPHI
An account of the death of Lehi. Nephi's
brethren rebel against him. The Lord warns Nephi to depart into the
wilderness. His journeyings in the wilderness, and so forth.
Chapter 1
2 Nephi 1:Verse 1
1 AND now it came to pass that after I, Nephi, had made
an end of teaching my brethren, our father, Lehi, also spake many
things unto them, and rehearsed unto them, how great things the
Lord had done for them in bringing them out of the land of
Jerusalem.
2 Nephi 1:Verse 2
2 And he spake unto them concerning their rebellions
upon the waters, and the mercies of God in sparing their lives,
that they were not swallowed up in the sea.
2 Nephi 1:Verse 3
3 And he also spake unto them concerning the land of
promise, which they had obtained--how merciful the Lord had been in
warning us that we should flee out of the land of Jerusalem.
2 Nephi 1:Verse 4
4 For, behold, said he, I have seen a vision, in which
I know that Jerusalem is destroyed; and had we remained in
Jerusalem we should also have perished.
2 Nephi 1:Verse 5
5 But, said he, notwithstanding our afflictions, we
have obtained a land of promise, a land which is choice above all
other lands; a land which the Lord God hath covenanted with me
should be a land for the inheritance of my seed. Yea, the Lord hath
covenanted this land unto me, and to my children forever, and also
all those who should be led out of other countries by the hand of
the Lord.
2 Nephi 1:Verse 6
6 Wherefore, I, Lehi, prophesy according to the
workings of the Spirit which is in me, that there shall none come
into this land save they shall be brought by the hand of the
Lord.
2 Nephi 1:Verse 7
7 Wherefore, this land is consecrated unto him whom he
shall bring. And if it so be that they shall serve him according to
the commandments which he hath given, it shall be a land of liberty
unto them; wherefore, they shall never be brought down into
captivity; if so, it shall be because of iniquity; for if iniquity
shall abound cursed shall be the land for their sakes, but unto the
righteous it shall be blessed forever.
2 Nephi 1:Verse 8
8 And behold, it is wisdom that this land should be
kept as yet from the knowledge of other nations; for behold, many
nations would overrun the land, that there would be no place for an
inheritance.
2 Nephi 1:Verse 9
9 Wherefore, I, Lehi, have obtained a promise, that
inasmuch as those whom the Lord God shall bring out of the land of
Jerusalem shall keep his commandments, they shall prosper upon the
face of this land; and they shall be kept from all other nations,
that they may possess this land unto themselves. And if it so be
that they shall keep his commandments they shall be blessed upon
the face of this land, and there shall be none to molest them, nor
to take away the land of their inheritance; and they shall dwell
safely forever.
2 Nephi 1:Verse 10
10 But behold, when the time cometh that they shall
dwindle in unbelief, after they have received so great blessings
from the hand of the Lord--having a knowledge of the creation of
the earth, and all men, knowing the great and marvelous works of
the Lord from the creation of the world; having power given them to
do all things by faith; having all the commandments from the
beginning, and having been brought by his infinite goodness into
this precious land of promise--behold, I say, if the day shall come
that they will reject the Holy One of Israel, the true Messiah,
their Redeemer and their God, behold, the judgments of him that is
just shall rest upon them.
2 Nephi 1:Verse 11
11 Yea, he will bring other nations unto them, and he
will give unto them power, and he will take away from them the
lands of their possessions, and he will cause them to be scattered
and smitten.
2 Nephi 1:Verse 12
12 Yea, as one generation passeth to another there
shall be bloodsheds, and great visitations among them; wherefore,
my sons, I would that ye would remember; yea, I would that ye would
hearken unto my words.
2 Nephi 1:Verse 13
13 O that ye would awake; awake from a deep sleep, yea,
even from the sleep of hell, and shake off the awful chains by
which ye are bound, which are the chains which bind the children of
men, that they are carried away captive down to the eternal gulf of
misery and woe.
2 Nephi 1:Verse 14
14 Awake! and arise from the dust, and hear the words
of a trembling parent, whose limbs ye must soon lay down in the
cold and silent grave, from whence no traveler can return; a few
more days and I go the way of all the earth.
2 Nephi 1:Verse 15
15 But behold, the Lord hath redeemed my soul from
hell; I have beheld his glory, and I am encircled about eternally
in the arms of his love.
2 Nephi 1:Verse 16
16 And I desire that ye should remember to observe the
statutes and the judgments of the Lord; behold, this hath been the
anxiety of my soul from the beginning.
2 Nephi 1:Verse 17
17 My heart hath been weighed down with sorrow from
time to time, for I have feared, lest for the hardness of your
hearts the Lord your God should come out in the fulness of his
wrath upon you, that ye be cut off and destroyed forever;
2 Nephi 1:Verse 18
18 Or, that a cursing should come upon you for the
space of many generations; and ye are visited by sword, and by
famine, and are hated, and are led according to the will and
captivity of the devil.
2 Nephi 1:Verse 19
19 O my sons, that these things might not come upon
you, but that ye might be a choice and a favored people of the
Lord. But behold, his will be done; for his ways are righteousness
forever.
2 Nephi 1:Verse 20
20 And he hath said that: Inasmuch as ye shall keep my
commandments ye shall prosper in the land; but inasmuch as ye will
not keep my commandments ye shall be cut off from my
presence.
2 Nephi 1:Verse 21
21 And now that my soul might have joy in you, and that
my heart might leave this world with gladness because of you, that
I might not be brought down with grief and sorrow to the grave,
arise from the dust, my sons, and be men, and be determined in one
mind and in one heart, united in all things, that ye may not come
down into captivity;
2 Nephi 1:Verse 22
22 That ye may not be cursed with a sore cursing; and
also, that ye may not incur the displeasure of a just God upon you,
unto the destruction, yea, the eternal destruction of both soul and
body.
2 Nephi 1:Verse 23
23 Awake, my sons; put on the armor of righteousness.
Shake off the chains with which ye are bound, and come forth out of
obscurity, and arise from the dust.
2 Nephi 1:Verse 24
24 Rebel no more against your brother, whose views have
been glorious, and who hath kept the commandments from the time
that we left Jerusalem; and who hath been an instrument in the
hands of God, in bringing us forth into the land of promise; for
were it not for him, we must have perished with hunger in the
wilderness; nevertheless, ye sought to take away his life; yea, and
he hath suffered much sorrow because of you.
2 Nephi 1:Verse 25
25 And I exceedingly fear and tremble because of you,
lest he shall suffer again; for behold, ye have accused him that he
sought power and authority over you; but I know that he hath not
sought for power nor authority over you, but he hath sought the
glory of God, and your own eternal welfare.
2 Nephi 1:Verse 26
26 And ye have murmured because he hath been plain unto
you. Ye say that he hath used sharpness; ye say that he hath been
angry with you; but behold, his sharpness was the sharpness of the
power of the word of God, which was in him; and that which ye call
anger was the truth, according to that which is in God, which he
could not restrain, manifesting boldly concerning your
iniquities.
2 Nephi 1:Verse 27
27 And it must needs be that the power of God must be
with him, even unto his commanding you that ye must obey. But
behold, it was not he, but it was the Spirit of the Lord which was
in him, which opened his mouth to utterance that he could not shut
it.
2 Nephi 1:Verse 28
28 And now my son, Laman, and also Lemuel and Sam, and
also my sons who are the sons of Ishmael, behold, if ye will
hearken unto the voice of Nephi ye shall not perish. And if ye will
hearken unto him I leave unto you a blessing, yea, even my first
blessing.
2 Nephi 1:Verse 29
29 But if ye will not hearken unto him I take away my
first blessing, yea, even my blessing, and it shall rest upon
him.
2 Nephi 1:Verse 30
30 And now, Zoram, I speak unto you: Behold, thou art
the servant of Laban; nevertheless, thou hast been brought out of
the land of Jerusalem, and I know that thou art a true friend unto
my son, Nephi, forever.
2 Nephi 1:Verse 31
31 Wherefore, because thou hast been faithful thy seed
shall be blessed with his seed, that they dwell in prosperity long
upon the face of this land; and nothing, save it shall be iniquity
among them, shall harm or disturb their prosperity upon the face of
this land forever.
2 Nephi 1:Verse 32
32 Wherefore, if ye shall keep the commandments of the
Lord, the Lord hath consecrated this land for the security of thy
seed with the seed of my son
Chapter 2
2 Nephi 2:Verse 1
1 AND now, Jacob, I speak unto you: Thou art my
first-born in the days of my tribulation in the wilderness. And
behold, in thy childhood thou hast suffered afflictions and much
sorrow, because of the rudeness of thy brethren.
2 Nephi 2:Verse 2
2 Nevertheless, Jacob, my first-born in the wilderness,
thou knowest the greatness of God; and he shall consecrate thine
afflictions for thy gain.
2 Nephi 2:Verse 3
3 Wherefore, thy soul shall be blessed, and thou shalt
dwell safely with thy brother, Nephi; and thy days shall be spent
in the service of thy God. Wherefore, I know that thou art
redeemed, because of the righteousness of thy Redeemer; for thou
hast beheld that in the fulness of time he cometh to bring
salvation unto men.
2 Nephi 2:Verse 4
4 And thou hast beheld in thy youth his glory;
wherefore, thou art blessed even as they unto whom he shall
minister in the flesh; for the Spirit is the same, yesterday,
today, and forever. And the way is prepared from the fall of man,
and salvation is free.
2 Nephi 2:Verse 5
5 And men are instructed sufficiently that they know
good from evil. And the law is given unto men. And by the law no
flesh is justified; or, by the law men are cut off. Yea, by the
temporal law they were cut off; and also, by the spiritual law they
perish from that which is good, and become miserable forever.
2 Nephi 2:Verse 6
6 Wherefore, redemption cometh in and through the Holy
Messiah; for he is full of grace and truth.
2 Nephi 2:Verse 7
7 Behold, he offereth himself a sacrifice for sin, to
answer the ends of the law, unto all those who have a broken heart
and a contrite spirit; and unto none else can the ends of the law
be answered.
2 Nephi 2:Verse 8
8 Wherefore, how great the importance to make these
things known unto the inhabitants of the earth, that they may know
that there is no flesh that can dwell in the presence of God, save
it be through the merits, and mercy, and grace of the Holy Messiah,
who layeth down his life according to the flesh, and taketh it
again by the power of the Spirit, that he may bring to pass the
resurrection of the dead, being the first that should rise.
2 Nephi 2:Verse 9
9 Wherefore, he is the firstfruits unto God, inasmuch
as he shall make intercession for all the children of men; and they
that believe in him shall be saved.
2 Nephi 2:Verse 10
10 And because of the intercession for all, all men
come unto God; wherefore, they stand in the presence of him, to be
judged of him according to the truth and holiness which is in him.
Wherefore, the ends of the law which the Holy One hath given, unto
the inflicting of the punishment which is affixed, which punishment
that is affixed is in opposition to that of the happiness which is
affixed, to answer the ends of the atonement--
2 Nephi 2:Verse 11
11 For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in
all things. If not so, my first-born in the wilderness,
righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness,
neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all
things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be
one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither
death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery,
neither sense nor insensibility.
2 Nephi 2:Verse 12
12 Wherefore, it must needs have been created for a
thing of naught; wherefore there would have been no purpose in the
end of its creation. Wherefore, this thing must needs destroy the
wisdom of God and his eternal purposes, and also the power, and the
mercy, and the justice of God.
2 Nephi 2:Verse 13
13 And if ye shall say there is no law, ye shall also
say there is no sin. If ye shall say there is no sin, ye shall also
say there is no righteousness. And if there be no righteousness
there be no happiness. And if there be no righteousness nor
happiness there be no punishment nor misery. And if these things
are not there is no God. And if there is no God we are not, neither
the earth; for there could have been no creation of things, neither
to act nor to be acted upon; wherefore, all things must have
vanished away.
2 Nephi 2:Verse 14
14 And now, my sons, I speak unto you these things for
your profit and learning; for there is a God, and he hath created
all things, both the heavens and the earth, and all things that in
them are, both things to act and things to be acted upon.
2 Nephi 2:Verse 15
15 And to bring about his eternal purposes in the end
of man, after he had created our first parents, and the beasts of
the field and the fowls of the air, and in fine, all things which
are created, it must needs be that there was an opposition; even
the forbidden fruit in opposition to the tree of life; the one
being sweet and the other bitter.
2 Nephi 2:Verse 16
16 Wherefore, the Lord God gave unto man that he should
act for himself. Wherefore, man could not act for himself save it
should be that he was enticed by the one or the other.
2 Nephi 2:Verse 17
17 And I, Lehi, according to the things which I have
read, must needs suppose that an angel of God, according to that
which is written, had fallen from heaven; wherefore, he became a
devil, having sought that which was evil before God.
2 Nephi 2:Verse 18
18 And because he had fallen from heaven, and had
become miserable forever, he sought also the misery of all mankind.
Wherefore, he said unto Eve, yea, even that old serpent, who is the
devil, who is the father of all lies, wherefore he said: Partake of
the forbidden fruit, and ye shall not die, but ye shall be as God,
knowing good and evil.
2 Nephi 2:Verse 19
19 And after Adam and Eve had partaken of the forbidden
fruit they were driven out of the garden of Eden, to till the
earth.
2 Nephi 2:Verse 20
20 And they have brought forth children; yea, even the
family of all the earth.
2 Nephi 2:Verse 21
21 And the days of the children of men were prolonged,
according to the will of God, that they might repent while in the
flesh; wherefore, their state became a state of probation, and
their time was lengthened, according to the commandments which the
Lord God gave unto the children of men. For he gave commandment
that all men must repent; for he showed unto all men that they were
lost, because of the transgression of their parents.
2 Nephi 2:Verse 22
22 And now, behold, if Adam had not transgressed he
would not have fallen, but he would have remained in the garden of
Eden. And all things which were created must have remained in the
same state in which they were after they were created; and they
must have remained forever, and had no end.
2 Nephi 2:Verse 23
23 And they would have had no children; wherefore they
would have remained in a state of innocence, having no joy, for
they knew no misery; doing no good, for they knew no sin.
2 Nephi 2:Verse 24
24 But behold, all things have been done in the wisdom
of him who knoweth all things.
2 Nephi 2:Verse 25
25 Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they
might have joy.
2 Nephi 2:Verse 26
26 And the Messiah cometh in the fulness of time, that
he may redeem the children of men from the fall. And because that
they are redeemed from the fall they have become free forever,
knowing good from evil; to act for themselves and not to be acted
upon, save it be by the punishment of the law at the great and last
day, according to the commandments which God hath given.
2 Nephi 2:Verse 27
27 Wherefore, men are free according to the flesh; and
all things are given them which are expedient unto man. And they
are free to choose liberty and eternal life, through the great
Mediator of all men, or to choose captivity and death, according to
the captivity and power of the devil; for he seeketh that all men
might be miserable like unto himself.
2 Nephi 2:Verse 28
28 And now, my sons, I would that ye should look to the
great Mediator, and hearken unto his great commandments; and be
faithful unto his words, and choose eternal life, according to the
will of his Holy Spirit;
2 Nephi 2:Verse 29
29 And not choose eternal death, according to the will
of the flesh and the evil which is therein, which giveth the spirit
of the devil power to captivate, to bring you down to hell, that he
may reign over you in his own kingdom.
2 Nephi 2:Verse 30
30 I have spoken these few words unto you all, my sons,
in the last days of my probation; and I have chosen the good part,
according to the words of the prophet. And I have none other object
save it be the everlasting welfare of your souls. Amen.
Chapter 3
2 Nephi 3:Verse 1
1 AND now I speak unto you, Joseph, my last-born. Thou
wast born in the wilderness of mine afflictions; yea, in the days
of my greatest sorrow did thy mother bear thee.
2 Nephi 3:Verse 2
2 And may the Lord consecrate also unto thee this land,
which is a most precious land, for thine inheritance and the
inheritance of thy seed with thy brethren, for thy security
forever, if it so be that ye shall keep the commandments of the
Holy One of Israel.
2 Nephi 3:Verse 3
3 And now, Joseph, my last-born, whom I have brought
out of the wilderness of mine afflictions, may the Lord bless thee
forever, for thy seed shall not utterly be destroyed.
2 Nephi 3:Verse 4
4 For behold, thou art the fruit of my loins; and I am
a descendant of Joseph who was carried captive into Egypt. And
great were the covenants of the Lord which he made unto
Joseph.
2 Nephi 3:Verse 5
5 Wherefore, Joseph truly saw our day. And he obtained
a promise of the Lord, that out of the fruit of his loins the Lord
God would raise up a righteous branch unto the house of Israel; not
the Messiah, but a branch which was to be broken off, nevertheless,
to be remembered in the covenants of the Lord that the Messiah
should be made manifest unto them in the latter days, in the spirit
of power, unto the bringing of them out of darkness unto
light--yea, out of hidden darkness and out of captivity unto
freedom.
2 Nephi 3:Verse 6
6 For Joseph truly testified, saying: A seer shall the
Lord my God raise up, who shall be a choice seer unto the fruit of
my loins.
2 Nephi 3:Verse 7
7 Yea, Joseph truly said: Thus saith the Lord unto me:
A choice seer will I raise up out of the fruit of thy loins; and he
shall be esteemed highly among the fruit of thy loins. And unto him
will I give commandment that he shall do a work for the fruit of
thy loins, his brethren, which shall be of great worth unto them,
even to the bringing of them to the knowledge of the covenants
which I have made with thy fathers.
2 Nephi 3:Verse 8
8 And I will give unto him a commandment that he shall
do none other work, save the work which I shall command him. And I
will make him great in mine eyes; for he shall do my work.
2 Nephi 3:Verse 9
9 And he shall be great like unto Moses, whom I have
said I would raise up unto you, to deliver my people, O house of
Israel.
2 Nephi 3:Verse 10
10 And Moses will I raise up, to deliver thy people out
of the land of Egypt.
2 Nephi 3:Verse 11
11 But a seer will I raise up out of the fruit of thy
loins; and unto him will I give power to bring forth my word unto
the seed of thy loins--and not to the bringing forth my word only,
saith the Lord, but to the convincing them of my word, which shall
have already gone forth among them.
2 Nephi 3:Verse 12
12 Wherefore, the fruit of thy loins shall write; and
the fruit of the loins of Judah shall write; and that which shall
be written by the fruit of thy loins, and also that which shall be
written by the fruit of the loins of Judah, shall grow together,
unto the confounding of false doctrines and laying down of
contentions, and establishing peace among the fruit of thy loins,
and bringing them to the knowledge of their fathers in the latter
days, and also to the knowledge of my covenants, saith the
Lord.
2 Nephi 3:Verse 13
13 And out of weakness he shall be made strong, in that
day when my work shall commence among all my people, unto the
restoring thee, O house of Israel, saith the Lord.
2 Nephi 3:Verse 14
14 And thus prophesied Joseph, saying: Behold, that
seer will the Lord bless; and they that seek to destroy him shall
be confounded; for this promise, which I have obtained of the Lord,
of the fruit of my loins, shall be fulfilled. Behold, I am sure of
the fulfilling of this promise;
2 Nephi 3:Verse 15
15 And his name shall be called after me; and it shall
be after the name of his father. And he shall be like unto me; for
the thing, which the Lord shall bring forth by his hand, by the
power of the Lord shall bring my people unto salvation.
2 Nephi 3:Verse 16
16 Yea, thus prophesied Joseph: I am sure of this
thing, even as I am sure of the promise of Moses; for the Lord hath
said unto me, I will preserve thy seed forever.
2 Nephi 3:Verse 17
17 And the Lord hath said: I will raise up a Moses; and
I will give power unto him in a rod; and I will give judgment unto
him in writing. Yet I will not loose his tongue, that he shall
speak much, for I will not make him mighty in speaking. But I will
write unto him my law, by the finger of mine own hand; and I will
make a spokesman for him.
2 Nephi 3:Verse 18
18 And the Lord said unto me also: I will raise up unto
the fruit of thy loins; and I will make for him a spokesman. And I,
behold, I will give unto him that he shall write the writing of the
fruit of thy loins, unto the fruit of thy loins; and the spokesman
of thy loins shall declare it.
2 Nephi 3:Verse 19
19 And the words which he shall write shall be the
words which are expedient in my wisdom should go forth unto the
fruit of thy loins. And it shall be as if the fruit of thy loins
had cried unto them from the dust; for I know their faith.
2 Nephi 3:Verse 20
20 And they shall cry from the dust; yea, even
repentance unto their brethren, even after many generations have
gone by them. And it shall come to pass that their cry shall go,
even according to the simpleness of their words.
2 Nephi 3:Verse 21
21 Because of their faith their words shall proceed
forth out of my mouth unto their brethren who are the fruit of thy
loins; and the weakness of their words will I make strong in their
faith, unto the remembering of my covenant which I made unto thy
fathers.
2 Nephi 3:Verse 22
22 And now, behold, my son Joseph, after this manner
did my father of old prophesy.
2 Nephi 3:Verse 23
23 Wherefore, because of this covenant thou art
blessed; for thy seed shall not be destroyed, for they shall
hearken unto the words of the book.
2 Nephi 3:Verse 24
24 And there shall rise up one mighty among them, who
shall do much good, both in word and in deed, being an instrument
in the hands of God, with exceeding faith, to work mighty wonders,
and do that thing which is great in the sight of God, unto the
bringing to pass much restoration unto the house of Israel, and
unto the seed of thy brethren.
2 Nephi 3:Verse 25
25 And now, blessed art thou, Joseph. Behold, thou art
little; wherefore hearken unto the words of thy brother, Nephi, and
it shall be done unto thee even according to the words which I have
spoken. Remember the words of thy dying father. Amen.
Chapter 4
2 Nephi 4:Verse 1
1 AND now, I, Nephi, speak concerning the prophecies of
which my father hath spoken, concerning Joseph, who was carried
into Egypt.
2 Nephi 4:Verse 2
2 For behold, he truly prophesied concerning all his
seed. And the prophecies which he wrote, there are not many
greater. And he prophesied concerning us, and our future
generations; and they are written upon the plates of brass.
2 Nephi 4:Verse 3
3 Wherefore, after my father had made an end of
speaking concerning the prophecies of Joseph, he called the
children of Laman, his sons, and his daughters, and said unto them:
Behold, my sons, and my daughters, who are the sons and the
daughters of my first-born, I would that ye should give ear unto my
words.
2 Nephi 4:Verse 4
4 For the Lord God hath said that: Inasmuch as ye shall
keep my commandments ye shall prosper in the land; and inasmuch as
ye will not keep my commandments ye shall be cut off from my
presence.
2 Nephi 4:Verse 5
5 But behold, my sons and my daughters, I cannot go
down to my grave save I should leave a blessing upon you; for
behold, I know that if ye are brought up in the way ye should go ye
will not depart from it.
2 Nephi 4:Verse 6
6 Wherefore, if ye are cursed, behold, I leave my
blessing upon you, that the cursing may be taken from you and be
answered upon the heads of your parents.
2 Nephi 4:Verse 7
7 Wherefore, because of my blessing the Lord God will
not suffer that ye shall perish; wherefore, he will be merciful
unto you and unto your seed forever.
2 Nephi 4:Verse 8
8 And it came to pass that after my father had made an
end of speaking to the sons and daughters of Laman, he caused the
sons and daughters of Lemuel to be brought before him.
2 Nephi 4:Verse 9
9 And he spake unto them, saying: Behold, my sons and
my daughters, who are the sons and the daughters of my second son;
behold I leave unto you the same blessing which I left unto the
sons and daughters of Laman; wherefore, thou shalt not utterly be
destroyed; but in the end thy seed shall be blessed.
2 Nephi 4:Verse 10
10 And it came to pass that when my father had made an
end of speaking unto them, behold, he spake unto the sons of
Ishmael, yea, and even all his household.
2 Nephi 4:Verse 11
11 And after he had made an end of speaking unto them,
he spake unto Sam, saying: Blessed art thou, and thy seed; for thou
shalt inherit the land like unto thy brother Nephi. And thy seed
shall be numbered with his seed; and thou shalt be even like unto
thy brother, and thy seed like unto his seed; and thou shalt be
blessed in all thy days.
2 Nephi 4:Verse 12
12 And it came to pass after my father, Lehi, had
spoken unto all his household, according to the feelings of his
heart and the Spirit of the Lord which was in him, he waxed old.
And it came to pass that he died, and was buried.
2 Nephi 4:Verse 13
13 And it came to pass that not many days after his
death, Laman and Lemuel and the sons of Ishmael were angry with me
because of the admonitions of the Lord.
2 Nephi 4:Verse 14
14 For I, Nephi, was constrained to speak unto them,
according to his word; for I had spoken many things unto them, and
also my father, before his death; many of which sayings are written
upon mine other plates; for a more history part are written upon
mine other plates.
2 Nephi 4:Verse 15
15 And upon these I write the things of my soul, and
many of the scriptures which are engraven upon the plates of brass.
For my soul delighteth in the scriptures, and my heart pondereth
them, and writeth them for the learning and the profit of my
children.
2 Nephi 4:Verse 16
16 Behold, my soul delighteth in the things of the
Lord; and my heart pondereth continually upon the things which I
have seen and heard.
2 Nephi 4:Verse 17
17 Nevertheless, notwithstanding the great goodness of
the Lord, in showing me his great and marvelous works, my heart
exclaimeth: O wretched man that I am! Yea, my heart sorroweth
because of my flesh; my soul grieveth because of mine
iniquities.
2 Nephi 4:Verse 18
18 I am encompassed about, because of the temptations
and the sins which do so easily beset me.
2 Nephi 4:Verse 19
19 And when I desire to rejoice, my heart groaneth
because of my sins; nevertheless, I know in whom I have
trusted.
2 Nephi 4:Verse 20
20 My God hath been my support; he hath led me through
mine afflictions in the wilderness; and he hath preserved me upon
the waters of the great deep.
2 Nephi 4:Verse 21
21 He hath filled me with his love, even unto the
consuming of my flesh.
2 Nephi 4:Verse 22
22 He hath confounded mine enemies, unto the causing of
them to quake before me.
2 Nephi 4:Verse 23
23 Behold, he hath heard my cry by day, and he hath
given me knowledge by visions in the night-time.
2 Nephi 4:Verse 24
24 And by day have I waxed bold in mighty prayer before
him; yea, my voice have I sent up on high; and angels came down and
ministered unto me.
2 Nephi 4:Verse 25
25 And upon the wings of his Spirit hath my body been
carried away upon exceedingly high mountains. And mine eyes have
beheld great things, yea, even too great for man; therefore I was
bidden that I should not write them.
2 Nephi 4:Verse 26
26 O then, if I have seen so great things, if the Lord
in his condescension unto the children of men hath visited men in
so much mercy, why should my heart weep and my soul linger in the
valley of sorrow, and my flesh waste away, and my strength slacken,
because of mine afflictions?
2 Nephi 4:Verse 27
27 And why should I yield to sin, because of my flesh?
Yea, why should I give way to temptations, that the evil one have
place in my heart to destroy my peace and afflict my soul? Why am I
angry because of mine enemy?
2 Nephi 4:Verse 28
28 Awake, my soul! No longer droop in sin. Rejoice, O
my heart, and give place no more for the enemy of my soul.
2 Nephi 4:Verse 29
29 Do not anger again because of mine enemies. Do not
slacken my strength because of mine afflictions.
2 Nephi 4:Verse 30
30 Rejoice, O my heart, and cry unto the Lord, and say:
O Lord, I will praise thee forever; yea, my soul will rejoice in
thee, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
2 Nephi 4:Verse 31
31 O Lord, wilt thou redeem my soul? Wilt thou deliver
me out of the hands of mine enemies? Wilt thou make me that I may
shake at the appearance of sin?
2 Nephi 4:Verse 32
32 May the gates of hell be shut continually before me,
because that my heart is broken and my spirit is contrite! O Lord,
wilt thou not shut the gates of thy righteousness before me, that I
may walk in the path of the low valley, that I may be strict in the
plain road!
2 Nephi 4:Verse 33
33 O Lord, wilt thou encircle me around in the robe of
thy righteousness! O Lord, wilt thou make a way for mine escape
before mine enemies! Wilt thou make my path straight before me!
Wilt thou not place a stumbling block in my way--but that thou
wouldst clear my way before me, and hedge not up my way, but the
ways of mine enemy.
2 Nephi 4:Verse 34
34 O Lord, I have trusted in thee, and I will trust in
thee forever. I will not put my trust in the arm of flesh; for I
know that cursed is he that putteth his trust in the arm of flesh.
Yea, cursed is he that putteth his trust in man or maketh flesh his
arm.
2 Nephi 4:Verse 35
35 Yea, I know that God will give liberally to him that
asketh. Yea, my God will give me, if I ask not amiss; therefore I
will lift up my voice unto thee; yea, I will cry unto thee, my God,
the rock of my righteousness. Behold, my voice shall forever ascend
up unto thee, my rock and mine everlasting God. Amen.
Chapter 5
2 Nephi 5:Verse 1
1 Behold, it came to pass that I, Nephi, did cry much
unto the Lord my God, because of the anger of my brethren.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 2
2 But behold, their anger did increase against me,
insomuch that they did seek to take away my life.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 3
3 Yea, they did murmur against me, saying: Our younger
brother thinks to rule over us; and we have had much trial because
of him; wherefore, now let us slay him, that we may not be
afflicted more because of his words. For behold, we will not have
him to be our ruler; for it belongs unto us, who are the elder
brethren, to rule over this people.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 4
4 Now I do not write upon these plates all the words
which they murmured against me. But it sufficeth me to say, that
they did seek to take away my life.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 5
5 And it came to pass that the Lord did warn me, that
I, Nephi, should depart from them and flee into the wilderness, and
all those who would go with me.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 6
6 Wherefore, it came to pass that I, Nephi, did take my
family, and also Zoram and his family, and Sam, mine elder brother
and his family, and Jacob and Joseph, my younger brethren, and also
my sisters, and all those who would go with me. And all those who
would go with me were those who believed in the warnings and the
revelations of God; wherefore, they did hearken unto my
words.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 7
7 And we did take our tents and whatsoever things were
possible for us, and did journey in the wilderness for the space of
many days. And after we had journeyed for the space of many days we
did pitch our tents.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 8
8 And my people would that we should call the name of
the place Nephi; wherefore, we did call it Nephi.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 9
9 And all those who were with me did take upon them to
call themselves the people of Nephi.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 10
10 And we did observe to keep the judgments, and the
statutes, and the commandments of the Lord in all things, according
to the law of Moses.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 11
11 And the Lord was with us; and we did prosper
exceedingly; for we did sow seed, and we did reap again in
abundance. And we began to raise flocks, and herds, and animals of
every kind.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 12
12 And I, Nephi, had also brought the records which
were engraven upon the plates of brass; and also the ball, or
compass, which was prepared for my father by the hand of the Lord,
according to that which is written.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 13
13 And it came to pass that we began to prosper
exceedingly, and to multiply in the land.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 14
14 And I, Nephi, did take the sword of Laban, and after
the manner of it did make many swords, lest by any means the people
who were now called Lamanites should come upon us and destroy us;
for I knew their hatred towards me and my children and those who
were called my people.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 15
15 And I did teach my people to build buildings, and to
work in all manner of wood, and of iron, and of copper, and of
brass, and of steel, and of gold, and of silver, and of precious
ores, which were in great abundance.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 16
16 And I, Nephi, did build a temple; and I did
construct it after the manner of the temple of Solomon save it were
not built of so many precious things; for they were not to be found
upon the land, wherefore, it could not be built like unto Solomon's
temple. But the manner of the construction was like unto the temple
of Solomon; and the workmanship thereof was exceedingly fine.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 17
17 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, did cause my
people to be industrious, and to labor with their hands.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 18
18 And it came to pass that they would that I should be
their king. But I, Nephi, was desirous that they should have no
king; nevertheless, I did for them according to that which was in
my power.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 19
19 And behold, the words of the Lord had been fulfilled
unto my brethren, which he spake concerning them, that I should be
their ruler and their teacher. Wherefore, I had been their ruler
and their teacher, according to the commandments of the Lord, until
the time they sought to take away my life.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 20
20 Wherefore, the word of the Lord was fulfilled which
he spake unto me, saying that: Inasmuch as they will not hearken
unto thy words they shall be cut off from the presence of the Lord.
And behold, they were cut off from his presence.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 21
21 And he had caused the cursing to come upon them,
yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold,
they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become
like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly
fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my
people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon
them.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 22
22 And thus saith the Lord God: I will cause that they
shall be loathsome unto thy people, save they shall repent of their
iniquities.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 23
23 And cursed shall be the seed of him that mixeth with
their seed; for they shall be cursed even with the same cursing.
And the Lord spake it, and it was done.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 24
24 And because of their cursing which was upon them
they did become an idle people, full of mischief and subtlety, and
did seek in the wilderness for beasts of prey.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 25
25 And the Lord God said unto me: They shall be a
scourge unto thy seed, to stir them up in remembrance of me; and
inasmuch as they will not remember me, and hearken unto my words,
they shall scourge them even unto destruction.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 26
26 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, did consecrate
Jacob and Joseph, that they should be priests and teachers over the
land of my people.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 27
27 And it came to pass that we lived after the manner
of happiness.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 28
28 And thirty years had passed away from the time we
left Jerusalem.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 29
29 And I, Nephi, had kept the records upon my plates,
which I had made, of my people thus far.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 30
30 And it came to pass that the Lord God said unto me:
Make other plates; and thou shalt engraven many things upon them
which are good in my sight, for the profit of thy people.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 31
31 Wherefore, I, Nephi, to be obedient to the
commandments of the Lord, went and made these plates upon which I
have engraven these things.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 32
32 And I engraved that which is pleasing unto God. And
if my people are pleased with the things of God they will be
pleased with mine engravings which are upon these plates.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 33
33 And if my people desire to know the more particular
part of the history of my people they must search mine other
plates.
2 Nephi 5:Verse 34
34 And it sufficeth me to say that forty years had
passed away, and we had already had wars and contentions with our
brethren.
Chapter 6
2 Nephi 6:Verse 1
1 THE words of Jacob, the brother of Nephi, which he
spake unto the people of Nephi:
2 Nephi 6:Verse 2
2 Behold, my beloved brethren, I, Jacob, having been
called of God, and ordained after the manner of his holy order, and
having been consecrated by my brother Nephi, unto whom ye look as a
king or a protector, and on whom ye depend for safety, behold ye
know that I have spoken unto you exceedingly many things.
2 Nephi 6:Verse 3
3 Nevertheless, I speak unto you again; for I am
desirous for the welfare of your souls. Yea, mine anxiety is great
for you; and ye yourselves know that it ever has been. For I have
exhorted you with all diligence; and I have taught you the words of
my father; and I have spoken unto you concerning all things which
are written, from the creation of the world.
2 Nephi 6:Verse 4
4 And now, behold, I would speak unto you concerning
things which are, and which are to come; wherefore, I will read you
the words of Isaiah. And they are the words which my brother has
desired that I should speak unto you. And I speak unto you for your
sakes, that ye may learn and glorify the name of your God.
2 Nephi 6:Verse 5
5 And now, the words which I shall read are they which
Isaiah spake concerning all the house of Israel; wherefore, they
may be likened unto you, for ye are of the house of Israel. And
there are many things which have been spoken by Isaiah which may be
likened unto you, because ye are of the house of Israel.
2 Nephi 6:Verse 6
6 And now, these are the words: Thus saith the Lord
God: Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up
my standard to the people; and they shall bring thy sons in their
arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their
shoulders.
2 Nephi 6:Verse 7
7 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their
queens thy nursing mothers; they shall bow down to thee with their
faces towards the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou
shalt know that I am the Lord; for they shall not be ashamed that
wait for me.
2 Nephi 6:Verse 8
8 And now I, Jacob, would speak somewhat concerning
these words. For behold, the Lord has shown me that those who were
at Jerusalem, from whence we came, have been slain and carried away
captive.
2 Nephi 6:Verse 9
9 Nevertheless, the Lord has shown unto me that they
should return again. And he also has shown unto me that the Lord
God, the Holy One of Israel, should manifest himself unto them in
the flesh; and after he should manifest himself they should scourge
him and crucify him, according to the words of the angel who spake
it unto me.
2 Nephi 6:Verse 10
10 And after they have hardened their hearts and
stiffened their necks against the Holy One of Israel, behold, the
judgments of the Holy One of Israel shall come upon them. And the
day cometh that they shall be smitten and afflicted.
2 Nephi 6:Verse 11
11 Wherefore, after they are driven to and fro, for
thus saith the angel, many shall be afflicted in the flesh, and
shall not be suffered to perish, because of the prayers of the
faithful; they shall be scattered, and smitten, and hated;
nevertheless, the Lord will be merciful unto them, that when they
shall come to the knowledge of their Redeemer, they shall be
gathered together again to the lands of their inheritance.
2 Nephi 6:Verse 12
12 And blessed are the Gentiles, they of whom the
prophet has written; for behold, if it so be that they shall repent
and fight not against Zion, and do not unite themselves to that
great and abominable church, they shall be saved; for the Lord God
will fulfil his covenants which he has made unto his children; and
for this cause the prophet has written these things.
2 Nephi 6:Verse 13
13 Wherefore, they that fight against Zion and the
covenant people of the Lord shall lick up the dust of their feet;
and the people of the Lord shall not be ashamed. For the people of
the Lord are they who wait for him; for they still wait for the
coming of the Messiah.
2 Nephi 6:Verse 14
14 And behold, according to the words of the prophet,
the Messiah will set himself again the second time to recover them;
wherefore, he will manifest himself unto them in power and great
glory, unto the destruction of their enemies, when that day cometh
when they shall believe in him; and none will he destroy that
believe in him.
2 Nephi 6:Verse 15
15 And they that believe not in him shall be destroyed,
both by fire, and by tempest, and by earthquakes, and by
bloodsheds, and by pestilence, and by famine. And they shall know
that the Lord is God, the Holy One of Israel.
2 Nephi 6:Verse 16
16 For shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the
lawful captive delivered?
2 Nephi 6:Verse 17
17 But thus saith the Lord: Even the captives of the
mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be
delivered; for the Mighty God shall deliver his covenant people.
For thus saith the Lord: I will contend with them that contendeth
with thee--
2 Nephi 6:Verse 18
18 And I will feed them that oppress thee, with their
own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood as with
sweet wine; and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Savior
and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
Chapter 7
2 Nephi 7:Verse 1
1 Yea, for thus saith the Lord: Have I put thee away,
or have I cast thee off forever? For thus saith the Lord: Where is
the bill of your mother's divorcement? To whom have I put thee
away, or to which of my creditors have I sold you? Yea, to whom
have I sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold
yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put
away.
2 Nephi 7:Verse 2
2 Wherefore, when I came, there was no man; when I
called, yea, there was none to answer. O house of Israel, is my
hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem, or have I no power to
deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make their rivers
a wilderness and their fish to stink because the waters are dried
up, and they die because of thirst.
2 Nephi 7:Verse 3
3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make
sackcloth their covering.
2 Nephi 7:Verse 4
4 The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned,
that I should know how to speak a word in season unto thee, O house
of Israel. When ye are weary he waketh morning by morning. He
waketh mine ear to hear as the learned.
2 Nephi 7:Verse 5
5 The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not
rebellious, neither turned away back.
2 Nephi 7:Verse 6
6 I gave my back to the smiter, and my cheeks to them
that plucked off the hair. I hid not my face from shame and
spitting.
2 Nephi 7:Verse 7
7 For the Lord God will help me, therefore shall I not
be confounded. Therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I
know that I shall not be ashamed.
2 Nephi 7:Verse 8
8 And the Lord is near, and he justifieth me. Who will
contend with me? Let us stand together. Who is mine adversary? Let
him come near me, and I will smite him with the strength of my
mouth.
2 Nephi 7:Verse 9
9 For the Lord God will help me. And all they who shall
condemn me, behold, all they shall wax old as a garment, and the
moth shall eat them up.
2 Nephi 7:Verse 10
10 Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth
the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness and hath no
light?
2 Nephi 7:Verse 11
11 Behold all ye that kindle fire, that compass
yourselves about with sparks, walk in the light of your fire and in
the sparks which ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine
hand--ye shall lie down in sorrow.
Chapter 8
2 Nephi 8:Verse 1
1 HEARKEN unto me, ye that follow after righteousness.
Look unto the rock from whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the
pit from whence ye are digged.
2 Nephi 8:Verse 2
2 Look unto Abraham, your father, and unto Sarah, she
that bare you; for I called him alone, and blessed him.
2 Nephi 8:Verse 3
3 For the Lord shall comfort Zion, he will comfort all
her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and
her desert like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness shall be
found therein, thanksgiving and the voice of melody.
2 Nephi 8:Verse 4
4 Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O
my nation; for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my
judgment to rest for a light for the people.
2 Nephi 8:Verse 5
5 My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth,
and mine arm shall judge the people. The isles shall wait upon me,
and on mine arm shall they trust.
2 Nephi 8:Verse 6
6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the
earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and
the earth shall wax old like a garment; and they that dwell therein
shall die in like manner. But my salvation shall be forever, and my
righteousness shall not be abolished.
2 Nephi 8:Verse 7
7 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the
people in whose heart I have written my law, fear ye not the
reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
2 Nephi 8:Verse 8
8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and
the worm shall eat them like wool. But my righteousness shall be
forever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
2 Nephi 8:Verse 9
9 Awake, awake! Put on strength, O arm of the Lord;
awake as in the ancient days. Art thou not he that hath cut Rahab,
and wounded the dragon?
2 Nephi 8:Verse 10
10 Art thou not he who hath dried the sea, the waters
of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for
the ransomed to pass over?
2 Nephi 8:Verse 11
11 Therefore, the redeemed of the Lord shall return,
and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy and holiness
shall be upon their heads; and they shall obtain gladness and joy;
sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
2 Nephi 8:Verse 12
12 I am he; yea, I am he that comforteth you. Behold,
who art thou, that thou shouldst be afraid of man, who shall die,
and of the son of man, who shall be made like unto grass?
2 Nephi 8:Verse 13
13 And forgettest the Lord thy maker, that hath
stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth,
and hast feared continually every day, because of the fury of the
oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? And where is the fury of
the oppressor?
2 Nephi 8:Verse 14
14 The captive exile hasteneth, that he may be loosed,
and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should
fail.
2 Nephi 8:Verse 15
15 But I am the Lord thy God, whose waves roared; the
Lord of Hosts is my name.
2 Nephi 8:Verse 16
16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and have
covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the
heavens and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion:
Behold, thou art my people.
2 Nephi 8:Verse 17
17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast
drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury--thou hast
drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling wrung out--
2 Nephi 8:Verse 18
18 And none to guide her among all the sons she hath
brought forth; neither that taketh her by the hand, of all the sons
she hath brought up.
2 Nephi 8:Verse 19
19 These two sons are come unto thee, who shall be
sorry for thee--thy desolation and destruction, and the famine and
the sword--and by whom shall I comfort thee?
2 Nephi 8:Verse 20
20 Thy sons have fainted, save these two; they lie at
the head of all the streets; as a wild bull in a net, they are full
of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God.
2 Nephi 8:Verse 21
21 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and
drunken, and not with wine:
2 Nephi 8:Verse 22
22 Thus saith thy Lord, the Lord and thy God pleadeth
the cause of his people; behold, I have taken out of thine hand the
cup of trembling, the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no
more drink it again.
2 Nephi 8:Verse 23
23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict
thee; who have said to thy soul: Bow down, that we may go over--and
thou hast laid thy body as the ground and as the street to them
that went over.
2 Nephi 8:Verse 24
24 Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on
thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for henceforth
there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the
unclean.
2 Nephi 8:Verse 25
25 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, sit down, O
Jerusalem; loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive
daughter of Zion.
Chapter 9
2 Nephi 9:Verse 1
1 AND now, my beloved brethren, I have read these
things that ye might know concerning the covenants of the Lord that
he has covenanted with all the house of Israel--
2 Nephi 9:Verse 2
2 That he has spoken unto the Jews, by the mouth of his
holy prophets, even from the beginning down, from generation to
generation, until the time comes that they shall be restored to the
true church and fold of God; when they shall be gathered home to
the lands of their inheritance, and shall be established in all
their lands of promise.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 3
3 Behold, my beloved brethren, I speak unto you these
things that ye may rejoice, and lift up your heads forever, because
of the blessings which the Lord God shall bestow upon your
children.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 4
4 For I know that ye have searched much, many of you,
to know of things to come; wherefore I know that ye know that our
flesh must waste away and die; nevertheless, in our bodies we shall
see God.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 5
5 Yea, I know that ye know that in the body he shall
show himself unto those at Jerusalem, from whence we came; for it
is expedient that it should be among them; for it behooveth the
great Creator that he suffereth himself to become subject unto man
in the flesh, and die for all men, that all men might become
subject unto him.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 6
6 For as death hath passed upon all men, to fulfil the
merciful plan of the great Creator, there must needs be a power of
resurrection, and the resurrection must needs come unto man by
reason of the fall; and the fall came by reason of transgression;
and because man became fallen they were cut off from the presence
of the Lord.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 7
7 Wherefore, it must needs be an infinite
atonement--save it should be an infinite atonement this corruption
could not put on incorruption. Wherefore, the first judgment which
came upon man must needs have remained to an endless duration. And
if so, this flesh must have laid down to rot and to crumble to its
mother earth, to rise no more.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 8
8 O the wisdom of God, his mercy and grace! For behold,
if the flesh should rise no more our spirits must become subject to
that angel who fell from before the presence of the Eternal God,
and became the devil, to rise no more.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 9
9 And our spirits must have become like unto him, and
we become devils, angels to a devil, to be shut out from the
presence of our God, and to remain with the father of lies, in
misery, like unto himself; yea, to that being who beguiled our
first parents, who transformeth himself nigh unto an angel of
light, and stirreth up the children of men unto secret combinations
of murder and all manner of secret works of darkness.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 10
10 O how great the goodness of our God, who prepareth a
way for our escape from the grasp of this awful monster; yea, that
monster, death and hell, which I call the death of the body, and
also the death of the spirit.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 11
11 And because of the way of deliverance of our God,
the Holy One of Israel, this death, of which I have spoken, which
is the temporal, shall deliver up its dead; which death is the
grave.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 12
12 And this death of which I have spoken, which is the
spiritual death, shall deliver up its dead; which spiritual death
is hell; wherefore, death and hell must deliver up their dead, and
hell must deliver up its captive spirits, and the grave must
deliver up its captive bodies, and the bodies and the spirits of
men will be restored one to the other; and it is by the power of
the resurrection of the Holy One of Israel.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 13
13 O how great the plan of our God! For on the other
hand, the paradise of God must deliver up the spirits of the
righteous, and the grave deliver up the body of the righteous; and
the spirit and the body is restored to itself again, and all men
become incorruptible, and immortal, and they are living souls,
having a perfect knowledge like unto us in the flesh, save it be
that our knowledge shall be perfect.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 14
14 Wherefore, we shall have a perfect knowledge of all
our guilt, and our uncleanness, and our nakedness; and the
righteous shall have a perfect knowledge of their enjoyment, and
their righteousness, being clothed with purity, yea, even with the
robe of righteousness.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 15
15 And it shall come to pass that when all men shall
have passed from this first death unto life, insomuch as they have
become immortal, they must appear before the judgment-seat of the
Holy One of Israel; and then cometh the judgment, and then must
they be judged according to the holy judgment of God.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 16
16 And assuredly, as the Lord liveth, for the Lord God
hath spoken it, and it is his eternal word, which cannot pass away,
that they who are righteous shall be righteous still, and they who
are filthy shall be filthy still; wherefore, they who are filthy
are the devil and his angels; and they shall go away into
everlasting fire, prepared for them; and their torment is as a lake
of fire and brimstone, whose flame ascendeth up forever and ever
and has no end.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 17
17 O the greatness and the justice of our God! For he
executeth all his words, and they have gone forth out of his mouth,
and his law must be fulfilled.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 18
18 But, behold, the righteous, the saints of the Holy
One of Israel, they who have believed in the Holy One of Israel,
they who have endured the crosses of the world, and despised the
shame of it, they shall inherit the kingdom of God, which was
prepared for them from the foundation of the world, and their joy
shall be full forever.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 19
19 O the greatness of the mercy of our God, the Holy
One of Israel! For he delivereth his saints from that awful monster
the devil, and death, and hell, and that lake of fire and
brimstone, which is endless torment.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 20
20 O how great the holiness of our God! For he knoweth
all things, and there is not anything save he knows it.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 21
21 And he cometh into the world that he may save all
men if they will hearken unto his voice; for behold, he suffereth
the pains of all men, yea, the pains of every living creature, both
men, women, and children, who belong to the family of Adam.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 22
22 And he suffereth this that the resurrection might
pass upon all men, that all might stand before him at the great and
judgment day.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 23
23 And he commandeth all men that they must repent, and
be baptized in his name, having perfect faith in the Holy One of
Israel, or they cannot be saved in the kingdom of God.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 24
24 And if they will not repent and believe in his name,
and be baptized in his name, and endure to the end, they must be
damned; for the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, has spoken
it.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 25
25 Wherefore, he has given a law; and where there is no
law given there is no punishment; and where there is no punishment
there is no condemnation; and where there is no condemnation the
mercies of the Holy One of Israel have claim upon them, because of
the atonement; for they are delivered by the power of him.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 26
26 For the atonement satisfieth the demands of his
justice upon all those who have not the law given to them, that
they are delivered from that awful monster, death and hell, and the
devil, and the lake of fire and brimstone, which is endless
torment; and they are restored to that God who gave them breath,
which is the Holy One of Israel.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 27
27 But wo unto him that has the law given, yea, that
has all the commandments of God, like unto us, and that
transgresseth them, and that wasteth the days of his probation, for
awful is his state!
2 Nephi 9:Verse 28
28 O that cunning plan of the evil one! O the vainness,
and the frailties, and the foolishness of men! When they are
learned they think they are wise, and they hearken not unto the
counsel of God, for they set it aside, supposing they know of
themselves, wherefore, their wisdom is foolishness and it profiteth
them not. And they shall perish.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 29
29 But to be learned is good if they hearken unto the
counsels of God.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 30
30 But wo unto the rich, who are rich as to the things
of the world. For because they are rich they despise the poor, and
they persecute the meek, and their hearts are upon their treasures;
wherefore, their treasure is their God. And behold, their treasure
shall perish with them also.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 31
31 And wo unto the deaf that will not hear; for they
shall perish.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 32
32 Wo unto the blind that will not see; for they shall
perish also.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 33
33 Wo unto the uncircumcised of heart, for a knowledge
of their iniquities shall smite them at the last day.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 34
34 Wo unto the liar, for he shall be thrust down to
hell.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 35
35 Wo unto the murderer who deliberately killeth, for
he shall die.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 36
36 Wo unto them who commit whoredoms, for they shall be
thrust down to hell.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 37
37 Yea, wo unto those that worship idols, for the devil
of all devils delighteth in them.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 38
38 And, in fine, wo unto all those who die in their
sins; for they shall return to God, and behold his face, and remain
in their sins.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 39
39 O, my beloved brethren, remember the awfulness in
transgressing against that Holy God, and also the awfulness of
yielding to the enticings of that cunning one. Remember, to be
carnally-minded is death, and to be spiritually-minded is life
eternal.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 40
40 O, my beloved brethren, give ear to my words.
Remember the greatness of the Holy One of Israel. Do not say that I
have spoken hard things against you; for if ye do, ye will revile
against the truth; for I have spoken the words of your Maker. I
know that the words of truth are hard against all uncleanness; but
the righteous fear them not, for they love the truth and are not
shaken.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 41
41 O then, my beloved brethren, come unto the Lord, the
Holy One. Remember that his paths are righteous. Behold, the way
for man is narrow, but it lieth in a straight course before him,
and the keeper of the gate is the Holy One of Israel; and he
employeth no servant there; and there is none other way save it be
by the gate; for he cannot be deceived, for the Lord God is his
name.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 42
42 And whoso knocketh, to him will he open; and the
wise, and the learned, and they that are rich, who are puffed up
because of their learning, and their wisdom, and their riches--yea,
they are they whom he despiseth; and save they shall cast these
things away, and consider themselves fools before God, and come
down in the depths of humility, he will not open unto them.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 43
43 But the things of the wise and the prudent shall be
hid from them forever--yea, that happiness which is prepared for
the saints.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 44
44 O, my beloved brethren, remember my words. Behold, I
take off my garments, and I shake them before you; I pray the God
of my salvation that he view me with his all-searching eye;
wherefore, ye shall know at the last day, when all men shall be
judged of their works, that the God of Israel did witness that I
shook your iniquities from my soul, and that I stand with
brightness before him, and am rid of your blood.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 45
45 O, my beloved brethren, turn away from your sins;
shake off the chains of him that would bind you fast; come unto
that God who is the rock of your salvation.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 46
46 Prepare your souls for that glorious day when
justice shall be administered unto the righteous, even the day of
judgment, that ye may not shrink with awful fear; that ye may not
remember your awful guilt in perfectness, and be constrained to
exclaim: Holy, holy are thy judgments, O Lord God Almighty--but I
know my guilt; I transgressed thy law, and my transgressions are
mine; and the devil hath obtained me, that I am a prey to his awful
misery.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 47
47 But behold, my brethren, is it expedient that I
should awake you to an awful reality of these things? Would I
harrow up your souls if your minds were pure? Would I be plain unto
you according to the plainness of the truth if ye were freed from
sin?
2 Nephi 9:Verse 48
48 Behold, if ye were holy I would speak unto you of
holiness; but as ye are not holy, and ye look upon me as a teacher,
it must needs be expedient that I teach you the consequences of
sin.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 49
49 Behold, my soul abhorreth sin, and my heart
delighteth in righteousness; and I will praise the holy name of my
God.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 50
50 Come, my brethren, every one that thirsteth, come ye
to the waters; and he that hath no money, come buy and eat; yea,
come buy wine and milk without money and without price.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 51
51 Wherefore, do not spend money for that which is of
no worth, nor your labor for that which cannot satisfy. Hearken
diligently unto me, and remember the words which I have spoken; and
come unto the Holy One of Israel, and feast upon that which
perisheth not, neither can be corrupted, and let your soul delight
in fatness.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 52
52 Behold, my beloved brethren, remember the words of
your God; pray unto him continually by day, and give thanks unto
his holy name by night. Let your hearts rejoice.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 53
53 And behold how great the covenants of the Lord, and
how great his condescensions unto the children of men; and because
of his greatness, and his grace and mercy, he has promised unto us
that our seed shall not utterly be destroyed, according to the
flesh, but that he would preserve them; and in future generations
they shall become a righteous branch unto the house of
Israel.
2 Nephi 9:Verse 54
54 And now, my brethren, I would speak unto you more;
but on the morrow I will declare unto you the remainder of my
words. Amen.
Chapter 10
2 Nephi 10:Verse 1
1 AND now I, Jacob, speak unto you again, my beloved
brethren, concerning this righteous branch of which I have
spoken.
2 Nephi 10:Verse 2
2 For behold, the promises which we have obtained are
promises unto us according to the flesh; wherefore, as it has been
shown unto me that many of our children shall perish in the flesh
because of unbelief, nevertheless, God will be merciful unto many;
and our children shall be restored, that they may come to that
which will give them the true knowledge of their Redeemer.
2 Nephi 10:Verse 3
3 Wherefore, as I said unto you, it must needs be
expedient that Christ--for in the last night the angel spake unto
me that this should be his name--should come among the Jews, among
those who are the more wicked part of the world; and they shall
crucify him--for thus it behooveth our God, and there is none other
nation on earth that would crucify their God.
2 Nephi 10:Verse 4
4 For should the mighty miracles be wrought among other
nations they would repent, and know that he be their God.
2 Nephi 10:Verse 5
5 But because of priestcrafts and iniquities, they at
Jerusalem will stiffen their necks against him, that he be
crucified.
2 Nephi 10:Verse 6
6 Wherefore, because of their iniquities, destructions,
famines, pestilences, and bloodshed shall come upon them; and they
who shall not be destroyed shall be scattered among all
nations.
2 Nephi 10:Verse 7
7 But behold, thus saith the Lord God: When the day
cometh that they shall believe in me, that I am Christ, then have I
covenanted with their fathers that they shall be restored in the
flesh, upon the earth, unto the lands of their inheritance.
2 Nephi 10:Verse 8
8 And it shall come to pass that they shall be gathered
in from their long dispersion, from the isles of the sea, and from
the four parts of the earth; and the nations of the Gentiles shall
be great in the eyes of me, saith God, in carrying them forth to
the lands of their inheritance.
2 Nephi 10:Verse 9
9 Yea, the kings of the Gentiles shall be nursing
fathers unto them, and their queens shall become nursing mothers;
wherefore, the promises of the Lord are great unto the Gentiles,
for he hath spoken it, and who can dispute?
2 Nephi 10:Verse 10
10 But behold, this land, said God, shall be a land of
thine inheritance, and the Gentiles shall be blessed upon the
land.
2 Nephi 10:Verse 11
11 And this land shall be a land of liberty unto the
Gentiles, and there shall be no kings upon the land, who shall
raise up unto the Gentiles.
2 Nephi 10:Verse 12
12 And I will fortify this land against all other
nations.
2 Nephi 10:Verse 13
13 And he that fighteth against Zion shall perish,
saith God.
2 Nephi 10:Verse 14
14 For he that raiseth up a king against me shall
perish, for I, the Lord, the king of heaven, will be their king,
and I will be a light unto them forever, that hear my words.
2 Nephi 10:Verse 15
15 Wherefore, for this cause, that my covenants may be
fulfilled which I have made unto the children of men, that I will
do unto them while they are in the flesh, I must needs destroy the
secret works of darkness, and of murders, and of
abominations.
2 Nephi 10:Verse 16
16 Wherefore, he that fighteth against Zion, both Jew
and Gentile, both bond and free, both male and female, shall
perish; for they are they who are the whore of all the earth; for
they who are not for me are against me, saith our God.
2 Nephi 10:Verse 17
17 For I will fulfil my promises which I have made unto
the children of men, that I will do unto them while they are in the
flesh--
2 Nephi 10:Verse 18
18 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, thus saith our God:
I will afflict thy seed by the hand of the Gentiles; nevertheless,
I will soften the hearts of the Gentiles, that they shall be like
unto a father to them; wherefore, the Gentiles shall be blessed and
numbered among the house of Israel.
2 Nephi 10:Verse 19
19 Wherefore, I will consecrate this land unto thy
seed, and them who shall be numbered among thy seed, forever, for
the land of their inheritance; for it is a choice land, saith God
unto me, above all other lands, wherefore I will have all men that
dwell thereon that they shall worship me, saith God.
2 Nephi 10:Verse 20
20 And now, my beloved brethren, seeing that our
merciful God has given us so great knowledge concerning these
things, let us remember him, and lay aside our sins, and not hang
down our heads, for we are not cast off; nevertheless, we have been
driven out of the land of our inheritance; but we have been led to
a better land, for the Lord has made the sea our path, and we are
upon an isle of the sea.
2 Nephi 10:Verse 21
21 But great are the promises of the Lord unto them who
are upon the isles of the sea; wherefore as it says isles, there
must needs be more than this, and they are inhabited also by our
brethren.
2 Nephi 10:Verse 22
22 For behold, the Lord God has led away from time to
time from the house of Israel, according to his will and pleasure.
And now behold, the Lord remembereth all them who have been broken
off, wherefore he remembereth us also.
2 Nephi 10:Verse 23
23 Therefore, cheer up your hearts, and remember that
ye are free to act for yourselves--to choose the way of everlasting
death or the way of eternal life.
2 Nephi 10:Verse 24
24 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, reconcile yourselves
to the will of God, and not to the will of the devil and the flesh;
and remember, after ye are reconciled unto God, that it is only in
and through the grace of God that ye are saved.
2 Nephi 10:Verse 25
25 Wherefore, may God raise you from death by the power
of the resurrection, and also from everlasting death by the power
of the atonement, that ye may be received into the eternal kingdom
of God, that ye may praise him through grace divine. Amen.
Chapter 11
2 Nephi 11:Verse 1
1 AND now, Jacob spake many more things to my people at
that time; nevertheless only these things have I caused to be
written, for the things which I have written sufficeth me.
2 Nephi 11:Verse 2
2 And now I, Nephi, write more of the words of Isaiah,
for my soul delighteth in his words. For I will liken his words
unto my people, and I will send them forth unto all my children,
for he verily saw my Redeemer, even as I have seen him.
2 Nephi 11:Verse 3
3 And my brother, Jacob, also has seen him as I have
seen him; wherefore, I will send their words forth unto my children
to prove unto them that my words are true. Wherefore, by the words
of three, God hath said, I will establish my word. Nevertheless,
God sendeth more witnesses, and he proveth all his words.
2 Nephi 11:Verse 4
4 Behold, my soul delighteth in proving unto my people
the truth of the coming of Christ; for, for this end hath the law
of Moses been given; and all things which have been given of God
from the beginning of the world, unto man, are the typifying of
him.
2 Nephi 11:Verse 5
5 And also my soul delighteth in the covenants of the
Lord which he hath made to our fathers; yea, my soul delighteth in
his grace, and in his justice, and power, and mercy in the great
and eternal plan of deliverance from death.
2 Nephi 11:Verse 6
6 And my soul delighteth in proving unto my people that
save Christ should come all men must perish.
2 Nephi 11:Verse 7
7 For if there be no Christ there be no God; and if
there be no God we are not, for there could have been no creation.
But there is a God, and he is Christ, and he cometh in the fulness
of his own time.
2 Nephi 11:Verse 8
8 And now I write some of the words of Isaiah, that
whoso of my people shall see these words may lift up their hearts
and rejoice for all men. Now these are the words, and ye may liken
them unto you and unto all men.
Chapter 12
2 Nephi 12:Verse 1
1 THE word that Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw concerning
Judah and Jerusalem:
2 Nephi 12:Verse 2
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, when the
mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the
mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations
shall flow unto it.
2 Nephi 12:Verse 3
3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us
go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of
Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his
paths; for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the
Lord from Jerusalem.
2 Nephi 12:Verse 4
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:Verse 5
5 O house of Jacob, come ye and let us walk in the
light of the Lord; yea, come, for ye have all gone astray, every
one to his wicked ways.
2 Nephi 12:Verse 6
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:Verse 7
7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither
is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of
horses, neither is there any end of their chariots.
2 Nephi 12:Verse 8
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:Verse 9
9 And the mean man boweth not down, and the great man
humbleth himself not, therefore, forgive him not.
2 Nephi 12:Verse 10
10 O ye wicked ones, enter into the rock, and hide thee
in the dust, for the fear of the Lord and the glory of his majesty
shall smite thee.
2 Nephi 12:Verse 11
11 And it shall come to pass that the lofty looks of
man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed
down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
2 Nephi 12:Verse 12
12 For the day of the Lord of Hosts soon cometh upon
all nations, yea, upon every one; yea, upon the proud and lofty,
and upon every one who is lifted up, and he shall be brought
low.
2 Nephi 12:Verse 13
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:Verse 14
14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the
hills, and upon all the nations which are lifted up, and upon every
people;
2 Nephi 12:Verse 15
15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced
wall;
2 Nephi 12:Verse 16
16 And upon all the ships of the sea, and upon all the
ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
2 Nephi 12:Verse 17
17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and
the haughtiness of men shall be made low; and the Lord alone shall
be exalted in that day.
2 Nephi 12:Verse 18
18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
2 Nephi 12:Verse 19
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 12:Verse 20
20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver,
and his idols of gold, which he hath made for himself to worship,
to the moles and to the bats;
2 Nephi 12:Verse 21
21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the
tops of the ragged rocks, for the fear of the Lord shall come upon
them and the majesty of his glory shall smite them, when he ariseth
to shake terribly the earth.
2 Nephi 12:Verse 22
22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils;
for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Chapter 13
2 Nephi 13:Verse 1
1 FOR behold, the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, doth take
away from Jerusalem, and from Judah, the stay and the staff, the
whole staff of bread, and the whole stay of water--
2 Nephi 13:Verse 2
2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and
the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient;
2 Nephi 13:Verse 3
3 The captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the
counselor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent
orator.
2 Nephi 13:Verse 4
4 And I will give children unto them to be their
princes, and babes shall rule over them.
2 Nephi 13:Verse 5
5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by
another, and every one by his neighbor; the child shall behave
himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the
honorable.
2 Nephi 13:Verse 6
6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the
house of his father, and shall say: Thou hast clothing, be thou our
ruler, and let not this ruin come under thy hand--
2 Nephi 13:Verse 7
7 In that day shall he swear, saying: I will not be a
healer; for in my house there is neither bread nor clothing; make
me not a ruler of the people.
2 Nephi 13:Verse 8
8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen, because
their tongues and their doings have been against the Lord, to
provoke the eyes of his glory.
2 Nephi 13:Verse 9
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:Verse 10
10 Say unto the righteous that it is well with them;
for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
2 Nephi 13:Verse 11
11 Wo unto the wicked, for they shall perish; for the
reward of their hands shall be upon them!
2 Nephi 13:Verse 12
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:Verse 13
13 The Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge
the people.
2 Nephi 13:Verse 14
14 The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients
of his people and the princes thereof; for ye have eaten up the
vineyard and the spoil of the poor in your houses.
2 Nephi 13:Verse 15
15 What mean ye? Ye beat my people to pieces, and grind
the faces of the poor, saith the Lord God of Hosts.
2 Nephi 13:Verse 16
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 13:Verse 17
17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown
of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover
their secret parts.
2 Nephi 13:Verse 18
18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of
their tinkling ornaments, and cauls, and round tires like the
moon;
2 Nephi 13:Verse 19
19 The chains and the bracelets, and the
mufflers;
2 Nephi 13:Verse 20
20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the
headbands, and the tablets, and the ear-rings;
2 Nephi 13:Verse 21
21 The rings, and nose jewels;
2 Nephi 13:Verse 22
22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles,
and the wimples, and the crisping-pins;
2 Nephi 13:Verse 23
23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and hoods, and the
veils.
2 Nephi 13:Verse 24
24 And it shall come to pass, instead of sweet smell
there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle, a rent; and instead
of well set hair, baldness; and instead of a stomacher, a girding
of sackcloth; burning instead of beauty.
2 Nephi 13:Verse 25
25 Thy men shall fall by the sword and thy mighty in
the war.
2 Nephi 13:Verse 26
26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall
be desolate, and shall sit upon the ground.
Chapter 14
2 Nephi 14:Verse 1
1 AND in that day, seven women shall take hold of one
man, saying: We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel;
only let us be called by thy name to take away our reproach.
2 Nephi 14:Verse 2
2 In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful
and glorious; the fruit of the earth excellent and comely to them
that are escaped of Israel.
2 Nephi 14:Verse 3
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 14:Verse 4
4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the
daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem
from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit
of burning.
2 Nephi 14:Verse 5
5 And the Lord will create upon every dwelling-place of
mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day and
the shining of a flaming fire by night; for upon all the glory of
Zion shall be a defence.
2 Nephi 14:Verse 6
6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the
daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and a covert from
storm and from rain.
Chapter 15
2 Nephi 15:Verse 1
1 AND then will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my
beloved, touching his vineyard. My well-beloved hath a vineyard in
a very fruitful hill.
2 Nephi 15:Verse 2
2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones
thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower
in the midst of it, and also made a wine-press therein; and he
looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild
grapes.
2 Nephi 15:Verse 3
3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of
Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
2 Nephi 15:Verse 4
4 What could have been done more to my vineyard that I
have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring
forth grapes it brought forth wild grapes.
2 Nephi 15:Verse 5
5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my
vineyard--I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten
up; and I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden
down;
2 Nephi 15:Verse 6
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:Verse 7
7 For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of
Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant; and he looked for
judgment, and behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, a
cry.
2 Nephi 15:Verse 8
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:Verse 9
9 In mine ears, said the Lord of Hosts, of a truth many
houses shall be desolate, and great and fair cities without
inhabitant.
2 Nephi 15:Verse 10
10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and
the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.
2 Nephi 15:Verse 11
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:Verse 12
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:Verse 13
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:Verse 14
14 Therefore, hell hath enlarged herself, and opened
her mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude,
and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
2 Nephi 15:Verse 15
15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the
mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be
humbled.
2 Nephi 15:Verse 16
16 But the Lord of Hosts shall be exalted in judgment,
and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
2 Nephi 15:Verse 17
17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and
the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
2 Nephi 15:Verse 18
18 Wo unto them that draw iniquity with cords of
vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope;
2 Nephi 15:Verse 19
19 That say: Let him make speed, hasten his work, that
we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw
nigh and come, that we may know it.
2 Nephi 15:Verse 20
20 Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil,
that put darkness for light, and light for darkness, that put
bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
2 Nephi 15:Verse 21
21 Wo unto the wise in their own eyes and prudent in
their own sight!
2 Nephi 15:Verse 22
22 Wo unto the mighty to drink wine, and men of
strength to mingle strong drink;
2 Nephi 15:Verse 23
23 Who justify the wicked for reward, and take away the
righteousness of the righteous from him!
2 Nephi 15:Verse 24
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:Verse 25
25 Therefore, is the anger of the Lord kindled against
his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and
hath smitten them; and the hills did tremble, and their carcasses
were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is
not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
2 Nephi 15:Verse 26
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:Verse 27
27 None shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the
girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be
broken;
2 Nephi 15:Verse 28
28 Whose arrows shall be sharp, and all their bows
bent, and their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and
their wheels like a whirlwind, their roaring like a lion.
2 Nephi 15:Verse 29
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:Verse 30
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.
Chapter 16
2 Nephi 16:Verse 1
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.
2 Nephi 16:Verse 2
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.
2 Nephi 16:Verse 3
3 And one cried unto another, and said: Holy, holy,
holy, is the Lord of Hosts; the whole earth is full of his
glory.
2 Nephi 16:Verse 4
4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him
that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
2 Nephi 16:Verse 5
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:Verse 6
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;
2 Nephi 16:Verse 7
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.
2 Nephi 16:Verse 8
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:Verse 9
9 And he said: Go and tell this people--Hear ye indeed,
but they understood not; and see ye indeed, but they perceived
not.
2 Nephi 16:Verse 10
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.
2 Nephi 16:Verse 11
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;
2 Nephi 16:Verse 12
12 And the Lord have removed men far away, for there
shall be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
2 Nephi 16:Verse 13
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.
Chapter 17
2 Nephi 17:Verse 1
1 AND it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of
Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin, king of
Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up
toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against
it.
2 Nephi 17:Verse 2
2 And it was told the house of David, saying: Syria is
confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of
his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.
2 Nephi 17:Verse 3
3 Then said the Lord unto Isaiah: Go forth now to meet
Ahaz, thou and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of
the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
2 Nephi 17:Verse 4
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:Verse 5
5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have
taken evil counsel against thee, saying:
2 Nephi 17:Verse 6
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:Verse 7
7 Thus saith the Lord God: It shall not stand, neither
shall it come to pass.
2 Nephi 17:Verse 8
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:Verse 9
9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of
Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe surely ye shall
not be established.
2 Nephi 17:Verse 10
10 Moreover, the Lord spake again unto Ahaz,
saying:
2 Nephi 17:Verse 11
11 Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God; ask it either
in the depths, or in the heights above.
2 Nephi 17:Verse 12
12 But Ahaz said: I will not ask, neither will I tempt
the Lord.
2 Nephi 17:Verse 13
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:Verse 14
14 Therefore, the Lord himself shall give you a
sign--Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and shall bear a son, and
shall call his name Immanuel.
2 Nephi 17:Verse 15
15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to
refuse the evil and to choose the good.
2 Nephi 17:Verse 16
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:Verse 17
17 The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people,
and upon thy father's house, days that have not come from the day
that Ephraim departed from Judah, the king of Assyria.
2 Nephi 17:Verse 18
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:Verse 19
19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in
the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all
thorns, and upon all bushes.
2 Nephi 17:Verse 20
20 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor
that is hired, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria,
the head, and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the
beard.
2 Nephi 17:Verse 21
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, a man shall
nourish a young cow and two sheep;
2 Nephi 17:Verse 22
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:Verse 23
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:Verse 24
24 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither,
because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
2 Nephi 17:Verse 25
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.
Chapter 18
2 Nephi 18:Verse 1
1 Moreover, the word of the Lord said unto me: Take
thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen, concerning
Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
2 Nephi 18:Verse 2
2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record,
Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
2 Nephi 18:Verse 3
3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived and
bare a son. Then said the Lord to me: Call his name,
Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
2 Nephi 18:Verse 4
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:Verse 5
5 The Lord spake also unto me again, saying:
2 Nephi 18:Verse 6
6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of
Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's
son;
2 Nephi 18:Verse 7
7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them
the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria
and all his glory; and he shall come up over all his channels, and
go over all his banks.
2 Nephi 18:Verse 8
8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow
and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching
out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O
Immanuel.
2 Nephi 18:Verse 9
9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be
broken in pieces; and give ear all ye of far countries; gird
yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and
ye shall be broken in pieces.
2 Nephi 18:Verse 10
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:Verse 11
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:Verse 12
12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all to whom this
people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be
afraid.
2 Nephi 18:Verse 13
13 Sanctify the Lord of Hosts himself, and let him be
your fear, and let him be your dread.
2 Nephi 18:Verse 14
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:Verse 15
15 And many among them shall stumble and fall, and be
broken, and be snared, and be taken.
2 Nephi 18:Verse 16
16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my
disciples.
2 Nephi 18:Verse 17
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:Verse 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:Verse 19
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 18:Verse 20
20 To the law and to the testimony; and if they speak
not according to this word, it is because there is no light in
them.
2 Nephi 18:Verse 21
21 And they shall pass through it hardly bestead and
hungry; and it shall come to pass that when they shall be hungry,
they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and
look upward.
2 Nephi 18:Verse 22
22 And they shall look unto the earth and behold
trouble, and darkness, dimness of anguish, and shall be driven to
darkness.
Chapter 19
2 Nephi 19:Verse 1
1 Nevertheless, the dimness shall not be such as was in
her vexation, when at first he lightly afflicted the land of
Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali, and afterwards did more
grievously afflict by the way of the Red Sea beyond Jordan in
Galilee of the nations.
2 Nephi 19:Verse 2
2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great
light; they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon
them hath the light shined.
2 Nephi 19:Verse 3
3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and increased the
joy--they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as
men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
2 Nephi 19:Verse 4
4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the
staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor.
2 Nephi 19:Verse 5
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:Verse 6
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:Verse 7
7 Of the increase of government and peace there is no
end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom to order it,
and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth,
even forever. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will perform
this.
2 Nephi 19:Verse 8
8 The Lord sent his word unto Jacob and it hath lighted
upon Israel.
2 Nephi 19:Verse 9
9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the
inhabitants of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of
heart:
2 Nephi 19:Verse 10
10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with
hewn stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them
into cedars.
2 Nephi 19:Verse 11
11 Therefore the Lord shall set up the adversaries of
Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;
2 Nephi 19:Verse 12
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:Verse 13
13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth
them, neither do they seek the Lord of Hosts.
2 Nephi 19:Verse 14
14 Therefore will the Lord cut off from Israel head and
tail, branch and rush in one day.
2 Nephi 19:Verse 15
15 The ancient, he is the head; and the prophet that
teacheth lies, he is the tail.
2 Nephi 19:Verse 16
16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err;
and they that are led of them are destroyed.
2 Nephi 19:Verse 17
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:Verse 18
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:Verse 19
19 Through the wrath of the Lord of Hosts is the land
darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire; no man
shall spare his brother.
2 Nephi 19:Verse 20
20 And he shall snatch on the right hand and be hungry;
and he shall eat on the left hand and they shall not be satisfied;
they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm--
2 Nephi 19:Verse 21
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.
Chapter 20
2 Nephi 20:Verse 1
1 WO unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and
that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
2 Nephi 20:Verse 2
2 To turn away the needy from judgment, and to take
away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their
prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
2 Nephi 20:Verse 3
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:Verse 4
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:Verse 5
5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in
their hand is their indignation.
2 Nephi 20:Verse 6
6 I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and
against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge to take the
spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire
of the streets.
2 Nephi 20:Verse 7
7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart
think so; but in his heart it is to destroy and cut off nations not
a few.
2 Nephi 20:Verse 8
8 For he saith: Are not my princes altogether
kings?
2 Nephi 20:Verse 9
9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad?
Is not Samaria as Damascus?
2 Nephi 20:Verse 10
10 As my hand hath founded the kingdoms of the idols,
and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of
Samaria;
2 Nephi 20:Verse 11
11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her
idols, so do to Jerusalem and to her idols?
2 Nephi 20:Verse 12
12 Wherefore it shall come to pass that when the Lord
hath performed his whole work upon Mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I
will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria,
and the glory of his high looks.
2 Nephi 20:Verse 13
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:Verse 14
14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the
people; and as one gathereth eggs that are left have I gathered all
the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the
mouth, or peeped.
2 Nephi 20:Verse 15
15 Shall the ax boast itself against him that heweth
therewith? Shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh
it? As if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up,
or as if the staff should lift up itself as if it were no
wood!
2 Nephi 20:Verse 16
16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, send
among his fat ones, leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a
burning like the burning of a fire.
2 Nephi 20:Verse 17
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:Verse 18
18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of
his fruitful field, both soul and body; and they shall be as when a
standard-bearer fainteth.
2 Nephi 20:Verse 19
19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be
few, that a child may write them.
2 Nephi 20:Verse 20
20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the
remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob,
shall no more again stay upon him that smote them, but shall stay
upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
2 Nephi 20:Verse 21
21 The remnant shall return, yea, even the remnant of
Jacob, unto the mighty God.
2 Nephi 20:Verse 22
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:Verse 23
23 For the Lord God of Hosts shall make a consumption,
even determined in all the land.
2 Nephi 20:Verse 24
24 Therefore, thus saith the Lord God of Hosts: O my
people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian; he
shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against
thee, after the manner of Egypt.
2 Nephi 20:Verse 25
25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation
shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
2 Nephi 20:Verse 26
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 20:Verse 27
27 And it shall come to pass in that day that his
burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from
off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the
anointing.
2 Nephi 20:Verse 28
28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at
Michmash he hath laid up his carriages.
2 Nephi 20:Verse 29
29 They are gone over the passage; they have taken up
their lodging at Geba; Ramath is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is
fled.
2 Nephi 20:Verse 30
30 Lift up the voice, O daughter of Gallim; cause it to
be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
2 Nephi 20:Verse 31
31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather
themselves to flee.
2 Nephi 20:Verse 32
32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day; he shall
shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill
of Jerusalem.
2 Nephi 20:Verse 33
33 Behold, the Lord, the Lord of Hosts shall lop the
bough with terror; and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down;
and the haughty shall be humbled.
2 Nephi 20:Verse 34
34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forests
with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
Chapter 21
2 Nephi 21:Verse 1
1 AND there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of
Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots.
2 Nephi 21:Verse 2
2 And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the
spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and
might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;
2 Nephi 21:Verse 3
3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear
of the Lord; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes,
neither reprove after the hearing of his ears.
2 Nephi 21:Verse 4
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:Verse 5
5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins,
and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
2 Nephi 21:Verse 6
6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the
leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young
lion and fatling together; and a little child shall lead
them.
2 Nephi 21:Verse 7
7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones
shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the
ox.
2 Nephi 21:Verse 8
8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the
asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's
den.
2 Nephi 21:Verse 9
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:Verse 10
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:Verse 11
11 And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord
shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of
his people which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and
from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and
from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
2 Nephi 21:Verse 12
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:Verse 13
13 The envy of Ephraim also shall depart, and the
adversaries of Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not envy
Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
2 Nephi 21:Verse 14
14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the
Philistines towards the west; they shall spoil them of the east
together; they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the
children of Ammon shall obey them.
2 Nephi 21:Verse 15
15 And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the
Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind he shall shake his hand over
the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go
over dry shod.
2 Nephi 21:Verse 16
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.
Chapter 22
2 Nephi 22:Verse 1
1 AND in that day thou shalt say: O Lord, I will praise
thee; though thou wast angry with me thine anger is turned away,
and thou comfortedst me.
2 Nephi 22:Verse 2
2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be
afraid; for the Lord JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also
has become my salvation.
2 Nephi 22:Verse 3
3 Therefore, with joy shall ye draw water out of the
wells of salvation.
2 Nephi 22:Verse 4
4 And in that day shall ye say: Praise the Lord, call
upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention
that his name is exalted.
2 Nephi 22:Verse 5
5 Sing unto the Lord; for he hath done excellent
things; this is known in all the earth.
2 Nephi 22:Verse 6
6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion; for great
is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
Chapter 23
2 Nephi 23:Verse 1
1 THE burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz
did see.
2 Nephi 23:Verse 2
2 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the
voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of
the nobles.
2 Nephi 23:Verse 3
3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also
called my mighty ones, for mine anger is not upon them that rejoice
in my highness.
2 Nephi 23:Verse 4
4 The noise of the multitude in the mountains like as
of a great people, a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations
gathered together, the Lord of Hosts mustereth the hosts of the
battle.
2 Nephi 23:Verse 5
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:Verse 6
6 Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall
come as a destruction from the Almighty.
2 Nephi 23:Verse 7
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, every man's heart
shall melt;
2 Nephi 23:Verse 8
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:Verse 9
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:Verse 10
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:Verse 11
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:Verse 12
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even
a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
2 Nephi 23:Verse 13
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:Verse 14
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:Verse 15
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:Verse 16
16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before
their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled and their wives
ravished.
2 Nephi 23:Verse 17
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:Verse 18
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:Verse 19
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:Verse 20
20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be
dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian
pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold
there.
2 Nephi 23:Verse 21
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:Verse 22
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.
Chapter 24
2 Nephi 24:Verse 1
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:Verse 2
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:Verse 3
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:Verse 4
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:Verse 5
5 The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, the
scepters of the rulers.
2 Nephi 24:Verse 6
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:Verse 7
7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet; they break
forth into singing.
2 Nephi 24:Verse 8
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:Verse 9
9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at
thy coming; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief
ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the
kings of the nations.
2 Nephi 24:Verse 10
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:Verse 11
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:Verse 12
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of
the morning! Art thou cut down to the ground, which did weaken the
nations!
2 Nephi 24:Verse 13
13 For thou hast said in thy heart: I will ascend into
heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit
also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the
north;
2 Nephi 24:Verse 14
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I
will be like the Most High.
2 Nephi 24:Verse 15
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides
of the pit.
2 Nephi 24:Verse 16
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:Verse 17
17 And made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed
the cities thereof, and opened not the house of his
prisoners?
2 Nephi 24:Verse 18
18 All the kings of the nations, yea, all of them, lie
in glory, every one of them in his own house.
2 Nephi 24:Verse 19
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:Verse 20
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:Verse 21
21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the
iniquities of their fathers, that they do not rise, nor possess the
land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
2 Nephi 24:Verse 22
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:Verse 23
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:Verse 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:Verse 25
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:Verse 26
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:Verse 27
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:Verse 28
28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this
burden.
2 Nephi 24:Verse 29
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:Verse 30
30 And the first-born 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:Verse 31
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:Verse 32
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.
Chapter 25
2 Nephi 25:Verse 1
1 NOW I, Nephi, do speak somewhat concerning the words
which I have written, which have been spoken by the mouth of
Isaiah. For behold, Isaiah spake many things which were hard for
many of my people to understand; for they know not concerning the
manner of prophesying among the Jews.
2 Nephi 25:Verse 2
2 For I, Nephi, have not taught them many things
concerning the manner of the Jews; for their works were works of
darkness, and their doings were doings of abominations.
2 Nephi 25:Verse 3
3 Wherefore, I write unto my people, unto all those
that shall receive hereafter these things which I write, that they
may know the judgments of God, that they come upon all nations,
according to the word which he hath spoken.
2 Nephi 25:Verse 4
4 Wherefore, hearken, O my people, which are of the
house of Israel, and give ear unto my words; for because the words
of Isaiah are not plain unto you, nevertheless they are plain unto
all those that are filled with the spirit of prophecy. But I give
unto you a prophecy, according to the spirit which is in me;
wherefore I shall prophesy according to the plainness which hath
been with me from the time that I came out from Jerusalem with my
father; for behold, my soul delighteth in plainness unto my people,
that they may learn.
2 Nephi 25:Verse 5
5 Yea, and my soul delighteth in the words of Isaiah,
for I came out from Jerusalem, and mine eyes hath beheld the things
of the Jews, and I know that the Jews do understand the things of
the prophets, and there is none other people that understand the
things which were spoken unto the Jews like unto them, save it be
that they are taught after the manner of the things of the
Jews.
2 Nephi 25:Verse 6
6 But behold, I, Nephi, have not taught my children
after the manner of the Jews; but behold, I, of myself, have dwelt
at Jerusalem, wherefore I know concerning the regions round about;
and I have made mention unto my children concerning the judgments
of God, which hath come to pass among the Jews, unto my children,
according to all that which Isaiah hath spoken, and I do not write
them.
2 Nephi 25:Verse 7
7 But behold, I proceed with mine own prophecy,
according to my plainness; in the which I know that no man can err;
nevertheless, in the days that the prophecies of Isaiah shall be
fulfilled men shall know of a surety, at the times when they shall
come to pass.
2 Nephi 25:Verse 8
8 Wherefore, they are of worth unto the children of
men, and he that supposeth that they are not, unto them will I
speak particularly, and confine the words unto mine own people; for
I know that they shall be of great worth unto them in the last
days; for in that day shall they understand them; wherefore, for
their good have I written them.
2 Nephi 25:Verse 9
9 And as one generation hath been destroyed among the
Jews because of iniquity, even so have they been destroyed from
generation to generation according to their iniquities; and never
hath any of them been destroyed save it were foretold them by the
prophets of the Lord.
2 Nephi 25:Verse 10
10 Wherefore, it hath been told them concerning the
destruction which should come upon them, immediately after my
father left Jerusalem; nevertheless, they hardened their hearts;
and according to my prophecy they have been destroyed, save it be
those which are carried away captive into Babylon.
2 Nephi 25:Verse 11
11 And now this I speak because of the spirit which is
in me. And notwithstanding they have been carried away they shall
return again, and possess the land of Jerusalem; wherefore, they
shall be restored again to the land of their inheritance.
2 Nephi 25:Verse 12
12 But, behold, they shall have wars, and rumors of
wars; and when the day cometh that the Only Begotten of the Father,
yea, even the Father of heaven and of earth, shall manifest himself
unto them in the flesh, behold, they will reject him, because of
their iniquities, and the hardness of their hearts, and the
stiffness of their necks.
2 Nephi 25:Verse 13
13 Behold, they will crucify him; and after he is laid
in a sepulchre for the space of three days he shall rise from the
dead, with healing in his wings; and all those who shall believe on
his name shall be saved in the kingdom of God. Wherefore, my soul
delighteth to prophesy concerning him, for I have seen his day, and
my heart doth magnify his holy name.
2 Nephi 25:Verse 14
14 And behold it shall come to pass that after the
Messiah hath risen from the dead, and hath manifested himself unto
his people, unto as many as will believe on his name, behold,
Jerusalem shall be destroyed again; for wo unto them that fight
against God and the people of his church.
2 Nephi 25:Verse 15
15 Wherefore, the Jews shall be scattered among all
nations; yea, and also Babylon shall be destroyed; wherefore, the
Jews shall be scattered by other nations.
2 Nephi 25:Verse 16
16 And after they have been scattered, and the Lord God
hath scourged them by other nations for the space of many
generations, yea, even down from generation to generation until
they shall be persuaded to believe in Christ, the Son of God, and
the atonement, which is infinite for all mankind--and when that day
shall come that they shall believe in Christ, and worship the
Father in his name, with pure hearts and clean hands, and look not
forward any more for another Messiah, then, at that time, the day
will come that it must needs be expedient that they should believe
these things.
2 Nephi 25:Verse 17
17 And the Lord will set his hand again the second time
to restore his people from their lost and fallen state. Wherefore,
he will proceed to do a marvelous work and a wonder among the
children of men.
2 Nephi 25:Verse 18
18 Wherefore, he shall bring forth his words unto them,
which words shall judge them at the last day, for they shall be
given them for the purpose of convincing them of the true Messiah,
who was rejected by them; and unto the convincing of them that they
need not look forward any more for a Messiah to come, for there
should not any come, save it should be a false Messiah which should
deceive the people; for there is save one Messiah spoken of by the
prophets, and that Messiah is he who should be rejected of the
Jews.
2 Nephi 25:Verse 19
19 For according to the words of the prophets, the
Messiah cometh in six hundred years from the time that my father
left Jerusalem; and according to the words of the prophets, and
also the word of the angel of God, his name shall be Jesus Christ,
the Son of God.
2 Nephi 25:Verse 20
20 And now, my brethren, I have spoken plainly that ye
cannot err. And as the Lord God liveth that brought Israel up out
of the land of Egypt, and gave unto Moses power that he should heal
the nations after they had been bitten by the poisonous serpents,
if they would cast their eyes unto the serpent which he did raise
up before them, and also gave him power that he should smite the
rock and the water should come forth; yea, behold I say unto you,
that as these things are true, and as the Lord God liveth, there is
none other name given under heaven save it be this Jesus Christ, of
which I have spoken, whereby man can be saved.
2 Nephi 25:Verse 21
21 Wherefore, for this cause hath the Lord God promised
unto me that these things which I write shall be kept and
preserved, and handed down unto my seed, from generation to
generation, that the promise may be fulfilled unto Joseph, that his
seed should never perish as long as the earth should stand.
2 Nephi 25:Verse 22
22 Wherefore, these things shall go from generation to
generation as long as the earth shall stand; and they shall go
according to the will and pleasure of God; and the nations who
shall possess them shall be judged of them according to the words
which are written.
2 Nephi 25:Verse 23
23 For we labor diligently to write, to persuade our
children, and also our brethren, to believe in Christ, and to be
reconciled to God; for we know that it is by grace that we are
saved, after all we can do.
2 Nephi 25:Verse 24
24 And, notwithstanding we believe in Christ, we keep
the law of Moses, and look forward with steadfastness unto Christ,
until the law shall be fulfilled.
2 Nephi 25:Verse 25
25 For, for this end was the law given; wherefore the
law hath become dead unto us, and we are made alive in Christ
because of our faith; yet we keep the law because of the
commandments.
2 Nephi 25:Verse 26
26 And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we
preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to
our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may
look for a remission of their sins.
2 Nephi 25:Verse 27
27 Wherefore, we speak concerning the law that our
children may know the deadness of the law; and they, by knowing the
deadness of the law, may look forward unto that life which is in
Christ, and know for what end the law was given. And after the law
is fulfilled in Christ, that they need not harden their hearts
against him when the law ought to be done away.
2 Nephi 25:Verse 28
28 And now behold, my people, ye are a stiffnecked
people; wherefore, I have spoken plainly unto you, that ye cannot
misunderstand. And the words which I have spoken shall stand as a
testimony against you; for they are sufficient to teach any man the
right way; for the right way is to believe in Christ and deny him
not; for by denying him ye also deny the prophets and the
law.
2 Nephi 25:Verse 29
29 And now behold, I say unto you that the right way is
to believe in Christ, and deny him not; and Christ is the Holy One
of Israel; wherefore ye must bow down before him, and worship him
with all your might, mind, and strength, and your whole soul; and
if ye do this ye shall in nowise be cast out.
2 Nephi 25:Verse 30
30 And, inasmuch as it shall be expedient, ye must keep
the performances and ordinances of God until the law shall be
fulfilled which was given unto Moses.
Chapter 26
2 Nephi 26:Verse 1
1 AND after Christ shall have risen from the dead he
shall show himself unto you, my children, and my beloved brethren;
and the words which he shall speak unto you shall be the law which
ye shall do.
2 Nephi 26:Verse 2
2 For behold, I say unto you that I have beheld that
many generations shall pass away, and there shall be great wars and
contentions among my people.
2 Nephi 26:Verse 3
3 And after the Messiah shall come there shall be signs
given unto my people of his birth, and also of his death and
resurrection; and great and terrible shall that day be unto the
wicked, for they shall perish; and they perish because they cast
out the prophets, and the saints, and stone them, and slay them;
wherefore the cry of the blood of the saints shall ascend up to God
from the ground against them.
2 Nephi 26:Verse 4
4 Wherefore, all those who are proud, and that do
wickedly, the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of
Hosts, for they shall be as stubble.
2 Nephi 26:Verse 5
5 And they that kill the prophets, and the saints, the
depths of the earth shall swallow them up, saith the Lord of Hosts;
and mountains shall cover them, and whirlwinds shall carry them
away, and buildings shall fall upon them and crush them to pieces
and grind them to powder.
2 Nephi 26:Verse 6
6 And they shall be visited with thunderings, and
lightnings, and earthquakes, and all manner of destructions, for
the fire of the anger of the Lord shall be kindled against them,
and they shall be as stubble, and the day that cometh shall consume
them, saith the Lord of Hosts.
2 Nephi 26:Verse 7
7 O the pain, and the anguish of my soul for the loss
of the slain of my people! For I, Nephi, have seen it, and it well
nigh consumeth me before the presence of the Lord; but I must cry
unto my God: Thy ways are just.
2 Nephi 26:Verse 8
8 But behold, the righteous that hearken unto the words
of the prophets, and destroy them not, but look forward unto Christ
with steadfastness for the signs which are given, notwithstanding
all persecution--behold, they are they which shall not
perish.
2 Nephi 26:Verse 9
9 But the Son of righteousness shall appear unto them;
and he shall heal them, and they shall have peace with him, until
three generations shall have passed away, and many of the fourth
generation shall have passed away in righteousness.
2 Nephi 26:Verse 10
10 And when these things have passed away a speedy
destruction cometh unto my people; for, notwithstanding the pains
of my soul, I have seen it; wherefore, I know that it shall come to
pass; and they sell themselves for naught; for, for the reward of
their pride and their foolishness they shall reap destruction; for
because they yield unto the devil and choose works of darkness
rather than light, therefore they must go down to hell.
2 Nephi 26:Verse 11
11 For the Spirit of the Lord will not always strive
with man. And when the Spirit ceaseth to strive with man then
cometh speedy destruction, and this grieveth my soul.
2 Nephi 26:Verse 12
12 And as I spake concerning the convincing of the
Jews, that Jesus is the very Christ, it must needs be that the
Gentiles be convinced also that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal
God;
2 Nephi 26:Verse 13
13 And that he manifesteth himself unto all those who
believe in him, by the power of the Holy Ghost; yea, unto every
nation, kindred, tongue, and people, working mighty miracles,
signs, and wonders, among the children of men according to their
faith.
2 Nephi 26:Verse 14
14 But behold, I prophesy unto you concerning the last
days; concerning the days when the Lord God shall bring these
things forth unto the children of men.
2 Nephi 26:Verse 15
15 After my seed and the seed of my brethren shall have
dwindled in unbelief, and shall have been smitten by the Gentiles;
yea, after the Lord God shall have camped against them round about,
and shall have laid siege against them with a mount, and raised
forts against them; and after they shall have been brought down low
in the dust, even that they are not, yet the words of the righteous
shall be written, and the prayers of the faithful shall be heard,
and all those who have dwindled in unbelief shall not be
forgotten.
2 Nephi 26:Verse 16
16 For those who shall be destroyed shall speak unto
them out of the ground, and their speech shall be low out of the
dust, and their voice shall be as one that hath a familiar spirit;
for the Lord God will give unto him power, that he may whisper
concerning them, even as it were out of the ground; and their
speech shall whisper out of the dust.
2 Nephi 26:Verse 17
17 For thus saith the Lord God: They shall write the
things which shall be done among them, and they shall be written
and sealed up in a book, and those who have dwindled in unbelief
shall not have them, for they seek to destroy the things of
God.
2 Nephi 26:Verse 18
18 Wherefore, as those who have been destroyed have
been destroyed speedily; and the multitude of their terrible ones
shall be as chaff that passeth away--yea, thus saith the Lord God:
It shall be at an instant, suddenly--
2 Nephi 26:Verse 19
19 And it shall come to pass, that those who have
dwindled in unbelief shall be smitten by the hand of the
Gentiles.
2 Nephi 26:Verse 20
20 And the Gentiles are lifted up in the pride of their
eyes, and have stumbled, because of the greatness of their
stumbling block, that they have built up many churches;
nevertheless, they put down the power and miracles of God, and
preach up unto themselves their own wisdom and their own learning,
that they may get gain and grind upon the face of the poor.
2 Nephi 26:Verse 21
21 And there are many churches built up which cause
envyings, and strifes, and malice.
2 Nephi 26:Verse 22
22 And there are also secret combinations, even as in
times of old, according to the combinations of the devil, for he is
the founder of all these things; yea, the founder of murder, and
works of darkness; yea, and he leadeth them by the neck with a
flaxen cord, until he bindeth them with his strong cords
forever.
2 Nephi 26:Verse 23
23 For behold, my beloved brethren, I say unto you that
the Lord God worketh not in darkness.
2 Nephi 26:Verse 24
24 He doeth not anything save it be for the benefit of
the world; for he loveth the world, even that he layeth down his
own life that he may draw all men unto him. Wherefore, he
commandeth none that they shall not partake of his salvation.
2 Nephi 26:Verse 25
25 Behold, doth he cry unto any, saying: Depart from
me? Behold, I say unto you, Nay; but he saith: Come unto me all ye
ends of the earth, buy milk and honey, without money and without
price.
2 Nephi 26:Verse 26
26 Behold, hath he commanded any that they should
depart out of the synagogues, or out of the houses of worship?
Behold, I say unto you, Nay.
2 Nephi 26:Verse 27
27 Hath he commanded any that they should not partake
of his salvation? Behold I say unto you, Nay; but he hath given it
free for all men; and he hath commanded his people that they should
persuade all men to repentance.
2 Nephi 26:Verse 28
28 Behold, hath the Lord commanded any that they should
not partake of his goodness? Behold I say unto you, Nay; but all
men are privileged the one like unto the other, and none are
forbidden.
2 Nephi 26:Verse 29
29 He commandeth that there shall be no priestcrafts;
for, behold, priestcrafts are that men preach and set themselves up
for a light unto the world, that they may get gain and praise of
the world; but they seek not the welfare of Zion.
2 Nephi 26:Verse 30
30 Behold, the Lord hath forbidden this thing;
wherefore, the Lord God hath given a commandment that all men
should have charity, which charity is love. And except they should
have charity they were nothing. Wherefore, if they should have
charity they would not suffer the laborer in Zion to perish.
2 Nephi 26:Verse 31
31 But the laborer in Zion shall labor for Zion; for if
they labor for money they shall perish.
2 Nephi 26:Verse 32
32 And again, the Lord God hath commanded that men
should not murder; that they should not lie; that they should not
steal; that they should not take the name of the Lord their God in
vain; that they should not envy; that they should not have malice;
that they should not contend one with another; that they should not
commit whoredoms; and that they should do none of these things; for
whoso doeth them shall perish.
2 Nephi 26:Verse 33
33 For none of these iniquities come of the Lord; for
he doeth that which is good among the children of men; and he doeth
nothing save it be plain unto the children of men; and he inviteth
them all to come unto him and partake of his goodness; and he
denieth none that come unto him, black and white, bond and free,
male and female; and he remembereth the heathen; and all are alike
unto God, both Jew and Gentile.
Chapter 27
2 Nephi 27:Verse 1
1 But, behold, in the last days, or in the days of the
Gentiles--yea, behold all the nations of the Gentiles and also the
Jews, both those who shall come upon this land and those who shall
be upon other lands, yea, even upon all the lands of the earth,
behold, they will be drunken with iniquity and all manner of
abominations--
2 Nephi 27:Verse 2
2 And when that day shall come they shall be visited of
the Lord of Hosts, with thunder and with earthquake, and with a
great noise, and with storm, and with tempest, and with the flame
of devouring fire.
2 Nephi 27:Verse 3
3 And all the nations that fight against Zion, and that
distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision; yea, it shall
be unto them, even as unto a hungry man which dreameth, and behold
he eateth but he awaketh and his soul is empty; or like unto a
thirsty man which dreameth, and behold he drinketh but he awaketh
and behold he is faint, and his soul hath appetite; yea, even so
shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount
Zion.
2 Nephi 27:Verse 4
4 For behold, all ye that doeth iniquity, stay
yourselves and wonder, for ye shall cry out, and cry; yea, ye shall
be drunken but not with wine, ye shall stagger but not with strong
drink.
2 Nephi 27:Verse 5
5 For behold, the Lord hath poured out upon you the
spirit of deep sleep. For behold, ye have closed your eyes, and ye
have rejected the prophets; and your rulers, and the seers hath he
covered because of your iniquity.
2 Nephi 27:Verse 6
6 And it shall come to pass that the Lord God shall
bring forth unto you the words of a book, and they shall be the
words of them which have slumbered.
2 Nephi 27:Verse 7
7 And behold the book shall be sealed; and in the book
shall be a revelation from God, from the beginning of the world to
the ending thereof.
2 Nephi 27:Verse 8
8 Wherefore, because of the things which are sealed up,
the things which are sealed shall not be delivered in the day of
the wickedness and abominations of the people. Wherefore the book
shall be kept from them.
2 Nephi 27:Verse 9
9 But the book shall be delivered unto a man, and he
shall deliver the words of the book, which are the words of those
who have slumbered in the dust, and he shall deliver these words
unto another;
2 Nephi 27:Verse 10
10 But the words which are sealed he shall not deliver,
neither shall he deliver the book. For the book shall be sealed by
the power of God, and the revelation which was sealed shall be kept
in the book until the own due time of the Lord, that they may come
forth; for behold, they reveal all things from the foundation of
the world unto the end thereof.
2 Nephi 27:Verse 11
11 And the day cometh that the words of the book which
were sealed shall be read upon the house tops; and they shall be
read by the power of Christ; and all things shall be revealed unto
the children of men which ever have been among the children of men,
and which ever will be even unto the end of the earth.
2 Nephi 27:Verse 12
12 Wherefore, at that day when the book shall be
delivered unto the man of whom I have spoken, the book shall be hid
from the eyes of the world, that the eyes of none shall behold it
save it be that three witnesses shall behold it, by the power of
God, besides him to whom the book shall be delivered; and they
shall testify to the truth of the book and the things
therein.
2 Nephi 27:Verse 13
13 And there is none other which shall view it, save it
be a few according to the will of God, to bear testimony of his
word unto the children of men; for the Lord God hath said that the
words of the faithful should speak as if it were from the
dead.
2 Nephi 27:Verse 14
14 Wherefore, the Lord God will proceed to bring forth
the words of the book; and in the mouth of as many witnesses as
seemeth him good will he establish his word; and wo be unto him
that rejecteth the word of God!
2 Nephi 27:Verse 15
15 But behold, it shall come to pass that the Lord God
shall say unto him to whom he shall deliver the book: Take these
words which are not sealed and deliver them to another, that he may
show them unto the learned, saying: Read this, I pray thee. And the
learned shall say: Bring hither the book, and I will read
them.
2 Nephi 27:Verse 16
16 And now, because of the glory of the world and to
get gain will they say this, and not for the glory of God.
2 Nephi 27:Verse 17
17 And the man shall say: I cannot bring the book, for
it is sealed.
2 Nephi 27:Verse 18
18 Then shall the learned say: I cannot read it.
2 Nephi 27:Verse 19
19 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that the Lord God
will deliver again the book and the words thereof to him that is
not learned; and the man that is not learned shall say: I am not
learned.
2 Nephi 27:Verse 20
20 Then shall the Lord God say unto him: The learned
shall not read them, for they have rejected them, and I am able to
do mine own work; wherefore thou shalt read the words which I shall
give unto thee.
2 Nephi 27:Verse 21
21 Touch not the things which are sealed, for I will
bring them forth in mine own due time; for I will show unto the
children of men that I am able to do mine own work.
2 Nephi 27:Verse 22
22 Wherefore, when thou hast read the words which I
have commanded thee, and obtained the witnesses which I have
promised unto thee, then shalt thou seal up the book again, and
hide it up unto me, that I may preserve the words which thou hast
not read, until I shall see fit in mine own wisdom to reveal all
things unto the children of men.
2 Nephi 27:Verse 23
23 For behold, I am God; and I am a God of miracles;
and I will show unto the world that I am the same yesterday, today,
and forever; and I work not among the children of men save it be
according to their faith.
2 Nephi 27:Verse 24
24 And again it shall come to pass that the Lord shall
say unto him that shall read the words that shall be delivered
him:
2 Nephi 27:Verse 25
25 Forasmuch as this people draw near unto me with
their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed
their hearts far from me, and their fear towards me is taught by
the precepts of men--
2 Nephi 27:Verse 26
26 Therefore, I will proceed to do a marvelous work
among this people, yea, a marvelous work and a wonder, for the
wisdom of their wise and learned shall perish, and the
understanding of their prudent shall be hid.
2 Nephi 27:Verse 27
27 And wo unto them that seek deep to hide their
counsel from the Lord! And their works are in the dark; and they
say: Who seeth us, and who knoweth us? And they also say: Surely,
your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the
potter's clay. But behold, I will show unto them, saith the Lord of
Hosts, that I know all their works. For shall the work say of him
that made it, he made me not? Or shall the thing framed say of him
that framed it, he had no understanding?
2 Nephi 27:Verse 28
28 But behold, saith the Lord of Hosts: I will show
unto the children of men that it is yet a very little while and
Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field; and the fruitful
field shall be esteemed as a forest.
2 Nephi 27:Verse 29
29 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the
book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out
of darkness.
2 Nephi 27:Verse 30
30 And the meek also shall increase, and their joy
shall be in the Lord, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the
Holy One of Israel.
2 Nephi 27:Verse 31
31 For assuredly as the Lord liveth they shall see that
the terrible one is brought to naught, and the scorner is consumed,
and all that watch for iniquity are cut off;
2 Nephi 27:Verse 32
32 And they that make a man an offender for a word, and
lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the
just for a thing of naught.
2 Nephi 27:Verse 33
33 Therefore, thus saith the Lord, who redeemed
Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: Jacob shall not now be
ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
2 Nephi 27:Verse 34
34 But when he seeth his children, the work of my
hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and
sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of
Israel.
2 Nephi 27:Verse 35
35 They also that erred in spirit shall come to
understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
Chapter 28
2 Nephi 28:Verse 1
1 AND now, behold, my brethren, I have spoken unto you,
according as the Spirit hath constrained me; wherefore, I know that
they must surely come to pass.
2 Nephi 28:Verse 2
2 And the things which shall be written out of the book
shall be of great worth unto the children of men, and especially
unto our seed, which is a remnant of the house of Israel.
2 Nephi 28:Verse 3
3 For it shall come to pass in that day that the
churches which are built up, and not unto the Lord, when the one
shall say unto the other: Behold, I, I am the Lord's; and the
others shall say: I, I am the Lord's; and thus shall every one say
that hath built up churches, and not unto the Lord--
2 Nephi 28:Verse 4
4 And they shall contend one with another; and their
priests shall contend one with another, and they shall teach with
their learning, and deny the Holy Ghost, which giveth
utterance.
2 Nephi 28:Verse 5
5 And they deny the power of God, the Holy One of
Israel; and they say unto the people: Hearken unto us, and hear ye
our precept; for behold there is no God today, for the Lord and the
Redeemer hath done his work, and he hath given his power unto
men;
2 Nephi 28:Verse 6
6 Behold, hearken ye unto my precept; if they shall say
there is a miracle wrought by the hand of the Lord, believe it not;
for this day he is not a God of miracles; he hath done his
work.
2 Nephi 28:Verse 7
7 Yea, and there shall be many which shall say: Eat,
drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die; and it shall be well with
us.
2 Nephi 28:Verse 8
8 And there shall also be many which shall say: Eat,
drink, and be merry; nevertheless, fear God--he will justify in
committing a little sin; yea, lie a little, take the advantage of
one because of his words, dig a pit for thy neighbor; there is no
harm in this; and do all these things, for tomorrow we die; and if
it so be that we are guilty, God will beat us with a few stripes,
and at last we shall be saved in the kingdom of God.
2 Nephi 28:Verse 9
9 Yea, and there shall be many which shall teach after
this manner, false and vain and foolish doctrines, and shall be
puffed up in their hearts, and shall seek deep to hide their
counsels from the Lord; and their works shall be in the dark.
2 Nephi 28:Verse 10
10 And the blood of the saints shall cry from the
ground against them.
2 Nephi 28:Verse 11
11 Yea, they have all gone out of the way; they have
become corrupted.
2 Nephi 28:Verse 12
12 Because of pride, and because of false teachers, and
false doctrine, their churches have become corrupted, and their
churches are lifted up; because of pride they are puffed up.
2 Nephi 28:Verse 13
13 They rob the poor because of their fine sanctuaries;
they rob the poor because of their fine clothing; and they
persecute the meek and the poor in heart, because in their pride
they are puffed up.
2 Nephi 28:Verse 14
14 They wear stiff necks and high heads; yea, and
because of pride, and wickedness, and abominations, and whoredoms,
they have all gone astray save it be a few, who are the humble
followers of Christ; nevertheless, they are led, that in many
instances they do err because they are taught by the precepts of
men.
2 Nephi 28:Verse 15
15 O the wise, and the learned, and the rich, that are
puffed up in the pride of their hearts, and all those who preach
false doctrines, and all those who commit whoredoms, and pervert
the right way of the Lord, wo, wo, wo be unto them, saith the Lord
God Almighty, for they shall be thrust down to hell!
2 Nephi 28:Verse 16
16 Wo unto them that turn aside the just for a thing of
naught and revile against that which is good, and say that it is of
no worth! For the day shall come that the Lord God will speedily
visit the inhabitants of the earth; and in that day that they are
fully ripe in iniquity they shall perish.
2 Nephi 28:Verse 17
17 But behold, if the inhabitants of the earth shall
repent of their wickedness and abominations they shall not be
destroyed, saith the Lord of Hosts.
2 Nephi 28:Verse 18
18 But behold, that great and abominable church, the
whore of all the earth, must tumble to the earth, and great must be
the fall thereof.
2 Nephi 28:Verse 19
19 For the kingdom of the devil must shake, and they
which belong to it must needs be stirred up unto repentance, or the
devil will grasp them with his everlasting chains, and they be
stirred up to anger, and perish;
2 Nephi 28:Verse 20
20 For behold, at that day shall he rage in the hearts
of the children of men, and stir them up to anger against that
which is good.
2 Nephi 28:Verse 21
21 And others will he pacify, and lull them away into
carnal security, that they will say: All is well in Zion; yea, Zion
prospereth, all is well--and thus the devil cheateth their souls,
and leadeth them away carefully down to hell.
2 Nephi 28:Verse 22
22 And behold, others he flattereth away, and telleth
them there is no hell; and he saith unto them: I am no devil, for
there is none--and thus he whispereth in their ears, until he
grasps them with his awful chains, from whence there is no
deliverance.
2 Nephi 28:Verse 23
23 Yea, they are grasped with death, and hell; and
death, and hell, and the devil, and all that have been seized
therewith must stand before the throne of God, and be judged
according to their works, from whence they must go into the place
prepared for them, even a lake of fire and brimstone, which is
endless torment.
2 Nephi 28:Verse 24
24 Therefore, wo be unto him that is at ease in
Zion!
2 Nephi 28:Verse 25
25 Wo be unto him that crieth: All is well!
2 Nephi 28:Verse 26
26 Yea, wo be unto him that hearkeneth unto the
precepts of men, and denieth the power of God, and the gift of the
Holy Ghost!
2 Nephi 28:Verse 27
27 Yea, wo be unto him that saith: We have received,
and we need no more!
2 Nephi 28:Verse 28
28 And in fine, wo unto all those who tremble, and are
angry because of the truth of God! For behold, he that is built
upon the rock receiveth it with gladness; and he that is built upon
a sandy foundation trembleth lest he shall fall.
2 Nephi 28:Verse 29
29 Wo be unto him that shall say: We have received the
word of God, and we need no more of the word of God, for we have
enough!
2 Nephi 28:Verse 30
30 For behold, thus saith the Lord God: I will give
unto the children of men line upon line, precept upon precept, here
a little and there a little; and blessed are those who hearken unto
my precepts, and lend an ear unto my counsel, for they shall learn
wisdom; for unto him that receiveth I will give more; and from them
that shall say, We have enough, from them shall be taken away even
that which they have.
2 Nephi 28:Verse 31
31 Cursed is he that putteth his trust in man, or
maketh flesh his arm, or shall hearken unto the precepts of men,
save their precepts shall be given by the power of the Holy
Ghost.
2 Nephi 28:Verse 32
32 Wo be unto the Gentiles, saith the Lord God of
Hosts! For notwithstanding I shall lengthen out mine arm unto them
from day to day, they will deny me; nevertheless, I will be
merciful unto them, saith the Lord God, if they will repent and
come unto me; for mine arm is lengthened out all the day long,
saith the Lord God of Hosts.
Chapter 29
2 Nephi 29:Verse 1
1 BUT behold, there shall be many--at that day when I
shall proceed to do a marvelous work among them, that I may
remember my covenants which I have made unto the children of men,
that I may set my hand again the second time to recover my people,
which are of the house of Israel;
2 Nephi 29:Verse 2
2 And also, that I may remember the promises which I
have made unto thee, Nephi, and also unto thy father, that I would
remember your seed; and that the words of your seed should proceed
forth out of my mouth unto your seed; and my words shall hiss forth
unto the ends of the earth, for a standard unto my people, which
are of the house of Israel;
2 Nephi 29:Verse 3
3 And because my words shall hiss forth--many of the
Gentiles shall say: A Bible! A Bible! We have got a Bible, and
there cannot be any more Bible.
2 Nephi 29:Verse 4
4 But thus saith the Lord God: O fools, they shall have
a Bible; and it shall proceed forth from the Jews, mine ancient
covenant people. And what thank they the Jews for the Bible which
they receive from them? Yea, what do the Gentiles mean? Do they
remember the travails, and the labors, and the pains of the Jews,
and their diligence unto me, in bringing forth salvation unto the
Gentiles?
2 Nephi 29:Verse 5
5 O ye Gentiles, have ye remembered the Jews, mine
ancient covenant people? Nay; but ye have cursed them, and have
hated them, and have not sought to recover them. But behold, I will
return all these things upon your own heads; for I the Lord have
not forgotten my people.
2 Nephi 29:Verse 6
6 Thou fool, that shall say: A Bible, we have got a
Bible, and we need no more Bible. Have ye obtained a Bible save it
were by the Jews?
2 Nephi 29:Verse 7
7 Know ye not that there are more nations than one?
Know ye not that I, the Lord your God, have created all men, and
that I remember those who are upon the isles of the sea; and that I
rule in the heavens above and in the earth beneath; and I bring
forth my word unto the children of men, yea, even upon all the
nations of the earth?
2 Nephi 29:Verse 8
8 Wherefore murmur ye, because that ye shall receive
more of my word? Know ye not that the testimony of two nations is a
witness unto you that I am God, that I remember one nation like
unto another? Wherefore, I speak the same words unto one nation
like unto another. And when the two nations shall run together the
testimony of the two nations shall run together also.
2 Nephi 29:Verse 9
9 And I do this that I may prove unto many that I am
the same yesterday, today, and forever; and that I speak forth my
words according to mine own pleasure. And because that I have
spoken one word ye need not suppose that I cannot speak another;
for my work is not yet finished; neither shall it be until the end
of man, neither from that time henceforth and forever.
2 Nephi 29:Verse 10
10 Wherefore, because that ye have a Bible ye need not
suppose that it contains all my words; neither need ye suppose that
I have not caused more to be written.
2 Nephi 29:Verse 11
11 For I command all men, both in the east and in the
west, and in the north, and in the south, and in the islands of the
sea, that they shall write the words which I speak unto them; for
out of the books which shall be written I will judge the world,
every man according to their works, according to that which is
written.
2 Nephi 29:Verse 12
12 For behold, I shall speak unto the Jews and they
shall write it; and I shall also speak unto the Nephites and they
shall write it; and I shall also speak unto the other tribes of the
house of Israel, which I have led away, and they shall write it;
and I shall also speak unto all nations of the earth and they shall
write it.
2 Nephi 29:Verse 13
13 And it shall come to pass that the Jews shall have
the words of the Nephites, and the Nephites shall have the words of
the Jews; and the Nephites and the Jews shall have the words of the
lost tribes of Israel; and the lost tribes of Israel shall have the
words of the Nephites and the Jews.
2 Nephi 29:Verse 14
14 And it shall come to pass that my people, which are
of the house of Israel, shall be gathered home unto the lands of
their possessions; and my word also shall be gathered in one. And I
will show unto them that fight against my word and against my
people, who are of the house of Israel, that I am God, and that I
covenanted with Abraham that I would remember his seed
forever.
Chapter 30
2 Nephi 30:Verse 1
1 AND now behold, my beloved brethren, I would speak
unto you; for I, Nephi, would not suffer that ye should suppose
that ye are more righteous than the Gentiles shall be. For behold,
except ye shall keep the commandments of God ye shall all likewise
perish; and because of the words which have been spoken ye need not
suppose that the Gentiles are utterly destroyed.
2 Nephi 30:Verse 2
2 For behold, I say unto you that as many of the
Gentiles as will repent are the covenant people of the Lord; and as
many of the Jews as will not repent shall be cast off; for the Lord
covenanteth with none save it be with them that repent and believe
in his Son, who is the Holy One of Israel.
2 Nephi 30:Verse 3
3 And now, I would prophesy somewhat more concerning
the Jews and the Gentiles. For after the book of which I have
spoken shall come forth, and be written unto the Gentiles, and
sealed up again unto the Lord, there shall be many which shall
believe the words which are written; and they shall carry them
forth unto the remnant of our seed.
2 Nephi 30:Verse 4
4 And then shall the remnant of our seed know
concerning us, how that we came out from Jerusalem, and that they
are descendants of the Jews.
2 Nephi 30:Verse 5
5 And the gospel of Jesus Christ shall be declared
among them; wherefore, they shall be restored unto the knowledge of
their fathers, and also to the knowledge of Jesus Christ, which was
had among their fathers.
2 Nephi 30:Verse 6
6 And then shall they rejoice; for they shall know that
it is a blessing unto them from the hand of God; and their scales
of darkness shall begin to fall from their eyes; and many
generations shall not pass away among them, save they shall be a
pure and a delightsome people.
2 Nephi 30:Verse 7
7 And it shall come to pass that the Jews which are
scattered also shall begin to believe in Christ; and they shall
begin to gather in upon the face of the land; and as many as shall
believe in Christ shall also become a delightsome people.
2 Nephi 30:Verse 8
8 And it shall come to pass that the Lord God shall
commence his work among all nations, kindreds, tongues, and people,
to bring about the restoration of his people upon the earth.
2 Nephi 30:Verse 9
9 And with righteousness shall the Lord God 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 30:Verse 10
10 For the time speedily cometh that the Lord God shall
cause a great division among the people, and the wicked will he
destroy; and he will spare his people, yea, even if it so be that
he must destroy the wicked by fire.
2 Nephi 30:Verse 11
11 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins,
and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
2 Nephi 30:Verse 12
12 And then shall the wolf dwell with the lamb; and the
leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf, and the young
lion, and the fatling, together; and a little child shall lead
them.
2 Nephi 30:Verse 13
13 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young
ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the
ox.
2 Nephi 30:Verse 14
14 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the
asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's
den.
2 Nephi 30:Verse 15
15 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 30:Verse 16
16 Wherefore, the things of all nations shall be made
known; yea, all things shall be made known unto the children of
men.
2 Nephi 30:Verse 17
17 There is nothing which is secret save it shall be
revealed; there is no work of darkness save it shall be made
manifest in the light; and there is nothing which is sealed upon
the earth save it shall be loosed.
2 Nephi 30:Verse 18
18 Wherefore, all things which have been revealed unto
the children of men shall at that day be revealed; and Satan shall
have power over the hearts of the children of men no more, for a
long time. And now, my beloved brethren, I make an end of my
sayings.
Chapter 31
2 Nephi 31:Verse 1
1 AND now I, Nephi, make an end of my prophesying unto
you, my beloved brethren. And I cannot write but a few things,
which I know must surely come to pass; neither can I write but a
few of the words of my brother Jacob.
2 Nephi 31:Verse 2
2 Wherefore, the things which I have written sufficeth
me, save it be a few words which I must speak concerning the
doctrine of Christ; wherefore, I shall speak unto you plainly,
according to the plainness of my prophesying.
2 Nephi 31:Verse 3
3 For my soul delighteth in plainness; for after this
manner doth the Lord God work among the children of men. For the
Lord God giveth light unto the understanding; for he speaketh unto
men according to their language, unto their understanding.
2 Nephi 31:Verse 4
4 Wherefore, I would that ye should remember that I
have spoken unto you concerning that prophet which the Lord showed
unto me, that should baptize the Lamb of God, which should take
away the sins of the world.
2 Nephi 31:Verse 5
5 And now, if the Lamb of God, he being holy, should
have need to be baptized by water, to fulfil all righteousness, O
then, how much more need have we, being unholy, to be baptized,
yea, even by water!
2 Nephi 31:Verse 6
6 And now, I would ask of you, my beloved brethren,
wherein the Lamb of God did fulfil all righteousness in being
baptized by water?
2 Nephi 31:Verse 7
7 Know ye not that he was holy? But notwithstanding he
being holy, he showeth unto the children of men that, according to
the flesh he humbleth himself before the Father, and witnesseth
unto the Father that he would be obedient unto him in keeping his
commandments.
2 Nephi 31:Verse 8
8 Wherefore, after he was baptized with water the Holy
Ghost descended upon him in the form of a dove.
2 Nephi 31:Verse 9
9 And again, it showeth unto the children of men the
straitness of the path, and the narrowness of the gate, by which
they should enter, he having set the example before them.
2 Nephi 31:Verse 10
10 And he said unto the children of men: Follow thou
me. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, can we follow Jesus save we
shall be willing to keep the commandments of the Father?
2 Nephi 31:Verse 11
11 And the Father said: Repent ye, repent ye, and be
baptized in the name of my Beloved Son.
2 Nephi 31:Verse 12
12 And also, the voice of the Son came unto me, saying:
He that is baptized in my name, to him will the Father give the
Holy Ghost, like unto me; wherefore, follow me, and do the things
which ye have seen me do.
2 Nephi 31:Verse 13
13 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, I know that if ye
shall follow the Son, with full purpose of heart, acting no
hypocrisy and no deception before God, but with real intent,
repenting of your sins, witnessing unto the Father that ye are
willing to take upon you the name of Christ, by baptism--yea, by
following your Lord and your Savior down into the water, according
to his word, behold, then shall ye receive the Holy Ghost; yea,
then cometh the baptism of fire and of the Holy Ghost; and then can
ye speak with the tongue of angels, and shout praises unto the Holy
One of Israel.
2 Nephi 31:Verse 14
14 But, behold, my beloved brethren, thus came the
voice of the Son unto me, saying: After ye have repented of your
sins, and witnessed unto the Father that ye are willing to keep my
commandments, by the baptism of water, and have received the
baptism of fire and of the Holy Ghost, and can speak with a new
tongue, yea, even with the tongue of angels, and after this should
deny me, it would have been better for you that ye had not known
me.
2 Nephi 31:Verse 15
15 And I heard a voice from the Father, saying: Yea,
the words of my Beloved are true and faithful. He that endureth to
the end, the same shall be saved.
2 Nephi 31:Verse 16
16 And now, my beloved brethren, I know by this that
unless a man shall endure to the end, in following the example of
the Son of the living God, he cannot be saved.
2 Nephi 31:Verse 17
17 Wherefore, do the things which I have told you I
have seen that your Lord and your Redeemer should do; for, for this
cause have they been shown unto me, that ye might know the gate by
which ye should enter. For the gate by which ye should enter is
repentance and baptism by water; and then cometh a remission of
your sins by fire and by the Holy Ghost.
2 Nephi 31:Verse 18
18 And then are ye in this strait and narrow path which
leads to eternal life; yea, ye have entered in by the gate; ye have
done according to the commandments of the Father and the Son; and
ye have received the Holy Ghost, which witnesses of the Father and
the Son, unto the fulfilling of the promise which he hath made,
that if ye entered in by the way ye should receive.
2 Nephi 31:Verse 19
19 And now, my beloved brethren, after ye have gotten
into this strait and narrow path, I would ask if all is done?
Behold, I say unto you, Nay; for ye have not come thus far save it
were by the word of Christ with unshaken faith in him, relying
wholly upon the merits of him who is mighty to save.
2 Nephi 31:Verse 20
20 Wherefore, ye must press forward with a
steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a
love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward,
feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold,
thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life.
2 Nephi 31:Verse 21
21 And now, behold, my beloved brethren, this is the
way; and there is none other way nor name given under heaven
whereby man can be saved in the kingdom of God. And now, behold,
this is the doctrine of Christ, and the only and true doctrine of
the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, which is one
God, without end. Amen.
Chapter 32
2 Nephi 32:Verse 1
1 AND now, behold, my beloved brethren, I suppose that
ye ponder somewhat in your hearts concerning that which ye should
do after ye have entered in by the way. But, behold, why do ye
ponder these things in your hearts?
2 Nephi 32:Verse 2
2 Do ye not remember that I said unto you that after ye
had received the Holy Ghost ye could speak with the tongue of
angels? And now, how could ye speak with the tongue of angels save
it were by the Holy Ghost?
2 Nephi 32:Verse 3
3 Angels speak by the power of the Holy Ghost;
wherefore, they speak the words of Christ. Wherefore, I said unto
you, feast upon the words of Christ; for behold, the words of
Christ will tell you all things what ye should do.
2 Nephi 32:Verse 4
4 Wherefore, now after I have spoken these words, if ye
cannot understand them it will be because ye ask not, neither do ye
knock; wherefore, ye are not brought into the light, but must
perish in the dark.
2 Nephi 32:Verse 5
5 For behold, again I say unto you that if ye will
enter in by the way, and receive the Holy Ghost, it will show unto
you all things what ye should do.
2 Nephi 32:Verse 6
6 Behold, this is the doctrine of Christ, and there
will be no more doctrine given until after he shall manifest
himself unto you in the flesh. And when he shall manifest himself
unto you in the flesh, the things which he shall say unto you shall
ye observe to do.
2 Nephi 32:Verse 7
7 And now I, Nephi, cannot say more; the Spirit
stoppeth mine utterance, and I am left to mourn because of the
unbelief, and the wickedness, and the ignorance, and the
stiffneckedness of men; for they will not search knowledge, nor
understand great knowledge, when it is given unto them in
plainness, even as plain as word can be.
2 Nephi 32:Verse 8
8 And now, my beloved brethren, I perceive that ye
ponder still in your hearts; and it grieveth me that I must speak
concerning this thing. For if ye would hearken unto the Spirit
which teacheth a man to pray ye would know that ye must pray; for
the evil spirit teacheth not a man to pray, but teacheth him that
he must not pray.
2 Nephi 32:Verse 9
9 But behold, I say unto you that ye must pray always,
and not faint; that ye must not perform any thing unto the Lord
save in the first place ye shall pray unto the Father in the name
of Christ, that he will consecrate thy performance unto thee, that
thy performance may be for the welfare of thy soul.
Chapter 33
2 Nephi 33:Verse 1
1 AND now I, Nephi, cannot write all the things which
were taught among my people; neither am I mighty in writing, like
unto speaking; for when a man speaketh by the power of the Holy
Ghost the power of the Holy Ghost carrieth it unto the hearts of
the children of men.
2 Nephi 33:Verse 2
2 But behold, there are many that harden their hearts
against the Holy Spirit, that it hath no place in them; wherefore,
they cast many things away which are written and esteem them as
things of naught.
2 Nephi 33:Verse 3
3 But I, Nephi, have written what I have written, and I
esteem it as of great worth, and especially unto my people. For I
pray continually for them by day, and mine eyes water my pillow by
night, because of them; and I cry unto my God in faith, and I know
that he will hear my cry.
2 Nephi 33:Verse 4
4 And I know that the Lord God will consecrate my
prayers for the gain of my people. And the words which I have
written in weakness will be made strong unto them; for it
persuadeth them to do good; it maketh known unto them of their
fathers; and it speaketh of Jesus, and persuadeth them to believe
in him, and to endure to the end, which is life eternal.
2 Nephi 33:Verse 5
5 And it speaketh harshly against sin, according to the
plainness of the truth; wherefore, no man will be angry at the
words which I have written save he shall be of the spirit of the
devil.
2 Nephi 33:Verse 6
6 I glory in plainness; I glory in truth; I glory in my
Jesus, for he hath redeemed my soul from hell.
2 Nephi 33:Verse 7
7 I have charity for my people, and great faith in
Christ that I shall meet many souls spotless at his
judgment-seat.
2 Nephi 33:Verse 8
8 I have charity for the Jew--I say Jew, because I mean
them from whence I came.
2 Nephi 33:Verse 9
9 I also have charity for the Gentiles. But behold, for
none of these can I hope except they shall be reconciled unto
Christ, and enter into the narrow gate, and walk in the strait path
which leads to life, and continue in the path until the end of the
day of probation.
2 Nephi 33:Verse 10
10 And now, my beloved brethren, and also Jew, and all
ye ends of the earth, hearken unto these words and believe in
Christ; and if ye believe not in these words believe in Christ. And
if ye shall believe in Christ ye will believe in these words, for
they are the words of Christ, and he hath given them unto me; and
they teach all men that they should do good.
2 Nephi 33:Verse 11
11 And if they are not the words of Christ, judge
ye--for Christ will show unto you, with power and great glory, that
they are his words, at the last day; and you and I shall stand face
to face before his bar; and ye shall know that I have been
commanded of him to write these things, notwithstanding my
weakness.
2 Nephi 33:Verse 12
12 And I pray the Father in the name of Christ that
many of us, if not all, may be saved in his kingdom at that great
and last day.
2 Nephi 33:Verse 13
13 And now, my beloved brethren, all those who are of
the house of Israel, and all ye ends of the earth, I speak unto you
as the voice of one crying from the dust: Farewell until that great
day shall come.
2 Nephi 33:Verse 14
14 And you that will not partake of the goodness of
God, and respect the words of the Jews, and also my words, and the
words which shall proceed forth out of the mouth of the Lamb of
God, behold, I bid you an everlasting farewell, for these words
shall condemn you at the last day.
2 Nephi 33:Verse 15
15 For what I seal on earth, shall be brought against
you at the judgment bar; for thus hath the Lord commanded me, and I
must obey. Amen.