fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
2 Nephi 18:22
22 And they shall look unto the earth and behold trouble, and darkness, dimness of anguish, and shall be driven to darkness.
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2 Nephi 19 Chapter 19
2 Nephi 19:1
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 19:2
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 19:3
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 19:4
4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor.
2 Nephi 19:5
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 19:6
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 19:7
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 19:8
8 The Lord sent his word unto Jacob and it hath lighted upon
Israel.
2 Nephi 19:9
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 19:10
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 19:11
11 Therefore the Lord shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;
2 Nephi 19:12
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 19:13
13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord of Hosts.
2 Nephi 19:14
14 Therefore will the Lord cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush in one day.
2 Nephi 19:15
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15 The ancient, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
2 Nephi 19:16
16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
2 Nephi 19:17
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 19:18
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 19:19
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 19:20
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 19:21
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.
2 Nephi 20 Chapter 20
2 Nephi 20:1
1 Wo unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
2 Nephi 20:2
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 20:3
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 20:4
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 20:5
5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is their indignation.
2 Nephi 20:6
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 20:7
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 20:8
8 For he saith: Are not my princes altogether kings?
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9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not
Samaria as Damascus?
2 Nephi 20:10
10 As my hand hath founded the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
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11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and to her idols?
2 Nephi 20:12
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 20:13
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 20:14
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 20:15