if the staff should lift up itself as if it were no wood!
2 Nephi 20:16
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 20:17
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 20:18
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 20:19
19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
2 Nephi 20:20
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 20:21
21 The remnant shall return, yea, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
2 Nephi 20:22
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 20:23
23 For the Lord God of Hosts shall make a consumption, even determined in all the land.
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2 Nephi 20:24
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 20:25
25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
2 Nephi 20:26
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 20:27
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 20:28
28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages.
2 Nephi 20:29
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 20:30
30 Lift up the voice, O daughter of Gallim; cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
2 Nephi 20:31
31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather
themselves to flee.
2 Nephi 20:32
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 20:33
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 20:34
34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forests with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
2 Nephi 21 Chapter 21
2 Nephi 21:1
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 21:2
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 21:3
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 21:4
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.
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2 Nephi 21:5
5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
2 Nephi 21:6
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 21:7
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 21:8
8 And the suckling child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's den.
2 Nephi 21:9
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 21:10
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 21:11
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 21:12
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 21:13
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 21:14
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 21:15
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 21:16
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.
2 Nephi 22 Chapter 22
2 Nephi 22:1
1 And in that