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2 Nephi 8:83 - 2 Nephi 8:93


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83 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.

84 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.

85 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:

86 But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.

87 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

88 Wo unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart-rope;

89 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.

90 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!

91 Wo unto the wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

92 Wo unto the mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

93 Who justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

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