RLDS Verse Context

Inspired Version, 1908 Book of Mormon, DC 1-144

2 Nephi 5:97 - 2 Nephi 5:107


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97 The captive exile hasteneth, that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.

98 But I am the Lord thy God, whose waves roared: the Lord of hosts is my name.

99 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.

100 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury;

101 Thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling wrung out;

102 And none to guide her among all the sons she hath brought forth;

103 Neither that taketh her by the hand, of all the sons she hath brought up.

104 These two sons are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee: thy desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword:

105 And by whom shall I comfort thee?

106 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.

107 Therefore, hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, and not with wine:

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