RLDS Verse Context
Inspired Version, 1908 Book of Mormon, DC 1-144
1 Nephi 5:243 - 1 Nephi 5:253
243 Which should be a sign given of his death, unto those who should inhabit the isles of the sea;
244 More especially given unto those who are of the house of Israel.
245 For thus spake the prophet, The Lord God surely shall visit all the house of Israel at that day;
246 Some with his voice, because of their righteousness, unto their great joy and salvation;
247 And others with the thunderings and the lightnings of his power, by tempest, by fire, and by smoke, and vapor of darkness, and by the opening of the earth, and by mountains which shall be carried up;
248 And all these things must surely come, saith the prophet Zenos.
249 And the rocks of the earth must rend;
250 And because of the groanings of the earth, many of the kings of the isles of the sea shall be wrought upon by the Spirit of God, to exclaim, The God of nature suffers.
251 And as for those who are at Jerusalem, saith the prophet, they shall be scourged by all people, because they crucify the God of Israel, and turn their hearts aside, rejecting signs and wonders, and power and glory of the God of Israel;
252 And because they turn their hearts aside, saith the prophet, and have despised the Holy One of Israel, they shall wander in the flesh, and perish, and become a hiss and a byword, and be hated among all nations;
253 Nevertheless, when that day cometh, saith the prophet, that they no more turn aside their hearts against the Holy One of Israel, then will he remember the covenants which he made to their fathers;
244 More especially given unto those who are of the house of Israel.
245 For thus spake the prophet, The Lord God surely shall visit all the house of Israel at that day;
246 Some with his voice, because of their righteousness, unto their great joy and salvation;
247 And others with the thunderings and the lightnings of his power, by tempest, by fire, and by smoke, and vapor of darkness, and by the opening of the earth, and by mountains which shall be carried up;
248 And all these things must surely come, saith the prophet Zenos.
249 And the rocks of the earth must rend;
250 And because of the groanings of the earth, many of the kings of the isles of the sea shall be wrought upon by the Spirit of God, to exclaim, The God of nature suffers.
251 And as for those who are at Jerusalem, saith the prophet, they shall be scourged by all people, because they crucify the God of Israel, and turn their hearts aside, rejecting signs and wonders, and power and glory of the God of Israel;
252 And because they turn their hearts aside, saith the prophet, and have despised the Holy One of Israel, they shall wander in the flesh, and perish, and become a hiss and a byword, and be hated among all nations;
253 Nevertheless, when that day cometh, saith the prophet, that they no more turn aside their hearts against the Holy One of Israel, then will he remember the covenants which he made to their fathers;