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  First Nephi, Chapters twenty through twenty two. Chapter twenty, hearken and hear
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  this o house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel,
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  and are come forth out of the waters of Judah or out of the waters
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  of Baptism, who swear by the name of the Lord and make mention of
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  the God of Israel. Yet they swear not in truth nor in righteousness.
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  Nevertheless, they call themselves of the Holy City. But they do not stay
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  themselves upon the God of Israel, who is the Lord of hosts. Yea,
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  the Lord of Hosts is his name. Behold. I have declared the
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  former things from the beginning, and they went forth out of my mouth,
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  and I showed them. I did show them suddenly, and I did it
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  because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew,
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  and thy brow brass. And I have from the beginning declared it to
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  THEE, before it came to pass that I showed them THEE. And I
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  showed them for fear lest thou shouldst say mine idol hath done them, and
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  my graven image at my molti an image hath commanded them. Thou hast seen
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  and heard all this, and will ye not declare them? And I have
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  showed THEE new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst
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  not know them. They are created now and not from the beginning, even
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  before the day when thou hurtest them. Not they were declared unto THEE.
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  Lest thou shouldst say, behold, I knew them, yea, an thou
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  hurdest not yea. Thou knewest not yea. From that time thine ear was
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  not opened, for I knew that thou wouldst deal very treacherously and wast called
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  a transgressor from the womb. Nevertheless, for my name's sake, will I
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  defer mine anger and for my praise? Will I refrain from THEE that I
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  cut THEE not off, For behold, I have refined THEE. I have
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  chosen THEE in the furnace of affliction for mine own sake, Yea, for
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  mine own sake? Will I do this? For I will not suffer my
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  name to be polluted. And I will not give my glory unto another.
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  Hearken unto me. O Jacob and Israel my called for I am he.
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  I am the first, and I am also the last. Mine hand.
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  Hath also laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned
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  the heavens. I call unto them, and they stand up together. All
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  ye assemble yourselves, And here who among them hath declared these things unto them?
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  The Lord hath loved him, yea, and he will fulfill his word
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  which ye hath declared by them, And he will do his pleasure on Babylon,
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  and his arms shall come upon the Chaldeans. And also saith the Lord
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  I, the Lord Yea, I have spoken, yea. I have called
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  him to declare. I have brought him, and he shall make his way
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  prosperous. Come ye near unto me. I have not spoken in secret from
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  the beginning, from the time that it was declared, have I spoken?
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  And the Lord God and his spirit hath sent me. And thus saith the
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  Lord, Thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. I have sent him,
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  the Lord Thy God. But who teacheth thee to profit, who leadeth
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  thee by the way thou shouldst go? Hath done it? Oh that thou
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  hadst hearkened to My commandments. Then had thy peace been as a river,
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  and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea, thy sea. It also
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  had been as sand, the offspring of thy bowels, like the gravel thereof
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  his name, should not have been cut off nor destroyed. From before me.
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  Go ye forth of Babylon. Flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a
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  voice singing, declare ye tell this utter to the end of the earth.
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  Say ye. The Lord Hath redeemed his servant Jacob, and they thirsted.
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  Not he led them through the deserts. He caused the waters to flow out
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  of the rock for them. He claved the rock also, and the waters
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  gushed out. And notwithstanding he hath done all this and greater also, there
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  is no peace, saith the Lord unto the wicked Chapter twenty one. And
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  again hearken, o, ye house of Israel, all ye that are broken
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  off and are driven because of the wickedness of the pastors of my people.
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  Yea, all that are broken off, that are scattered abroad, Who are
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  of my people? O, house of Israel? Listen o isles unto me,
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  And hearken ye people from far. The Lord Hath called me from the
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  womb, from the bowels of my mother, and hath made mention of my
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  name. And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword in the shadow
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  of his hand. Hath He hid me and made me a polished shaft in
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  his quiver. Hath He hid me. And he said, unto me,
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  thou art my servant o Israel, in whom I will be glorified. Then
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  I said, I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength for
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  naught, and in vain. Surely my judgment is with the Lord, and
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  my work with my God. And now saith the Lord that formed me from
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  the womb, that I should be his servant to bring Jacob again to him.
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  Though Israel be not gathered, yet, shall I be glorious in the
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  eyes of the Lord. And my God shall be my strength. And he
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  said, it is a light that thou shouldst be my servant to raise up
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  the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also
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  give thee for a light to the gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation
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  unto the ends of the earth. Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of
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  Israel, his holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom
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  the nation of horith, to servant of rulers, King shall see and arise.
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  Princes also shall worship because of the Lord that is faithful. Thus saith
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  the Lord. In an acceptable time. Have I heard thee o isles of
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  the sea, And in a day of salvation have I helped thee. And
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  I will preserve thee, and give thee my servant. For a covenant of
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  the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages,
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  that thou mayest say to the prisoners, go forth, to them that
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  sit in darkness, show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and
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  their pastures shall be in all high places. They shall not hunger nor thirst.
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  Neither shall the heat nor the unsmite them. For he that hath mercy
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  on them shall lead them. Even by the springs of water shall he guide
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  them. And I will make my mountains away and by highways shall be exalted.
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  And then, O House of Israel, behold, these shall come from
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  far and lo, these from the north and from the west, and these
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  from the land of Sinnam, sing o heavens, and be joyful, O
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  Earth, For the feet of those who are in the east shall be established,
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  and break forth into singing o mountains, For they shall be smitten no
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  more, for the Lord hath comforted his people and will have mercy upon his
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  afflicted. But behold, Zion hath said, the Lord hath forsaken me,
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  and my lord hath forgotten me. But he will show that he hath nought.
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  For can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have
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  compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, Yet
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  I will not forget THEE, O house of Israel. Behold, I have
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  graven THEE upon the palms of my hands. Thy walls are continually for me.
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  Thy children shall make haste against thy destroyers, and they that made THEE
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  waste shall go forth of THEE. Lift up thine eyes round about, and
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  behold all these gathered themselves together, And they shall come to THEE. And
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  as I live saith the Lord, thou shalt surely clothe THEE with them all
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  as with an ornament, and bind them on even as a bride. For
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  thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction shall even
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  now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, And they that swallowed thee
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  up shall be far away. The children whom thou shalt have, after thou
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  hast lost the first, shall again, in thy ears say the place is
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  too strait for me, give place to me that I may dwell. Then
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  shalt thou say in thine heart, who hath begotten me these? Seeing I
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  have lost my children and am desolate, a captive and removing to and fro.
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  And who hath brought up these? Behold? I was left alone these
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  where had they been? Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will
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  lift up my hand to the gentiles and set up my standard to the people.
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  And they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall
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  be carried upon their shoulders, and king shall be thy nursing fathers, and
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  their queens thy nursing mothers. They shall bow down to thee with their face
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  towards the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet. And thou
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  shalt know that I am the Lord, for they shall not be ashamed that
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  wait for me. For shall the prey be taken from the Mighty, or
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  the lawful captives delivered? But thus saith the Lord, even the captives of
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  the Mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the Terrible shall be
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  delivered, for I will contend with them that contended with THEE, and I
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  will save thy children. And I will feed on them that oppress THEE with
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  their own flesh, and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as
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  with sweet wine, and all flesh shall know that I the Lord, am
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  thy Savior and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacoba two twenty two.
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  And now it came to pass that after I Nephi had read these things which
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  were engraven upon the plates of brass, my brethren came unto me and said,
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  unto me, what meaneth these things which ye have read? Behold are
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  they to be understood according to things which are spiritual, which shall come to
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  pass according to the Spirit, and not the flesh. And I Nephi said
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  unto them, behold, they were manifest unto the prophet, by the voice
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  of the Spirit. For by the Spirit are all things made known unto the
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  prophets, which shall come upon the children of men according to the flesh.
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  Wherefore, the things of which I have read are things pertaining to things both
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  temporal and spiritual. For it appears that the House of Israel, sooner or
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  later will be scattered upon all the face of the earth, and also among
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  all nations. And behold, there are many who are already lost from the
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  knowledge of those who are at Jerusalem. Yea, the more part of all
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  the tribes have been led away, and they are scattered to and fro upon
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  the isles of the sea. And whether they are none of us knoweth,
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  save we know that they have been led away. And since they have been
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  led away, these things have been prophesied concerning them, and also concerning all
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  those who shall hereafter be scattered and be confounded because of the Holy One of
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  Israel. For against Him will they harden their hearts. Wherefore they shall be
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  scattered among all nations, and shall be hated of all men. Nevertheless,
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  after they shall be nursed by the gentiles. And the Lord has lifted up
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  his hand upon the gentiles and set them up for a standard, and their
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  children have been carried in their arms, and their daughters have been carried upon
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  their shoulders. Behold, these things of which are spoken are temporal. For
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  thus are the commandments of the Lord with our fathers, And it meaneth in
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  the days to come. And also all our brethren, who are of the
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  House of Israel. And it meaneth that the time cometh that, after all
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  the House of Israel have been scattered and confounded, that the Lord God will
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  raise up a mighty nation among the gentiles. Yea, even upon the face
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  of this land, and by them shall our seed be scattered. And after
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  our seed is scattered, the Lord God will proceed to do a marvelous work
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  amae the gentiles, which shall be of great worth unto our seed. Wherefore
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  it is likened unto their being nourished by the gentiles, and being carried in
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  their arms and upon their shoulders. And it shall also be of worth unto
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  the gentiles, and not only unto the gentiles, but unto all the House
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  of Israel, unto the making known of the covenants of the Father of Heaven,
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  unto Abraham, saying, in thy seed shall the kindreds of the earth
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  be blessed. And I would my brethren, that ye should know that all
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  the kindreds of the earth cannot be blessed unless he shall make bear his arm
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  in the eyes of the nations. Wherefore, the Lord God will proceed to
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  make bear his arm in the eyes of all the nations, in bringing about
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  his covenants and his gospel unto those who are of the House of Israel.
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  Wherefore he will bring them again out of captivity, and they shall be gathered
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  together to the lands of their inheritance, and they shall be brought out of
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  obscurity and out of darkness, and they shall know that the Lord is their
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  savior and their redeemer, the Mighty One of Israel. And the blood of
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  the Great and abominable Church, which is the whore of all the earth,
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  shall turn upon their own heads, for they shall war among themselves, and
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  the sword of their own hands shall fall upon their own heads, and they
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  shall be drunken with their own blood. And every nation which shall war against
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  thee O House of Israel shall be turned one against another, and they shall
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  fall into the pit which they digged to ensnare the people of the Lord.
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  And all that fight against Zion shall be destroyed. And that great whore who
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  hath perverted the right ways of the Lord. Yea, that great and abominable
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  Church shall tumble to the dust, and great shall be the fall of it.
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  For behold saith the Prophet, the time cometh speedily that Satan shall have
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  no more power over the hearts of the children of men. For the day
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  soon cometh that all the proud and they who do wickedly shall be as stubble,
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  and the day cometh that they must be burned. For the time soon
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  cometh that the fullness of the wrath of God shall be poured out upon all
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  the children of men. For He will not suffer that the wicked shall destroy
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  the righteous. Wherefore he will preserve the righteous by his power, even if
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  it so be that the fullness of his wrath must come, and the righteous
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  be preserved even unto the destruction of their enemies by fire. Wherefore the righteous
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  need not fear, For thus saith the Prophet, they shall be saved,
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  even if it so be as by fire. Behold, my brethren, I
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  say unto you that these things must shortly come. Yea, even blood and
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  fire and vapor of smoke must come, and it must needs be upon the
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  face of the earth. And it cometh unto men according to the flesh.
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  If it so be, that they will harden their hearts against the Holy One
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  of Israel, for behold, the righteous shall not perish. For the time
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  surely must come that all they who fight against Zion shall be cut off and
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  the Lord will surely prepare away for his people unto the fulfilling of the words
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  of Moses, which he spake, saying a prophet, shall the Lord your
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  God raise up unto you like unto me? Him shall ye hear in all
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  things whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass that
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  all those who will not hear that prophet shall be cut off from among the
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  people. And now I Nephi declare unto you that this prophet of whom Moses
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  spake was the Holy One of Israel. Wherefore he shall execute judgment in righteousness.
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  And the righteous need not fear, for they are those who shall not
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  be confounded. But it is the kingdom of the devil which shall be built
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  up among the children of men. Which kingdom is established among them which are
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  in the flesh. For the time speedily shall come that all churches which are
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  built up to get gain, and all those who are built up to get
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  power over the flesh, and those who are built up to become popular in
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  the eyes of the world, and those who seek the lusts of the flesh
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  and the things of the world, and do all manner of iniquity, yea
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  and find all those who belong to the kingdom of the devil. Are they
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  who need fear and tremble and quake. They are those who must be brought
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  low in the dust. They are those who must be consumed as stubble.
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  And this is according to the words of the prophet. And the time cometh
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  speedily that the righteous must be led up as calves of the stall. And
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  the Holy One of Israel must reign in dominion and might and power and great
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  glory. And he gathereth his children from the four quarters of the earth,
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  and he numbereth his sheep, and they know him. And there shall be
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  one fold and one shepherd, and he shall feed his sheep, and in
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  him they shall find pasture. And because of the righteousness of his people,
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  Satan has no power. Wherefore he cannot be loosed for the space of many
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  years. For he hath no power over the hearts of the people, for
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  they dwell in righteousness. And the Holy One of Israel reigneth. And now
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  behold, I Nephi say unto you that all these things must come according to
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  the flesh. But behold, all nations, kindreds, tongues, and people
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  shall dwell safely in the Holy One of Israel, if it so be that
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  they will repent, And now I, Nephi, make an end, for
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  I durst not speak further as yet concerning these things. Wherefore, my brethren,
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  I would that ye should consider that the things which have been written upon
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  the plates of brass are true, and they testify that a man must be
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  obedient to the commandments of God. Wherefore ye need not suppose that I and
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  my father are the only ones that have testified and also taught them. Wherefore,
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  if ye shall be obedient to the commandments and endure to the end,
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  ye shall be saved at the last day. And thus it is amen.
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  End of First Nephi, chapters twenty through twenty two.