style="font-size:15px;"> 2 Nephi 20:1717 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;
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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.
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19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
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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.
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21 The remnant shall return, yea, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
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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.
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23 For the Lord God of Hosts shall make a consumption, even determined in all the land.
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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.
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25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
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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.
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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.
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28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages.
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29 They are gone over the passage; they have taken up their
lodging at Geba; Ramath is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
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30 Lift up the voice, O daughter of Gallim; cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
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31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather
themselves to flee.
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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.
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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.
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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
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1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots.
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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;
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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.
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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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5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
