The Collected Works of Joseph Smith. Joseph Smith Jr.
Lord, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole
land.
2 Nephi 23:6
6 Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as
a destruction from the Almighty.
2 Nephi 23:7
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, every man's heart shall
melt;
2 Nephi 23:8
8 And they shall be afraid; pangs and sorrows shall take hold of
them; they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be
as flames.
2 Nephi 23:9
9 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and
fierce anger, to lay the land desolate; and he shall destroy the
sinners thereof out of it.
2 Nephi 23:10
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall
not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in his going
forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
2 Nephi 23:11
11 And I will punish the world for evil, and the wicked for
their iniquity; I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease,
and will lay down the haughtiness of the terrible.
2 Nephi 23:12
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man
than the golden wedge of Ophir.
2 Nephi 23:13
13 Therefore, I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall
remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of Hosts, and
in the day of his fierce anger.
2 Nephi 23:14
14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man
taketh up; and they shall every man turn to his own people, and
flee every one into his own land.
2 Nephi 23:15
15 Every one that is proud shall be thrust through; yea, and
every one that is joined to the wicked shall fall by the sword.
2 Nephi 23:16
16 Their children, also shall be dashed to pieces before their
eyes; their houses shall be spoiled and their wives ravished.
2 Nephi 23:17
17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall
not regard silver and gold, nor shall they delight in it.
2 Nephi 23:18
18 Their bows shall also dash the young men to pieces, and they
shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not
spare children.
2 Nephi 23:19
19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the
Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and
Gomorrah.
2 Nephi 23:20
20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in
from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch
tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
2 Nephi 23:21
21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their
houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell
there, and satyrs shall dance there.
2 Nephi 23:22
22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their
desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces; and her
time is near to come, and her day shall not be prolonged. For I
will destroy her speedily; yea, for I will be merciful unto my
people, but the wicked shall perish.
2 Nephi 24 Chapter 24
2 Nephi 24:1
1 For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose
Israel, and set them in their own land; and the strangers shall
be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
2 Nephi 24:2
2 And the people shall take them and bring them to their place;
yea, from far unto the ends of the earth; and they shall return
to their lands of promise. And the house of Israel shall possess
them, and the land of the Lord shall be for servants and
handmaids; and they shall take them captives unto whom they were
captives; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
2 Nephi 24:3
3 And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall give
thee rest, from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard
bondage wherein thou wast made to serve.
2 Nephi 24:4
4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that thou shalt take up
this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say: How hath the
oppressor ceased, the golden city ceased!
2 Nephi 24:5
5 The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, the scepters of
the rulers.
2 Nephi 24:6
6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he
that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none
hindereth.
2 Nephi 24:7
7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet; they break forth
into singing.
2 Nephi 24:8
8 Yea, the fir-trees rejoice at thee, and also the cedars of
Lebanon, saying: Since thou art laid down no feller is come up
against us.
2 Nephi 24:9
9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy
coming; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones
of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings
of the nations.
2 Nephi 24:10
10 All they shall speak and say unto thee: Art thou also become
weak as we? Art thou become like unto us?
2 Nephi 24:11
11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave; the noise of thy viols
is not heard; the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover
thee.
2 Nephi 24:12
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the
morning! Art thou cut down to the ground, which did weaken the
nations!