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2 Nephi 9:53 - 2 Nephi 9:63


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53 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

54 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

55 And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

56 Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in Mount Zion.

57 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to hear from the dead?

58 To the law and to the testimony: and if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

59 And they shall pass through it hardly bestead and hungry; and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

60 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble, and darkness, dimness of anguish, and shall be driven to darkness.

61 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict by the way of the Red Sea beyond Jordan in Galilee of the nations.

62 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

63 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

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