2 Nephi 7
1 Yea, for thus saith the Lord: Have I put thee away, or have I cast thee off
forever? For thus saith the Lord: Where is the bill of your mother's
divorcement? To whom have I put thee away, or to which of my creditors
have I sold you? Yea, to whom have I sold you? Behold, for your iniquities
have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put
away.
2 Wherefore, when I came, there was no man; when I called, yea, there was
none to answer. O house of Israel, is my hand shortened at all that it cannot
redeem, or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the
sea, I make their rivers a wilderness and their fish to stink because the waters
are dried up, and they die because of thirst.
3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
4 The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should
know how to speak a word in season unto thee, O house of Israel. When ye
are weary he waketh morning by morning. He waketh mine ear to hear as
the learned.
5 The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither
turned away back.
6 I gave my back to the smiter, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the
hair. I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
7 For the Lord God will help me, therefore shall I not be confounded.
Therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be
ashamed.
8 And the Lord is near, and he justifieth me. Who will contend with me?
Let us stand together. Who is mine adversary? Let him come near me, and I
will smite him with the strength of my mouth.
9 For the Lord God will help me. And all they who shall condemn me,
behold, all they shall wax old as a garment, and the moth shall eat them up.
10 Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his
servant, that walketh in darkness and hath no light?
11 Behold all ye that kindle fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks,
walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks which ye have kindled. This
shall ye have of mine hand — ye shall lie down in sorrow.