# 2 Nephi 7

*1830 Edition*

**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 come, 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 appointed 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 which 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 kindleth 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.

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*Source: [The Book of Mormon](https://bookofmormon.com/1830/2-nephi/7)*
