Tuesday, October 18, 2011

"I am like"

  1. 19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
  2. 12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
  3. 8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
  4. 6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
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    11 My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
  5. 23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
  6. 83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
  7. 9 ¶ Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the Lord, and because of the words of his holiness.
  8. 8 Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.
  9. 11 But I am like as yourselves, subject to all manner of infirmities in body and mind; yet I have been chosen by this people, and consecrated by my father, and was suffered by the hand of the Lord that I should be a ruler and a king over this people; and have been kept and preserved by his matchless power, to serve you with all the might, mind and strength which the Lord hath granted unto me.
  10. 4 When Joseph went to Carthage to deliver himself up to the pretended requirements of the law, two or three days previous to his assassination, he said: “I am going like a lamb to the slaughter; but I am calm as a summer’s morning; I have a conscience void of offense towards God, and towards all men. I SHALL DIE INNOCENT, AND IT SHALL YET BE SAID OF ME—HE WAS MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD.”—The same morning, after Hyrum had made ready to go—shall it be said to the slaughter? yes, for so it was—he read the following paragraph, near the close of the twelfth chapter of Ether, in the Book of Mormon, and turned down the leaf upon it:

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