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Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
4
Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
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For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
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And my soul shall be joyful in the Lord: it shall rejoice in his salvation.
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They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
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But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
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Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
1
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
2
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
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4
When I remember these things, I pour out my soul
in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house
of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept
holyday.
5
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
6
O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
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Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
15
And upon these I write the things of my soul, and many of the scriptures which are engraven upon the plates of brass. For my soul delighteth in the scriptures, and my heart pondereth them, and writeth them for the learning and the profit of my children.
16
Behold, my soul delighteth in the things of the Lord; and my heart pondereth continually upon the things which I have seen and heard.
17
Nevertheless, notwithstanding the great goodness of the Lord, in showing me his great and marvelous works, my heart exclaimeth: O wretched man that I am! Yea, my heart sorroweth because of my flesh; my soul grieveth because of mine iniquities.
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26
O then, if I have seen so great things, if the Lord in his condescension
unto the children of men hath visited men in so much mercy, why should my heart weep and my soul linger in the valley of sorrow, and my flesh waste away, and my strength slacken, because of mine afflictions?
27
And why should I yield to sin, because of my flesh? Yea, why should I give way to temptations, that the evil one have place in my heart to destroy my peace and afflict my soul? Why am I angry because of mine enemy?
28
Awake, my soul! No longer droop in sin. Rejoice, O my heart, and give place no more for the enemy of my soul.
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Rejoice, O my heart, and cry unto the Lord, and say: O Lord, I will praise thee forever; yea, my soul will rejoice in thee, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
31
O Lord, wilt thou redeem my soul? Wilt thou deliver me out of the hands of mine enemies? Wilt thou make me that I may shake at the appearance of sin?
2
And now I, Nephi, write more of the words of Isaiah, for my soul delighteth in his words. For I will liken his words unto my people, and I will send them forth unto all my children, for he verily saw my Redeemer, even as I have seen him.
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4
Behold, my soul delighteth in proving unto my
people the truth of the coming of Christ; for, for this end hath the
law of Moses been given; and all things which have been given of God
from the beginning of the world, unto man, are the typifying of him.
5
And also my soul delighteth in the covenants of the Lord which he hath made to our fathers; yea, my soul delighteth in his grace, and in his justice, and power, and mercy in the great and eternal plan of deliverance from death.
6
And my soul delighteth in proving unto my people that save Christ should come all men must perish.
4
Wherefore, hearken, O my people, which are of the house of Israel, and give ear unto my
words; for because the words of Isaiah are not plain unto you,
nevertheless they are plain unto all those that are filled with the
spirit of prophecy. But I give unto you a prophecy, according to the
spirit which is in me; wherefore I shall prophesy according to the
plainness which hath been with me from the time that I came out from
Jerusalem with my father; for behold, my soul delighteth in plainness unto my people, that they may learn.
5
Yea, and my soul
delighteth in the words of Isaiah, for I came out from Jerusalem, and
mine eyes hath beheld the things of the Jews, and I know that the Jews
do understand the things of the prophets, and there is none other people
that understand the things which were spoken unto the Jews like unto
them, save it be that they are taught after the manner of the things of
the Jews.
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13
Behold, they will crucify him; and after he is laid in a sepulchre for
the space of three days he shall rise from the dead, with healing in his
wings; and all those who shall believe on his name shall be saved in
the kingdom of God. Wherefore, my soul delighteth to prophesy concerning him, for I have seen his day, and my heart doth magnify his holy name.
30
O Lord God, how long wilt thou suffer that such wickedness and
infidelity shall be among this people? O Lord, wilt thou give me
strength, that I may bear with mine infirmities. For I am infirm, and
such wickedness among this people doth pain my soul.
31
O Lord, my heart is exceedingly sorrowful; wilt thou comfort my soul
in Christ. O Lord, wilt thou grant unto me that I may have strength,
that I may suffer with patience these afflictions which shall come upon
me, because of the iniquity of this people.
32
O Lord, wilt thou comfort my soul, and give unto me success, and also my fellow laborers who are with me—yea, Ammon, and Aaron, and Omner, and also Amulek and Zeezrom and also my two sons—yea, even all these wilt thou comfort, O Lord. Yea, wilt thou comfort their souls in Christ.
12
But I was racked with eternal torment, for my soul was harrowed up to the greatest degree and racked with all my sins.
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14
Yea, and I had murdered many of his children, or rather led them away unto destruction; yea, and in fine so great had been my iniquities, that the very thought of coming into the presence of my God did rack my soul with inexpressible horror.
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And oh, what joy, and what marvelous light I did behold; yea, my soul was filled with joy as exceeding as was my pain!
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Yea, methought I saw, even as our father Lehi saw, God sitting upon his
throne, surrounded with numberless concourses of angels, in the attitude
of singing and praising their God; yea, and my soul did long to be there.
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