Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'nations' occurs 498 times in the standard works.

140 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'nations' in the standard works and contain 28.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 60 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 87:2-6 (6 in 5 verses)

2 Ne. 29:7-12 (6 in 6 verses)

Ezek. 5:5-8 (5 in 4 verses)

1 Ne. 13:1-4 (4 in 4 verses)

2 Ne. 1:8-11 (4 in 4 verses)

Gen. 10:31-32 (3 in 2 verses)

Josh. 23:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 51:27-28 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 13:29-30 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 25:15-16 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 133:7-8 (3 in 2 verses)

Gen. 17:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Ps. 67:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

Isa. 66:18-20 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 25:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)


Ezek. 36:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

 36:13 Thus saith the Lord God; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations;

 36:14 Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord God.

 36:15 Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord God.




2 Ne. 27:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 90:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Deut. 7:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 11:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 15:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 12:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 10:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 27:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 51:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 29:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Joel 3:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Hag. 2:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 12:8 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 88:94 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 2:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 8:20-9:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 9:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 12:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 23:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 2:23-3:1 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 32:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 22:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 17:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 29:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 34:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 5:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 6:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Micah 4:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Nahum 3:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Zech. 8:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Zech. 14:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 21:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Rom. 4:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 14:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 22:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 21:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 39:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 43:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 107:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 133:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 299 79 378
Gen. 19 0 19
Ex. 1 0 1
Lev. 2 3 5
Num. 4 0 4
Deut. 39 5 44
Josh. 8 0 8
Judg. 3 0 3
1 Sam. 3 0 3
2 Sam. 2 0 2
1 Kgs. 3 1 4
2 Kgs. 7 4 11
1 Chr. 5 1 6
2 Chr. 6 5 11
Ezra 1 3 4
Neh. 3 0 3
Job 2 0 2
Ps. 22 0 22
Prov. 1 2 3
Isa. 41 1 42
Jer. 49 6 55
Lam. 1 2 3
Ezek. 39 43 82
Dan. 6 1 7
Hosea 2 1 3
Joel 2 0 2
Amos 2 0 2
Micah 4 0 4
Nahum 2 0 2
Hab. 4 0 4
Zeph. 3 0 3
Hag. 2 0 2
Zech. 10 1 11
Mal. 1 0 1
NT 37 4 41
BM 82 99 181
DC 70 12 82
PGP 10 5 15
TOTAL 498 199 697

Ezek. 5:5
Thus saith the Lord God; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.

Ezek. 5:6
And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

Ezek. 5:7
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;

Ezek. 5:8
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.

Ezek. 5:9
And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.

Ezek. 5:11
Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord God; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.

Ezek. 5:14
Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.

Ezek. 5:15
So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the Lord have spoken it.

Ezek. 6:8
Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.

Ezek. 6:9
And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

Ezek. 6:11
Thus saith the Lord God; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.

Ezek. 7:3
Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations.

Ezek. 7:4
And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezek. 7:8
Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations.

Ezek. 7:9
And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the Lord that smiteth.

Ezek. 7:20
As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.

Ezek. 8:6
He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.

Ezek. 8:9
And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.

Ezek. 8:13
He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do.

Ezek. 8:15
Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.

Ezek. 8:17
Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.

Ezek. 9:4
And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

Ezek. 11:18
And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.

Ezek. 11:21
But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord God.

Ezek. 12:15
And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.

Ezek. 12:16
But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezek. 13:23
Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezek. 14:6
Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

Ezek. 16:2
Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,

Ezek. 16:22
And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.

Ezek. 16:36
Thus saith the Lord God; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;

Ezek. 16:43
Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord God: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.

Ezek. 16:47
Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.

Ezek. 16:51
Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.

Ezek. 16:58
Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the Lord.

Ezek. 18:13
Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.

Ezek. 18:24
But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

Ezek. 19:4
The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.

Ezek. 19:8
Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.

Ezek. 20:4
Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:

Ezek. 20:7
Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Ezek. 20:8
But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

Ezek. 20:30
Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations?

Ezek. 22:2
Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.

Ezek. 23:36
The Lord said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations;

Ezek. 25:10
Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations.

Ezek. 26:3
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.

Ezek. 26:5
It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.

Ezek. 28:7
Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.

Ezek. 29:12
And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

Ezek. 29:15
It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.

Ezek. 30:11
He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.

Ezek. 30:23
And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

Ezek. 30:26
And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezek. 31:6
All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.

Ezek. 31:12
And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

Ezek. 31:16
I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.

Ezek. 32:2
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

Ezek. 32:9
I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.

Ezek. 32:12
By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.

Ezek. 32:16
This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord God.

Ezek. 32:18
Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.

Ezek. 33:29
Then shall they know that I am the Lord, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.

Ezek. 35:10
Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the Lord was there:

Ezek. 36:13
Thus saith the Lord God; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations;

Ezek. 36:14
Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord God.

Ezek. 36:15
Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord God.

Ezek. 36:31
Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.

Ezek. 37:22
And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:

Ezek. 38:8
After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.

Ezek. 38:12
To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

Ezek. 38:23
Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezek. 39:27
When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;

Ezek. 43:8
In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.

Ezek. 44:6
And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,

Ezek. 44:7
In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.

Ezek. 44:13
And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.