Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'cut' occurs 416 times in the standard works.

103 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'cut' in the standard works and contain 24.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 44 minutes to read the entire list.

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Micah 5:9-13 (5 in 5 verses)

3 Ne. 21:13-17 (5 in 5 verses)

Zech. 11:8-10 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 9:11-14 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 42:6-9 (4 in 4 verses)

Jer. 47:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

Josh. 4:7 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 20:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 94:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 18:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 22:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 38:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 48:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Zeph. 1:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 5:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 9:10 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 2:5 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 5:20 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 4:16 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 50:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 7:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 17:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 20:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 20:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 13:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 15:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 20:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 1:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 6:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 9:48-49 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 24:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)


Jer. 7:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

 7:28 But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the Lord their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

 7:29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.




Jer. 44:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Lam. 3:53-54 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 21:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Obad. 1:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Nahum 1:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Zeph. 1:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Zeph. 3:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 22:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 46:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 50:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 58:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 1:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-M 1:54-55 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 298 107 405
Gen. 2 0 2
Ex. 11 3 14
Lev. 22 2 24
Num. 8 3 11
Deut. 9 4 13
Josh. 9 0 9
Judg. 10 0 10
Ruth 1 0 1
1 Sam. 12 1 13
2 Sam. 4 1 5
1 Kgs. 10 1 11
2 Kgs. 10 3 13
1 Chr. 3 3 6
2 Chr. 12 3 15
Ezra 0 1 1
Neh. 0 1 1
Esth. 0 1 1
Job 15 3 18
Ps. 28 27 55
Prov. 4 1 5
Eccl. 0 1 1
Isa. 25 4 29
Jer. 26 14 40
Lam. 3 5 8
Ezek. 20 18 38
Dan. 6 0 6
Hosea 3 1 4
Joel 3 1 4
Amos 5 0 5
Obad. 4 0 4
Micah 5 2 7
Nahum 5 0 5
Hab. 1 1 2
Zeph. 6 0 6
Zech. 15 2 17
Mal. 1 0 1
NT 22 51 73
BM 72 60 132
DC 20 17 37
PGP 4 17 21
TOTAL 416 252 668

Jer. 5:1
Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.

Jer. 7:5
For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

Jer. 7:28
But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the Lord their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

Jer. 7:29
Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

Jer. 9:21
For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

Jer. 10:3
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

Jer. 11:19
But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

Jer. 15:15
O Lord, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.

Jer. 16:6
Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:

Jer. 17:18
Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

Jer. 20:11
But the Lord is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.

Jer. 21:12
O house of David, thus saith the Lord; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Jer. 22:3
Thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

Jer. 22:7
And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

Jer. 22:14
That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

Jer. 23:5
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.

Jer. 23:20
The anger of the Lord shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.

Jer. 25:37
And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

Jer. 29:18
And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:

Jer. 33:15
In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.

Jer. 34:18
And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof,

Jer. 36:23
And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.

Jer. 41:5
That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the Lord.

Jer. 44:7
Therefore now thus saith the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;

Jer. 44:8
In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

Jer. 44:11
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.

Jer. 46:23
They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.

Jer. 47:4
Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the Lord will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.

Jer. 47:5
Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?

Jer. 48:2
There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.

Jer. 48:25
The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the Lord.

Jer. 48:37
For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

Jer. 49:26
Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the Lord of hosts.

Jer. 50:16
Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.

Jer. 50:23
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

Jer. 50:30
Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the Lord.

Jer. 51:6
Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the Lord's vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.

Jer. 51:62
Then shalt thou say, O Lord, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.