Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'waste' occurs 83 times in the standard works.

6 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'waste' in the standard works and contain 7.2% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 2 minutes to read the entire list.

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Isa. 15:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 6:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 29:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 62 26 88
NT 2 3 5
BM 14 4 18
1 Ne. 3 0 3
2 Ne. 5 2 7
Mosiah 2 0 2
Alma 0 1 1
Hel. 1 0 1
3 Ne. 3 1 4
DC 5 4 9
PGP 0 1 1
TOTAL 83 38 121

1 Ne. 8:7
And it came to pass that as I followed him I beheld myself that I was in a dark and dreary waste.

1 Ne. 21:17
Thy children shall make haste against thy destroyers; and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.

1 Ne. 21:19
For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants; and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

2 Ne. 4:26
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?

2 Ne. 8:3
For the Lord shall comfort Zion, he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving and the voice of melody.

2 Ne. 9:4
For I know that ye have searched much, many of you, to know of things to come; wherefore I know that ye know that our flesh must waste away and die; nevertheless, in our bodies we shall see God.

2 Ne. 15:6
And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

2 Ne. 15:17
Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

Mosiah 12:23
Break forth into joy; sing together ye waste places of Jerusalem; for the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem;

Mosiah 15:30
Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem; for the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.

Hel. 11:20
And thus it did come to pass that the people of Nephi began to prosper again in the land, and began to build up their waste places, and began to multiply and spread, even until they did cover the whole face of the land, both on the northward and on the southward, from the sea west to the sea east.

3 Ne. 2:11
And it came to pass in the thirteenth year there began to be wars and contentions throughout all the land; for the Gadianton robbers had become so numerous, and did slay so many of the people, and did lay waste so many cities, and did spread so much death and carnage throughout the land, that it became expedient that all the people, both the Nephites and the Lamanites, should take up arms against them.

3 Ne. 16:19
Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem; for the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.

3 Ne. 20:34
Then shall they break forth into joy-- Sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem; for the Father hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.