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Isaiah 40:15
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
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This chapter in the commentary 1 Nephi 5 — Sariah's Lament, the Burnt Offerings, and the Genealogy That Saved a Civilization 1 Nephi 10 — The Coming Messiah, the Olive Tree in Seed, and the Doctrine of Personal Revelation 1 Nephi 19 — Zenock, Neum, Zenos, and the Hermeneutic of 'Liken' 1 Nephi 20 — Isaiah 48 — The Refining Furnace, the For-Mine-Own-Sake, and the Command to Depart 2 Nephi 8 — Isaiah 51–52:2 — Look unto the Rock, the Cup of Trembling, Awake and Put on Strength 2 Nephi 16 — Isaiah 6 — The Throne Theophany, the Coal from the Altar, and Send Me 2 Nephi 17 — Isaiah 7 — The Sign of Immanuel and the Trembling House of David 2 Nephi 18 — Isaiah 8 — Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz, the Sanctuary and the Stone of Stumbling, To the Law and to the Testimony 2 Nephi 19 — Isaiah 9 — The People That Walked in Darkness, the Child Born, the Four Throne-Names 2 Nephi 20 — Isaiah 10 — The Assyrian as the Lord's Rod, the Remnant Returns, the Cedars Cut Down 2 Nephi 21 — Isaiah 11 — The Branch from the Stump of Jesse, the Sevenfold Spirit, and the Peaceable Kingdom 2 Nephi 25 — Nephi's Exposition — The Plainness, Six Hundred Years, the Name of Christ, and Grace After All We Can Do 2 Nephi 26 — Nephi's Vision Continued — The Nephite Destruction, the Whisper out of the Dust, and the Universal Invitation 2 Nephi 27 — Isaiah 29 Expanded — The Sealed Book, the Learned Man, the Three Witnesses, the Marvelous Work 2 Nephi 30 — Gentile Covenant, Lamanite Delight, and the Millennial Earth — Nephi's Expansion of Isaiah 11 2 Nephi 31 — The Doctrine of Christ — Baptism, the Holy Ghost, and the Strait Way 3 Nephi 1 — On the Morrow Come I Into the World — The Sign Fulfilled 3 Nephi 3 — We Will Wait Till They Come — Lachoneus, Gidgiddoni, and the Defense of a Gathered People 3 Nephi 16 — The Lord Hath Made Bare His Holy Arm — The Gentiles, the Covenant, and the Gathering Alma 5 — Have Ye Received His Image in Your Countenances — Alma's Master Examination at Zarahemla, the Mighty Change of Heart, and the Song of Redeeming Love Alma 7 — The Condescension at Gideon — He Shall Take Upon Him Their Infirmities, That His Bowels May Be Filled with Mercy, That He May Know According to the Flesh How to Succor His People Alma 17 — They Had Searched the Scriptures Diligently — The Sons of Mosiah, the Fourteen-Year Lamanite Mission, and Ammon at the Waters of Sebus Ether 12 — My Grace Is Sufficient — Moroni on Faith, and the Weak Things Made Strong Helaman 7 — The Lament on the Tower — Nephi Pours Out His Soul Jacob 4 — Looking Beyond the Mark — Jacob's Meditation on Christ, Scripture, and the Jewish Stumble Mosiah 3 — The Angel's Message — Jesus Christ Named, Blood from Every Pore, and the Natural Man Mosiah 12 — Abinadi Returns in Disguise — Bound, Tried, and Questioned with Isaiah's Good Tidings Mosiah 15 — God Himself Shall Come Down — Abinadi's Father-Son Christology, the Seed of the Servant, and Beautiful Feet Restored Mosiah 21 — Limhi's Bondage Deepens — Three Defeats, Humbled to the Dust, the Lord Slow to Hear, and Many Desire Baptism but None Have Authority Mosiah 24 — Burdens Made Light — Amulon's Authority, the Forbidden Prayer, the Voice of the Lord in Their Affliction, the Deep Sleep upon the Lamanites, and the Valley Named Alma Doctrine and Covenants 65 — The Stone Cut Without Hands Doctrine and Covenants 89 — The Word of Wisdom 2 Chronicles 14 — The Rest of the Seekers — Asa Cleanses the Land, the Quiet Years, and the Cry of the Weak Against the Many 2 Kings 4 — Borrow Not a Few — The Oil That Stopped at the Last Vessel, the Great Woman of Shunem, Death in the Pot, and the Bread That Was Left Over 2 Kings 6 — They That Be With Us Are More — the Axe Head That Swam, the Mountain Full of Fire at Dothan, and the Siege That Devoured Samaria 2 Kings 20 — The Fifteen Borrowed Years — Tears the Lord Saw, the Shadow That Climbed Backward, and the Treasures Shown to Babylon Genesis 2 — The Breath in the Dust — the Seventh Day Hallowed, the Man Formed, Eden Planted, and the First Marriage Made One Flesh Genesis 5 — The Book of the Generations of Adam — the Likeness Handed Down, the Drumbeat of the Dying, the One Who Walked and Was Not, and the Son Named for Comfort Job 14 — If a Man Die, Shall He Live Again? — Job's Meditation on Human Frailty, the Tree That Sprouts Again, and a Question Left Open in the Dark Job 21 — The Prosperity of the Wicked — Job Dismantles the Retribution Machine Psalms 2 — Thou Art My Son — The Raging Nations, the Laughing Heaven, the Decree on Zion's Hill, and the King Every Knee Will Kiss Psalms 26 — Judge Me, and Try My Reins — A Psalm of Integrity, the Washed Hands, and the Love of the House of the LORD Psalms 27 — The LORD Is My Light — One Fearless Confidence, One Whole Desire, and the Long Discipline of Waiting Psalms 40 — Lo, I Come — The Pit, the New Song, and the Son's Willing Offering Psalms 46 — A Very Present Help — The River That Gladdens the City, and the Command to Be Still Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge via openbible.info (CC BY) and from this project’s own chapter essays. 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