Joseph Smith, Jr. - The Second Book Of Nephi (Chap. 2.15) lyrics

2 Nephi 15:1 And then will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved, touching his vineyard. My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill. 2 Nephi 15:2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a wine-press therein; and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. 2 Nephi 15:3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. 2 Nephi 15:4 What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes it brought forth wild grapes. 2 Nephi 15:5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard—I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down; 2 Nephi 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 Nephi 15:7 For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant; and he looked for judgment, and behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, a cry. 2 Nephi 15:8 Wo unto them that join house to house, till there can be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! 2 Nephi 15:9 In mine ears, said the Lord of Hosts, of a truth many houses shall be desolate, and great and fair cities without inhabitant. 2 Nephi 15:10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah. 2 Nephi 15:11 Wo unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, that continue until night, and wine inflame them! 2 Nephi 15:12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine are in their feasts; but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands. 2 Nephi 15:13 Therefore, my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. 2 Nephi 15:14 Therefore, hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it. 2 Nephi 15:15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled. 2 Nephi 15:16 But the Lord of Hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness. 2 Nephi 15:17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. 2 Nephi 15:18 Wo unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope; 2 Nephi 15:19 That say: Let him make speed, hasten his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it. 2 Nephi 15:20 Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil, that put darkness for light, and light for darkness, that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 2 Nephi 15:21 Wo unto the wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight! 2 Nephi 15:22 Wo unto the mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink; 2 Nephi 15:23 Who justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! 2 Nephi 15:24 Therefore, as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, their root shall be rottenness, and their blossoms shall go up as dust; because they have cast away the law of the Lord of Hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. 2 Nephi 15:25 Therefore, is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them; and the hills did tremble, and their carca**es were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 2 Nephi 15:26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth; and behold, they shall come with speed swiftly; none shall be weary nor stumble among them. 2 Nephi 15:27 None shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken; 2 Nephi 15:28 Whose arrows shall be sharp, and all their bows bent, and their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind, their roaring like a lion. 2 Nephi 15:29 They shall roar like young lions; yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry away safe, and none shall deliver. 2 Nephi 15:30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea; and if they look unto the land, behold, darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.