Doctrine and Covenants 122: 7

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THE
DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

SECTION 122

7 And if thou shouldst be cast into the ^apit, or into the hands of murderers, and the sentence of death passed upon thee; if thou be cast into the ^bdeep; if the billowing surge conspire against thee; if fierce winds become thine enemy; if the heavens gather blackness, and all the elements combine to ^chedge up the way; and above all, if the very jaws of ^dhell shall gape open the mouth wide after thee, know thou, my son, that all these things shall give thee ^eexperience, and shall be for thy good.

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7a	Gen. 37: 24. 24 And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it. Jer. 38: 6 (6-13). 6 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of ^aHammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
b	Ps. 69: 2 (1-2, 14). 2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into ^adeep waters, where the floods overflow me. Jonah 2: 3 (3-9). 3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. 2 Cor. 11: 25. 25 Thrice was I ^abeaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
c	Lam. 3: 7 (7-8). 7 He hath ^ahedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. TG Despair.
d	2 Sam. 22: 6 (5-7). 6 The sorrows of ^ahell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me; JS-H 1: 16 (15-16). 16 But, exerting all my powers to ^acall upon God to deliver me out of the power of this enemy which had seized upon me, and at the very moment when I was ready to sink into ^bdespair and abandon myself to destruction—not to an imaginary ruin, but to the power of some actual being from the unseen world, who had such marvelous power as I had never before felt in any being—just at this moment of great alarm, I saw a pillar of ^clight exactly over my head, above the brightness of the ^dsun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me.
e	Job 2: 10 (10-13). 10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive ^agood at the hand of God, and shall we not receive ^bevil? In all this did not Job ^csin with his lips. Job 3: 20 (20-26). 20 Wherefore is ^alight given to him that is in ^bmisery, and life unto the bitter in soul; Job 5: 27. 27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good. Eccl. 3: 10 (9-10). 10 I have seen the ^atravail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be ^bexercised in it. Jer. 24: 5. 5 Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their ^agood. 2 Cor. 4: 17. 17 For our light ^aaffliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and ^beternal ^cweight of glory; Heb. 12: 10 (10-11). 10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his ^aholiness. 1 Pet. 2: 20 (20-21). 20 For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it ^apatiently? but if, when ye do well, and ^bsuffer for it, ye take it ^cpatiently, this is ^dacceptable with God. 2 Ne. 2: 11. 11 For it must needs be, that there is an ^aopposition in all things. If not so, my first-born in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility.