Doctrine and Covenants 5: 20

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

SECTION 5

20 Behold, I tell you these things, even as I also ^atold the people of the destruction of Jerusalem; and my ^bword shall be verified at this time as it hath hitherto been verified.

Footnotes

20a

Lam. 1: 8 (7-9).

8 ^aJerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is ^bremoved: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her ^cnakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.

1 Ne. 1: 18.

18 Therefore, I would that ye should know, that after the Lord had shown so many marvelous things unto my father, Lehi, yea, concerning the ^adestruction of Jerusalem, behold he went forth among the people, and began to ^bprophesy and to declare unto them concerning the things which he had both seen and heard.

2 Ne. 25: 9.

9 And as one generation hath been ^adestroyed among the Jews because of iniquity, even so have they been destroyed from generation to generation according to their iniquities; and never hath any of them been destroyed save it were ^bforetold them by the prophets of the Lord.

D&C 1: 38.

38 What I the Lord have spoken, I have spoken, and I excuse not myself; and though the heavens and the earth pass away, my ^aword shall not pass away, but shall all be ^bfulfilled, whether by mine own ^cvoice or by the ^dvoice of my ^eservants, it is the ^fsame.