Doctrine and Covenants 87: 7

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

SECTION 87

7 That the cry of the saints, and of the ^ablood of the saints, shall cease to come up into the ears of the Lord of ^bSabaoth, from the earth, to be avenged of their enemies.

Footnotes

Rev. 6: 10 (1, 10)

10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and ^aavenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

Rev. 19: 2.

2 For true and righteous are his ^ajudgments: for he hath ^bjudged the great ^cwhore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.

2 Ne. 28: 10.

10 And the ^ablood of the saints shall cry from the ground against them.

Morm. 8: 27 (27, 40-41)

27 And it shall come in a day when the ^ablood of saints shall cry unto the Lord, because of secret ^bcombinations and the works of darkness.

Ether 8: 22 (22-24)

22 And whatsoever ^anation shall uphold such secret combinations, to get power and gain, until they shall spread over the nation, behold, they shall be destroyed; for the Lord will not suffer that the ^bblood of his saints, which shall be shed by them, shall always cry unto him from the ground for ^cvengeance upon them and yet he avenge them not.

James 5: 4.

4 Behold, the ^ahire of the ^blabourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

D&C 88: 2.

2 Behold, this is pleasing unto your Lord, and the angels ^arejoice over you; the ^balms of your prayers have come up into the ears of the Lord of ^cSabaoth, and are recorded in the ^dbook of the names of the sanctified, even them of the celestial world.

D&C 95: 7.

7 And for this cause I gave unto you a commandment that you should call your ^asolemn assembly, that your ^bfastings and your ^cmourning might come up into the ears of the Lord of ^dSabaoth, which is by interpretation, the ^ecreator of the first day, the beginning and the end.