“Have I Cast Thee Off Forever?”

References

• 2 Nephi 7:1–3

  Yea, for thus saith the Lord:

  “Have I put thee away, or have I cast thee off forever?”

  For thus saith the Lord:

  “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement?

  “To whom have I put thee away,
  or to which of my creditors have I sold you?

  “Yea, to whom have I sold you?

  “Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves,
  and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

  “Wherefore, when I came, there was no man;
  when I called, yea, there was none to answer.

  “O house of Israel,
  is my hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem,
  or have I no power to deliver?

  “Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea,
  I make their rivers a wilderness
  and their fish to stink because the waters are dried up,
  and they die because of thirst.

  “I clothe the heavens with blackness,
  and I make sackcloth their covering.”