Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'mourning' occurs 74 times in the standard works.

19 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'mourning' in the standard works and contain 25.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 5 minutes to read the entire list.

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Alma 28:4-5 (5 in 2 verses)

 28:4 And now this was a time that there was a great mourning and lamentation heard throughout all the land, among all the people of Nephi--

 28:5 Yea, the cry of widows mourning for their husbands, and also of fathers mourning for their sons, and the daughter for the brother, yea, the brother for the father; and thus the cry of mourning was heard among all of them, mourning for their kindred who had been slain.





Mosiah 21:9 (3 in 1 verse)

 21:9 And now there was a great mourning and lamentation among the people of Limhi, the widow mourning for her husband, the son and the daughter mourning for their father, and the brothers for their brethren.





Gen. 50:10-11 (3 in 2 verses)

 50:10 And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

 50:11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan.





Amos 8:10 (2 in 1 verse)

 8:10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.





Zech. 12:11 (2 in 1 verse)

 12:11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.





3 Ne. 10:10 (2 in 1 verse)

 10:10 And the earth did cleave together again, that it stood; and the mourning, and the weeping, and the wailing of the people who were spared alive did cease; and their mourning was turned into joy, and their lamentations into the praise and thanksgiving unto the Lord Jesus Christ, their Redeemer.





Morm. 2:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

 2:11 Thus there began to be a mourning and a lamentation in all the land because of these things, and more especially among the people of Nephi.

 2:12 And it came to pass that when I, Mormon, saw their lamentation and their mourning and their sorrow before the Lord, my heart did begin to rejoice within me, knowing the mercies and the long-suffering of the Lord, therefore supposing that he would be merciful unto them that they would again become a righteous people.




Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 47 0 47
NT 4 0 4
BM 20 1 21
DC 2 0 2
PGP 1 0 1
TOTAL 74 1 75

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