Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'pity' occurs 35 times in the standard works.

4 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'pity' in the standard works and contain 11.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 2 minutes to read the entire list.

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Job 19:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 11:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 29 0 29
NT 1 0 1
BM 4 0 4
2 Ne. 1 0 1
Alma 1 0 1
3 Ne. 1 0 1
Ether 1 0 1
DC 1 0 1
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 35 0 35

2 Ne. 23:18
Their bows shall also dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children.

Alma 53:11
And because of their oath they had been kept from taking up arms against their brethren; for they had taken an oath that they never would shed blood more; and according to their oath they would have perished; yea, they would have suffered themselves to have fallen into the hands of their brethren, had it not been for the pity and the exceeding love which Ammon and his brethren had had for them.

3 Ne. 3:3
And it seemeth a pity unto me, most noble Lachoneus, that ye should be so foolish and vain as to suppose that ye can stand against so many brave men who are at my command, who do now at this time stand in their arms, and do await with great anxiety for the word-- Go down upon the Nephites and destroy them.

Ether 3:3
Behold, O Lord, thou hast smitten us because of our iniquity, and hast driven us forth, and for these many years we have been in the wilderness; nevertheless, thou hast been merciful unto us. O Lord, look upon me in pity, and turn away thine anger from this thy people, and suffer not that they shall go forth across this raging deep in darkness; but behold these things which I have molten out of the rock.