2 Nephi 16:11

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11 Then said I: Lord, how long? And he said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate;

Discussion

Isaiah 6:11, footnote a states, “The prophet wonders how long men will be so, and the Lord answers: until mortal man is no more.”

“Accordingly, Isaiah taught that a part of Israel would return like the oak and the terebinth, which though they are eaten or consumed (hayetah lebaer) right to their substance or stumps (matzebeth), yet they possess a seed in them that can regenerate.” (Terry Ball, Thy People Shall Be My People and Thy God My God…29 as taken from Commentaries on Isaiah in the Book of Mormon, ed. by K. Douglas Bassett, [American Fork, UT: Covenant Publishing Co., 2003], 125)