2 Nephi 20:3

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3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

Quotes for Discussion

What will ye do…?

But the Lord wants Isaiah to ask these wicked judges and bureaucrats a question. What are they going to do in the coming crisis when destruction descends on them by an enemy who has come from afar? What good will their ill-gotten wealth be to them in that threatening situation? To whom will they flee for help? And since there is going to be a universal destruction of the wicked, to whom will they leave the glory of their inheritance?

W. Cleon Skousen, Isaiah Speaks to Modern Times [salt Lake City: Ensign Publishing Co., 1984], 231

Where will ye leave your glory?

This does not refer to the glory of the Lord, but to the glory of the world. Hugh Nibley commented:

Imitation glory is darkness; it’s sad. The glory of a merry-go-round, or the glory of Las Vegas, all that light, all that neon glitter. Is that your idea of glory? That’s not very glorious. It’s the opposite; it’s very sad, isn’t it. (“Lecture 18,” 218).

Other translations render this verse, “Where will ye leave your riches?” (Holy Bible, New International Version). Riches will not save you in the day of judgment. In fact, as we’ve been taught elsewhere, they may condemn you, if your heart is set upon them.

John Bytheway, Isaiah for Airheads, p. 130