3 Nephi 16:9 · 1 Nephi 19:14
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The scattering-judgment idiom Nephi drew from his brass-plates prophets (1 Ne 19:14, in the 'saith the prophet' block) is re-spoken as the Father's word in the Bountiful discourse (16:9), listing the afflictions of the smitten house of Israel. The phrase 'a hiss and a byword' occurs only at these two places in the corpus. Mormon later turns the word back on the scorners -- 'ye need not any longer hiss, nor spurn, nor make game of the Jews' (29:8) -- but there the verb is the mocker's act, not the victim's condition, a different construction, not a registered connection.