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D&C 63:37 · Isaiah 11:5

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Doctrine and Covenants D&C 63:37
"And that every man should take righteousness in his hands and faithfulness upon his loins, and lift a warning voice unto the inhabitants of the earth; and declare both by word and by flight that desolation shall come upon the wicked."
Old Testament Isaiah 11:5
"And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins."

The shared material is a pairing rather than a run: the same two abstract nouns, righteousness and faithfulness, distributed over the same garments-of-the-body figure, with loins named in both. Registered as allusion, not shared phrasing — the longest verbatim run common to the two verses is one word. Divergences: the prophecy dresses one figure it has been describing since Isaiah 11:1 and gives each noun a girdle; this verse makes the wearing a duty of 'every man' and moves righteousness from the loins to the hands. The prophecy's wording stands at three distinct frozen verses in the corpus — Isaiah 11:5, 2 Nephi 21:5, and 2 Nephi 30:11, the two later carriers reproducing it inside the record's Isaiah blocks — and this verse is the only one of the four that re-aims it. 'lift a warning voice', 'take righteousness', 'faithfulness upon', and 'desolation shall come upon the wicked' each stand at exactly one frozen verse in the corpus, this one; 'warning voice' stands at three — D&C 38:41, D&C 63:37, D&C 112:5.

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