Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'lay' occurs 363 times in the standard works.

76 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'lay' in the standard works and contain 20.9% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 32 minutes to read the entire list.

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Gen. 19:33-35 (5 in 3 verses)

1 Sam. 26:5-7 (4 in 3 verses)

Jacob 5:18-20 (4 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 4:1-4 (4 in 4 verses)

John 10:15-18 (4 in 4 verses)

Ex. 16:13-14 (3 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:51-52 (3 in 2 verses)

Moro. 7:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 18:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 54:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Mal. 2:2 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 17:48 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 5:76 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 54:18 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 22:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 1:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 22:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 7:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 13:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)


Isa. 28:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

 28:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

 28:17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.




Ezek. 42:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 6:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

John 13:37-38 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 13:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 18:43-19:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 19:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 22:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 23:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 5:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 13:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 103:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 192 261 453
Gen. 13 14 27
Ex. 9 25 34
Lev. 15 6 21
Num. 6 16 22
Deut. 10 9 19
Josh. 3 11 14
Judg. 8 5 13
Ruth 3 0 3
1 Sam. 11 22 33
2 Sam. 12 7 19
1 Kgs. 8 13 21
2 Kgs. 6 4 10
1 Chr. 0 3 3
2 Chr. 2 5 7
Ezra 1 0 1
Neh. 1 3 4
Esth. 5 1 6
Job 9 15 24
Ps. 6 18 24
Prov. 7 5 12
Eccl. 2 0 2
Isa. 21 15 36
Jer. 3 19 22
Ezek. 23 20 43
Dan. 0 10 10
Hosea 0 5 5
Amos 1 3 4
Jonah 2 0 2
Micah 2 1 3
Nahum 0 1 1
Hab. 0 2 2
Zech. 1 3 4
Mal. 2 0 2
NT 49 32 81
BM 87 137 224
DC 29 32 61
PGP 6 11 17
TOTAL 363 473 836

Isa. 5:6
And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Isa. 5:8
Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

Isa. 5:29
Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.

Isa. 11:4
But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

Isa. 11:8
And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.

Isa. 11:14
But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.

Isa. 13:9
Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

Isa. 13:11
And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

Isa. 14:30
And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.

Isa. 22:13
And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.

Isa. 22:22
And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.

Isa. 25:12
And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

Isa. 26:5
For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.

Isa. 27:1
In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

Isa. 28:16
Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

Isa. 28:17
Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

Isa. 29:3
And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.

Isa. 29:16
Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

Isa. 29:21
That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

Isa. 30:32
And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the Lord shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.

Isa. 34:15
There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.

Isa. 35:7
And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

Isa. 37:26
Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.

Isa. 38:21
For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.

Isa. 41:25
I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay.

Isa. 45:9
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

Isa. 47:7
And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.

Isa. 51:16
And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.

Isa. 54:11
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

Isa. 56:2
Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.

Isa. 57:1
The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

Isa. 57:5
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?

Isa. 64:8
But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

Isa. 65:15
And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord God shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name: