BOOK OF MORMON


Mosiah - Chapter 14 Critique

 

Setting: The record of Zeniff continues with Abinadi preaching to king Noah in 148 BCE America per Mormon calculations.

 

Verse 1: Yea, even doth not Isaiah say: Who hath believed our report, and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?

Note: Sidney Rigdon copied the Old King James version of the Holy Bible.

Isaiah 53:1 Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

 

Verse 2: For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground; he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him.

Note: Sidney Rigdon copied the Old King James version of the Holy Bible.

Isaiah 53:2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him.

 

Verse 3: He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Note: Sidney Rigdon copied the Old King James version of the Holy Bible.

Isaiah 53:3 He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

 

Verse 4: Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

Note: Sidney Rigdon copied the Old King James version of the Holy Bible.

Isaiah 53:4 Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted.

 

Verse 5: But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Note: Sidney Rigdon copied the Old King James version of the Holy Bible.

Isaiah 53:5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

 

Verse 6: All we, like sheep, have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquities of us all.

Note: Sidney Rigdon copied the Old King James version of the Holy Bible.

Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

 

Verse 7: He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb so he opened not his mouth.

Note: Sidney Rigdon copied the Old King James version of the Holy Bible.

Isaiah 53:7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so He opened not His mouth.

 

Verse 8: He was taken from prison and from judgment; and who shall declare his generation? For he was cut off out of the land of the living; for the transgressions of my people was he stricken.

Note: Sidney Rigdon copied the Old King James version of the Holy Bible.

Isaiah 53:8 He was taken from prison and from judgment, and who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.

 

Verse 9: And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no evil, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

Note: Sidney Rigdon copied the Old King James version of the Holy Bible.

Isaiah 53:9 And they made His grave with the wicked; But with the rich at His death, because He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.

 

Verse 10: Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief; when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

Note: Sidney Rigdon copied the Old King James version of the Holy Bible.

Isaiah 53:10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand.

 

Verse 11: He shall see the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied; by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

Note: Sidney Rigdon copied the Old King James version of the Holy Bible.

Isaiah 53:11 He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, for He shall bear their iniquities.

 

Verse 12: Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death; and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bore the sins of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Note: Sidney Rigdon copied the Old King James version of the Holy Bible.

Isaiah 53:12 Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong, because He poured out His soul unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors, and He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Note: Sidney Rigdon forgot that he had Nephi proclaim that Isaiah was hard to understand.

2 Nephi 25:1 NOW I, Nephi, do speak somewhat concerning the words which I have written, which have been spoken by the mouth of Isaiah. For behold, Isaiah spake many things which were hard for many of my people to understand; for they know not concerning the manner of prophesying among the Jews.

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