Come Follow Me · September 28–October 4, 2026

CFM 04 · Isaiah 40–49 Lesson Collection

Start with the main lesson. Follow its questions through the companion articles.

A family looks from a dark shore toward a ship and a bright island dawn, symbolizing movement from judgment toward covenant hope.

Main Lesson · Ken Krogue

One Says You Haven't Arrived. One Says You Haven't Been Forgotten.

Isaiah 48 challenges false confidence. Isaiah 49 answers false despair. Read the two chapters together, as Nephi did.

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Card-safe teaching panel comparing Isaiah 52:7, one servant, with 1 Nephi 13:37, many servants.

Where Nephi's Isaiah Ends, Jacob's Begins

Isaiah 49 · 1 Nephi 22 · 2 Nephi 6–10

This week's reading stops at Isaiah 49. The 1830 Book of Mormon doesn't. Jacob picks up Nephi's Isaiah at 49:22, the last five verses of the chapter, and carries it into next week.

A mother and daughter study two open scriptures together in warm evening light.

How to Read Isaiah in the Book of Mormon: 7 Steps Anyone Can Use

1 Nephi 20–22 · seven steps for reading Isaiah

How to read Isaiah beside the Book of Mormon, and find things for yourself. The Study skill, worked through Isaiah 48 and 49 and Nephi's text of them. Every move is named for the place in Nephi's text…

Two open scriptures in golden light beneath a storm and sunrise, symbolizing Isaiah and the Book of Mormon read together.

Isaiah 48 in the Book of Mormon: 21 of 22 Verses Are Different

Isaiah 48 · 1 Nephi 20 · the textual differences

Isaiah 48, as Nephi gives it to us in 1 Nephi 20: a chapter written to covenant people who think they've arrived. Verse by verse, with every place the Book of Mormon sharpens it, and the Servant hiding…

Teaching image showing the law of first mention before Nephi copies Isaiah, including four quotations and two namings.

Nephi Quoted Isaiah Four Times Before 1 Nephi 20. Here's What He Changed.

1 Nephi 10–19 · four quotations and two introductions

Before Nephi copied a single chapter of Isaiah onto the plates, he quoted Isaiah four times and named him twice. Each time he changed something. Here's what he planted, and where it grows. Most of us think Isaiah…

Three doorways open onto darkness, scripture light, and sunrise, symbolizing the before, Isaiah, and after pattern in the Book of Mormon.

The Book of Mormon Tells You What Isaiah Means. Look Before and After Every Chapter.

1 Nephi 19–22 · the commentary around Isaiah

The prophets who carried Isaiah into the Book of Mormon were stopped, again and again, from saying everything they saw. So every time they set Isaiah down, they built a door in front of it and a door…

A family receives an old book across a table, symbolizing inheritance, covenant memory, and scripture handed forward.

The Sentence in 1 Nephi 21 That No Bible Has

Isaiah 49 · 1 Nephi 21:1 · the added sentence

Isaiah 49, as Nephi gives it in 1 Nephi 21: the chapter for people who think God forgot them. It opens with a sentence no Bible has, it answers the complaint in the same breath, and it ends…

Nephi sees covenant families and a city divided between storm and light, symbolizing the three days before he stopped writing.

The Three Days Nephi Saw Before He Was Told to Stop Writing

1 Nephi 14 · the three days

Nephi saw all the way to our day. Then an angel told him to stop writing. Right before his pen stopped, he gave us three days, in order. Here they are, and here's what he did instead of…

Nephi looks toward the luminous tree of life while the great and spacious building falls in storm behind it.

What Nephi Saw That Lehi Didn't: The Tree of Life, Explained

1 Nephi 8, 11–14 · the tree of life and its meaning

Lehi saw a tree, a rod, a river and a building. His son asked to see the same thing, and was shown what every piece meant, and then the whole history of the world down to our day.…

Finding Hope in the Furnace: Comfort and Redemption in Isaiah 40–49

Darryl Alder · Isaiah 40–49 · companion perspective

Discover comfort, hope, and redemption in Isaiah 40–49. Learn how God strengthens us through trials and refines us in the furnace of affliction.