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Isaiah 48 challenges false confidence. Isaiah 49 answers false despair. Read the two chapters together, as Nephi did.
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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.
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…
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…
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…
Every time the Book of Mormon sets a block of Isaiah into its pages, its writers do the same thing: they tell you why before, and what it means after. Once you see the bookends, you'll never hit…
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 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…
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.…
ALL THINGS ISAIAHLatter-day perspectives on end-times prophecy
“…search these things diligently; for great are the words of Isaiah.”
