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Chapter 14
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This is a quote of Isaiah 53. There seems to be a
consensus among serious biblical scholars that this was written during the
Babylonian exile, in other words, it appears to have been written after Lehi
left Jerusalem.
“Modern scholarship considers the Book of Isaiah to be an anthology, the two
principal compositions of which are the Book of Isaiah proper (chapters 1-39,
with some exceptions), containing the words of the prophet Isaiah himself,
dating from the time of the First Temple, around 700 BCE, and Second Isaiah
(Deutero-Isaiah, chapters 40-66), comprising the words of an anonymous
prophet, who lived some one hundred and fifty years later, around the time of
the Babylonian exile”
(RationalWiki: Book of Isaiah).
Also, considering how hard it would be to transcribe an
entire chapter from Isaiah onto metal plates. Wouldn’t it make more sense for
the author to reference the writings from Isaiah and perhaps provide some
commentary?
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1 Yea, even doth not Isaiah say: Who hath believed our
report, and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
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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.
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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.
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4 Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows;
yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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