O house of Jacob, come ye and O house of Jacob, come ye and
let us walk in the light of the let us walk in the light of the
Lord; _yea, come, for ye have all Lord.--_Isaiah ii_, 5.
gone astray, every one to his
wicked ways.--II Nephi xii_, 5.
In other instances it will be found that the sense of the passages
is different, and that the passages in the Book of Mormon
best accord with the sense of the whole:
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Therefore, O Lord, Thou hast Therefore hast Thou forsaken
forsaken Thy people, the house Thy people, the house of Jacob,
of Jacob, because they replenished because they replenished from the
from the east, and east, and _are_ soothsayers like unto
hearken unto soothsayers like the the Philistines, and they please
the Philistines, and they please themselves with the children of
themselves with the children of strangers.--_Isaiah 11_, 6.
strangers.--_II Nephi xii_, 6.
Their land is also full of Their land also is full of idols;
idols--they worship the work of their they worship the work of their
own hands, that which their own own hands, that which their own
fingers have made; and the mean fingers have made; and the mean
man boweth not down, and the man boweth down, and the great
great man humbleth himself not, man humbleth himself; therefore
therefore, forgive him forgive him not.--_Isaiah ii_, 8, 9.
not.--_II Nephi xii_, 8, 9.
Thou hast multiplied the nation, Thou hast multiplied the nation,
and increased the joy: they and not increased the joy:
joy before thee according to the the joy before thee according to
the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice the joy in harvest, and as men
when they divide the spoil.--_II Nephi rejoice when they divide the
xix_, 3. spoil.--_Isaiah ix_, 3.
Observe, too, the difference in the clearness of the following passages: