Mosiah

Chapter 14

12 verses

1

Doesn't Isaiah say: Who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

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

2

He will grow up before him like a young plant, like a root out of dry ground. He has no form or attractiveness; when we see him, there is nothing beautiful about him that would make us desire him.

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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.

3

He is despised and rejected by people; a man of sorrows, familiar with grief. We turned our faces away from him; he was despised, and we did not value him.

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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.

4

Surely he has carried our griefs and taken on our sorrows, but we thought he was punished, struck by God, and afflicted.

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

5

He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the punishment that brings us peace was on him, and we are healed by his wounds.

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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.

6

We have all gone astray like sheep; each of us has turned to our own way, and the Lord has placed all our sins on him.

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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.

7

He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he didn’t open his mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and like a sheep before its shearers is silent, he didn’t open his mouth.

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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.

8

He was taken from prison and from judgment; and who can speak of his descendants? He was cut off from the land of the living; he was struck down for the transgressions of my people.

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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.

9

He was buried with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, because he had done no evil, and there was no deceit in his mouth.

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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.

10

The Lord was pleased to bruise him and caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his descendants, he will live long, and the Lord’s purpose will succeed through him.

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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.

11

He will see the suffering of his soul and be satisfied. Through his knowledge, my righteous servant will justify many, for he will bear their sins.

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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.

12

So I will give him a share with the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was counted among the sinners. He took on the sins of many and pleaded for the sinners.

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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.