Isaiah 49
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Summary
The Messiah will be a light to the Gentiles. Israel will be gathered in the latter days.
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| (23) And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me. | (23) And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their faces toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me. |
| (25) But thus saith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children. | (25) But thus saith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered. For the mighty God shall deliver his covenant people. For thus saith the Lord: I will contend with them that contend with thee, and I will save thy children. |
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Book of Mormon Central, “How Might Isaiah 48-49 be ‘Likened’ to Lehi’s Family? (1 Nephi 19:23),” KnoWhy 23 (February 1, 2016).
Book of Mormon Central, “Who is the Servant of Isaiah 49/1 Nephi 21? (1 Nephi 21:3),” KnoWhy 24 (February 2, 2016).
Andrew C. Skinner, “Nephi’s Lessons to His People: The Messiah, the Land, and Isaiah 48-49 in 1 Nephi 19-22,” in Isaiah in the Book of Mormon, ed. Donald W. Parry and John W. Welch (Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1998), 95–122.
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