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* But now, thus saith the Lord, that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee.{{ref|fn.1}} | * But now, thus saith the Lord, that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee.{{ref|fn.1}} | ||
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* I have loved thee {with an everlasting love} [Curly brackets not in Isaiah, but {{b||Jeremiah|31|3}}.] | * I have loved thee {with an everlasting love} [Curly brackets not in Isaiah, but {{b||Jeremiah|31|3}}.] | ||
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* therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life. Fear not, for I am with thee. I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back; bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth. | * therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life. Fear not, for I am with thee. I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back; bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth. | ||
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* Thus saith the Lord, who maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters; | * Thus saith the Lord, who maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters; | ||
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* Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert." | * Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert." | ||
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* Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarnish first, (or a power expert in navigation,) to bring my sons from far."{{ref|fn.2}} | * Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarnish first, (or a power expert in navigation,) to bring my sons from far."{{ref|fn.2}} | ||
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* No cite, just reference to it. | * No cite, just reference to it. | ||
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* Where are the gods of Hamah, and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? | * Where are the gods of Hamah, and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? | ||
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* Ho, land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia." Our translators render this address, "Wo to the land."--But this is manifestly incorrect, as the best expositors agree. The Hebrew particle here translated Wo to, is a particle of friendly calling, as well as of denouncing. | * Ho, land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia." Our translators render this address, "Wo to the land."--But this is manifestly incorrect, as the best expositors agree. The Hebrew particle here translated Wo to, is a particle of friendly calling, as well as of denouncing. | ||
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* Thy dew is the dew of herbs," which in the spring shall vegetate. "And I will be like the fertile cooling cloud in the sultry heat of harvest." The Hebrews shall now become "as the tender grass springing out of the earth, by the clear shining after rain;" | * Thy dew is the dew of herbs," which in the spring shall vegetate. "And I will be like the fertile cooling cloud in the sultry heat of harvest." The Hebrews shall now become "as the tender grass springing out of the earth, by the clear shining after rain;" | ||
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+ | ==={{b||Isaiah|18|7}}=== | ||
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+ | * "a nation of ''line, line'';" | ||
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+ | ==={{b||Isaiah|18|2}}=== | ||
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+ | * Truely they are "a nation of ''line, line'';" | ||
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+ | ==={{b||Isaiah|61|9}}=== | ||
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+ | * that all who see them shall acknowledge they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.... | ||
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+ | ==={{b||Isaiah|65|23}}=== | ||
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+ | * that they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them.... | ||
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+ | * No cite, just reference to it. | ||
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+ | ==={{b||Isaiah|65|3}}=== | ||
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* "I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessings upon shine offspring; and they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses;" | * "I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessings upon shine offspring; and they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses;" | ||
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* As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord. My Spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and forever; | * As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord. My Spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and forever; | ||
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* Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, (a name here put for all the Hebrew family, as it was their capital in the days of David and Solomon,) and cry unto her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins." | * Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, (a name here put for all the Hebrew family, as it was their capital in the days of David and Solomon,) and cry unto her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins." | ||
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* The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose; it shall blossom abundantly and rejoice even with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, and the excellency of Carmel and Sharon; they shall see the glory of the Lord and the excellency of our God. | * The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose; it shall blossom abundantly and rejoice even with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, and the excellency of Carmel and Sharon; they shall see the glory of the Lord and the excellency of our God. | ||
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* Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped, then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing | * Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped, then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing | ||
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* Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. The beasts of the field shall honour me; the dragons and the owls; because I give water in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, to my chosen. | * Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. The beasts of the field shall honour me; the dragons and the owls; because I give water in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, to my chosen. | ||
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* ...make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord.... | * ...make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord.... | ||
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* Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the Lord God, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. I will open rivers in the high places, and fountains in the midst of vallies: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; and I will set in the desert the fir tree, the pine, and the box tree together, that they may see and know and understand together, that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it. | * Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the Lord God, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. I will open rivers in the high places, and fountains in the midst of vallies: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; and I will set in the desert the fir tree, the pine, and the box tree together, that they may see and know and understand together, that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it. | ||
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+ | * Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the Lord God, the Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. I will open rivers in the high places, and fountains in the midst of vallies: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; and I will set in the desert the fir tree, the pine, and the box tree together, that they may see and know and understand together, that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it. | ||
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Scriptures cited by both works
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Isaiah 6:11 |
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Isaiah 11:1 |
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Isaiah 11:11 |
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Isaiah 11:15 |
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Isaiah 14:1 |
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Isaiah 49:18-23 |
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Isaiah 49:18-22 |
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Isaiah 11:12 |
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Isaiah 11:12 |
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Isaiah 11:13 |
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Isaiah 49:21 |
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Isaiah 3:18-21 |
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Isaiah 3:24-25 |
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Isaiah 9:6 |
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Isaiah 5:26 |
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Isaiah 7:18 |
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Isaiah 5:13 |
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Isaiah 7:8 |
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Isaiah 10:20-22 |
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Isaiah 49:1,11-13 |
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Isaiah 51:11 |
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Isaiah 49:1,11-13 |
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Isaiah 11:12 |
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Isaiah 11:13 |
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Analysis
The Book of Mormon and View of the Hebrews have only 29 verses from Isaiah in common, some of which are in Isaiah 11, which entire chapter Ethan Smith also alludes to, without quoting. Only eight chapters of Isaiah are mentioned by both works.
Isaiah cited only by Ethan Smith
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Isaiah 18:2-7 |
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Isaiah 60:1,3,8,9 |
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Isaiah 66:30 |
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Isaiah 65:7 |
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Isaiah 65:8-9 |
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Isaiah 56:8 |
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Isaiah 63:17-18 |
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Isaiah 63:1-6 |
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Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting. |
Isaiah 63:1-6 |
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Isaiah 63:16 |
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Isaiah 28:1,3,8 |
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Isaiah 43:4 |
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Isaiah 43:16 |
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Isaiah 43:19 |
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Isaiah 60:9 |
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Isaiah 66:18-21, &c. |
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Isaiah 36:19 |
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Isaiah 18:1 |
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Isaiah 26:3 |
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Isaiah 26:19 |
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Isaiah 18:7 |
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Isaiah 18:2 |
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Isaiah 28:2 |
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Isaiah 61:9 |
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Isaiah 59:21 |
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Isaiah 40:5 |
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Isaiah 35:1 |
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Analysis
Sixteen chapters of Isaiah are used in Ethan Smith without being used in the Book of Mormon (twice the number of chapters they have in common), with reference to at least forty seven verses (more than 60% of the total number of Isaiah verses cited by Ethan Smith). In addition, View of the Hebrews also cites the entire chapter of Isaiah 18 and 60 (twice for the latter); neither are mentioned in the Book of Mormon.
Questionable parallels
A few scriptures are alluded to by View of the Hebrews, but it is difficult to see them as actual parallels in the use of scripture, since one is a grammatic example ignored by the Book of Mormon, and one is a reference to John the Baptist. Joseph Smith would be far more likely to know the reference to John the Baptist from the New Testament than he would to crib the idea from Ethan Smith's use of the Old Testament:
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Endnotes
- [note] This scripture is claimed to be about America, yet Joseph Smith omits it. Why?
- [note] Note the complex mix of scriptures on pp. 179–180; some are in the Book of Mormon, but most are not. Why would Joseph pick out Isaiah 11 in the midst of this complex argument, and ignore Isaiah 43 and Isaiah 60, which are a much larger part of Ethan Smith's argument?
- [note] Note that Ethan Smith insists this is about America. Why not in Joseph’s work then, since this would be tailor made for the purpose which critics claim motivates Joseph's cribbing?