Okay, here we go.

Isaiah 52 to 53, some of the most powerful and wonderful chapters in the

book of Isaiah or in scripture in general. And even though it's not very many verses, there's

no way we can cover them all in class because there's so much good stuff there. So let's do

some fun stuff beforehand. I just want to point out, and I'll just read this to you, but portions of this chapter are quoted often in scripture, John the Revelator, and Paul referred to us at a Nephi, Jacob, the wicked priest of King Noah, Abedadadne, Moronai, and Christ in the Book of Mormon, and Joseph Smith and the doctrine of covenants.

Of the two times the Savior referred to these passages in third Nephi, 16, and 20.

The second time he quoted it extensively, though we rearranged the order of the verses.

So these are clearly, it's not just us who thinks that these are powerful chapters and verses

that scriptural authors do as well.

They get quoted all over the place.

So let's go in to look at Isaiah 51 through verses 1 through 2,

and that's all we'll cover and not even fully that,

but in a good way here in this video.

And of course, you shouldn't be surprised if I say that the first thing we need to do

is look at the

verses before it to try and understand it. So the last couple of verses before chapter 52,

read this way. Therefore, hear now this, thou afflicted and drunken, but not with wine. Thus saith

thy lord, the lord, and thy God. So that would say, thus saith thy Lord Jehovah, is how it really reads,

and thy God that pleaded the cause of his people.

So covenant language right away.

Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling,

even the dregs of the cup of my fury.

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