New Narrative (Reordering) of Isaiah 49 (see 1 Nephi 21):
...Because of the wickedness of the pastors...
Thy children whom thou shalt have... shall...say: The place is too strait for me that I may dwell.
Then thou shalt say in thine heart:...I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? And who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where have they been?
Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for naught and in vain.
The Lord hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath forgotten me--
but he will show that he hath not.
...In an acceptable time have I heard thee,...I helped thee; and I will preserve thee.
For can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?
Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee...
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands;
thy walls are continually before me.
...and I will save thy children.
And I will feed them...
They shalt not hunger nor thirst, neither shall the heat nor the sun smite them; for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people; and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers...and thou shalt know that I am the Lord; for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
Sing, O heavens; and be joyful O earth;...break forth into singing, O mountains; for they shall be smitten no more; for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
For...I will save thy children.
Thy children whom thou shalt have... shall...say: The place is too strait for me that I may dwell.
Then thou shalt say in thine heart:...I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? And who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where have they been?
Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for naught and in vain.
but he will show that he hath not.
...In an acceptable time have I heard thee,...I helped thee; and I will preserve thee.
For can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?
Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee...
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands;
They shalt not hunger nor thirst, neither shall the heat nor the sun smite them; for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.Sing, O heavens; and be joyful O earth;...break forth into singing, O mountains; for they shall be smitten no more; for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
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