GOSPEL WIKI

Gospel Wiki Connections morm-cfs-isaiah-dust

Mormon 8:23 · Isaiah 29:4

Textual Paraphrase

This connection's citations are checked against the source text.

The badges and the mark are separate signals: Textual and Interpretive name the kind of claim a connection makes, while the mark reports that the connection's citations were checked.

Book of Mormon Mormon 8:23
"even from the dust will they cry unto the Lord"
Old Testament Isaiah 29:4
"and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust"

Moroni explicitly invokes the source oracle ('Search the prophecies of Isaiah', Mormon 8:23) and then gives the dust-cry figure of the buried saints. The near-verbatim Isaiah 29:4 quotation lands earlier on this page at 2 Nephi 26:16 (2ne-isa29-dust); here Moroni alludes to the same verse in his own words. 'from the dust' is a recurring figure -- 11 verses in the record (2 Nephi 1 x3, 2 Nephi 3 x2, 2 Nephi 8, 2 Nephi 33, 3 Nephi 20, Mormon 8:23, Ether 8:24, Moroni 10:31), 14 corpus-wide (the frozen scriptures add Isaiah 52:2, Moses 3:7, Abraham 5:7), so the distinctive element is not the bare phrase but Moroni's explicit appeal to the Isaiah-29 dust oracle.