D&C 135:4 · Isaiah 53:7
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'lamb to the slaughter' stands at exactly three distinct frozen verses in the corpus: Isaiah 53:7, Mosiah 14:7 - which quotes the prophecy - and this verse. The quoted fragment here sits inside the announcement's own quotation marks, as words reported to have been spoken. Divergences from the prophecy: 'is brought as a lamb' becomes 'am going like a lamb', first person and volitional, and the prophecy's silence clause has no counterpart - the speaker here continues at length. A second wording of the figure, with the animals doubled, stands at Jeremiah 11:19. D&C 135 is an announcement about deaths already past, written in an announcing plural with no divine first person anywhere in the section; its claims are the announcers' and are attributed as such. The announcers are not named in the verse text. Counts are of distinct frozen verses in the corpus, derived by search at the time of writing.