The Book of Mormon

2 Nephi 15:13

1830 Edition

Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

Influences

Isaiah 5:13 (KJV)
Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

Changes

Therefore, my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge:; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

Simple English

My people have been taken away to another land because they don’t know better. Their important men are starving. Their crowds are dying of thirst.

Paraphrase

That’s why my people will be taken captive—because they don’t understand. Their honored leaders will starve. The crowds will die of thirst.