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.