2 Nephi 7:1 - 7:5
2 Nephi 7:1 Yea, for thus saith the Lord: Have I put thee away, or have I cast thee off forever? For thus saith the Lord: Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement? To whom have I put thee away, or to which of my creditors have I sold you? Yea, to whom have I sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
(Jacob now reads Isaiah chapter 50). The Lord asked Israel if He has rejected them or refused to help them anymore? To make another analogy, He asked if they can produce the papers to show He has divorced them. Again He asked them if they have been sold to their creditors because they have failed to pay a debt? What has happened is that Israel has rejected their God and that is why it appears that the Lord has rejected them when it is the other way around.
2 Nephi 7:2 Wherefore, when I came, there was no man; when I called, yea, there was none to answer. O house of Israel, is my hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem, or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make their rivers a wilderness and their fish to stink because the waters are dried up, and they die because of thirst.
The Lord has always been trying to help Israel. But no one is paying attention. People are so rapped up in their wickedness that they do not hear the Lord calling to them. Do the people think that the Lord cannot help them through their trials? Do they not remember that the Lord has power to dry up seas, make rivers stopped flowing that the fish in them die.
2 Nephi 7:3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
Do they not remember that the Lord has blackened the heavens so that it looks like all has vanished that are in them.
2 Nephi 7:4 The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season unto thee, O house of Israel. When ye are weary he waketh morning by morning. He waketh mine ear to hear as the learned.
Describing the Messiah, Isaiah tells us that He will speak as a person of great learning as others will see. He will be faithful from morning to night in His mission. He will speak that which the house of Israel will need to hear.
2 Nephi 7:5 The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
The Messiah will obey the instruction’s of God and will not shirk in carrying out His mission.
