3 Nephi 22:11 Textual Variants

Isaiah 54:11 (King James Bible) O thou afflicted tossed with tempest

The printer’s manuscript has the plural tempests, but the 1830 edition has the singular, which is also the reading of the King James Bible. The singular usage is also found as part of a sequence of conjunctive singulars in another quotation from Isaiah:

• 2 Nephi 27:2
  • they shall be visited of the Lord of Hosts with thunder and with earthquake and with a great noise and with storm and tempest and with the flame of devouring fire
• Isaiah 29:6 (King James Bible)
  • thou shalt be visited of the LORD of Hosts with thunder and with earthquake and great noise with storm and tempest and the flame of devouring fire

The singular tempest, the 1830 reading in 3 Nephi 22:11, is undoubtedly correct. For a different instance of variation between tempest and tempests, see under 3 Nephi 8:12 (there the plural rather than the singular is correct).