7  He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a ^dlamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

  7  He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; he is brought as a ^blamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb so he opened not his mouth.

  4  When Joseph went to Carthage to deliver himself up to the pretended requirements of the law, two or three days previous to his assassination, he said: "I am going like a ^alamb to the slaughter; but I am calm as a summer's morning; I have a conscience void of offense towards God, and towards all men. I shall die innocent, and it shall yet be said of me—he was murdered in cold blood."—The same morning, after Hyrum had made ready to go—shall it be said to the slaughter? yes, for so it was—he read the following paragraph, near the close of the twelfth chapter of Ether, in the Book of Mormon, and turned down the leaf upon it:

  62  The lips of those that rose up against me, and their ^adevice against me all the day.