(Isa. 53:4; refer in Latter-day Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Bassett, to Mosiah 3:7)
Was He “smitten of God”? Not in the sense that His Father was meting out some kind of punishment. Yet the great Elohim knew the agony to which His Only Begotten would be subjected as He fulfilled His foreordained assignment. Of necessity, the Father of us all had to deny or to turn a deaf ear to the agonizing plea, “O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me.”
(Hoyt W. Brewster, Jr., Isaiah Plain and Simple [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1995], 251.)