I remember that Isaiah looked considerably younger than the white-bearded stereotype of an Old Testament prophet. I think the sides of the king's throne were decorated with relief sculptures of winged bulls or something similar.
I can't remember anything about what the message was or how the king reacted, but the Isaiah text that would have been on my mind when I went to bed was Isaiah 59:14, or rather the misquoted version from G's wife's dream, as reported in his post "Pick It Up": "Truth lieth in the streets." G had connected this with Napoleon's famous line, "I found the crown of France lying in the gutter and picked it up," so that might tie in with the king angle.
The concept of a "delayed reaction" to a prophetic message is also a link to G, since he has published several posts with titles like "D&C When Everyone Else is Done," in which he offers "delayed" commentary on sections of scripture several months after those sections have been covered in the standardized CJCLDS Sunday school curriculum.
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Linking things back to a person named "G" symbolically links some of this back to you, since that is a nickname you also went by once upon a time. You had mentioned that specifically in your dream of Diego and G.
Isaiah speaking to a king in his court has Abinadi vibes, just looking at some things thematically. That even happened in 3 parts - with Abinadi's discourse as Act 1, Alma being kicked out and writing all of Abinadi's words as Act 2, and Noah's delayed reaction to Abinadi's words in Act 3 (Noah waited 3 days to give Abinadi his response). Alma's act is even slightly out of order as we jump ahead to get a brief mention of him spending many days writing Abinadi's words before then flipping back to learn of Abinadi's fate.
Abinadi's discourse with King Noah is the only Book of Mormon event where Isaiah is invoked, quoted extensively, and expounded upon in the court of a king. Why Abinadi would have been perceived as Isaiah in this interpretation of your dream, I don't know, other than to maybe emphasize that it was the message and Isaiah's words that were the primary things to pay attention to here. Abinadi would focus on the one passage from Isaiah 52 that was asked in question, and then expound further into Isaiah 53. Later, at Bountiful, Jesus also quotes the Isaiah 52 passages and then proceeds to Isaiah 54 before saying that "great are the words of Isaiah" and commanding them to study Isaiah.
And I know you were focused on Isaiah 59, and not those earlier chapters, but the overall Isaiah tie seemed potentially relevant with a discourse and King's reaction happening in a court.
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