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6. Yea, heavy destruction awaiteth this people, and it surely cometh unto this people, and nothing can save this people, save it be repentance and faith on the Lord Jesus Christ, who surely shall come into the world, and shall suffer many things, and shall be slain for his people.

7. And behold, an angel of the Lord hath declared it unto me, and he did bring glad tidings to my soul. And behold, I was sent unto you to declare it unto you also, that ye might have glad tidings; but behold ye would not receive

me;

8. Therefore thus saith the Lord, because of the hardness of the hearts of the people of the Nephites, except they repent I will take away my word from them, and I will withdraw my Spirit from them, and I will suffer them no longer, and I will turn the hearts of their brethren against them;

9. And four hundred years shall not pass away, before I will cause that they shall be smitten; yea, I will visit them with the sword and with famine, and with pestilence;

10. Yea, I will visit them in my fierce anger, and there shall be those of the fourth generation, who shall live, of your enemies, to behold your utter destruction: and this shall surely come, except ye repent, saith the Lord; and those of the fourth generation shall visit your destruction.

11. But if ye will repent and return unto the Lord your God, I will turn away mine anger, saith the Lord; yea, thus saith the Lord, Blessed are they who will repent and turn unto me, but wo unto him that repenteth not;

12. Yea, wo unto this great city of Zarahemla; for behold it is because of those who are righteous, that it is saved; yea, wo unto this great city, for I perceive, saith the Lord, that there are many, yea, even the more part of this great city that will harden their hearts against me, saith the Lord.

13. But blessed are they who will repent, for them will I spare. But behold if it were not for the righteous who are in this great city, behold I would cause that fire should come down out of heaven, and destroy it.

14. But behold, it is for the righteous' sake, that it is spared. But behold, the time cometh, saith the Lord, that when ye shall cast out the righteous from among you, then shall ye be ripe for destruction; yea, wo be unto this great city, because of the wickedness and abominations which are in her;

15. Yea, and wo be unto the city of Gideon, for the wickedness and abominations which are in her;

16. Yea, and wo be unto all the cities which are in the land round about, which are possessed by the Nephites, because of the wickedness and abominations which are in them:

d, ver. 2. m, Alma 2.

e, see d, 1. Nep. 12 f, I. Nep. 8:8, 24. 9:3.

g, see

17. And behold, a "curse shall come upon the land, saith the Lord of Hosts, because of the people's sake who are upon the land; yea, because of their wickedness and their abominations.

18. And it shall come to pass, saith the Lord of Hosts, yea, our great and true God, that whoso shall hide up treasures in the earth, shall find them again no more, because of the great curse of the land, save he be a righteous man, and shall hide it up unto the Lord;

19. For I will, saith the Lord, that they shall hide up their treasures unto me; and cursed be they who hide not up their treasures unto me; for none hideth up their treasures unto me save it be the righteous; and he that hideth not up his treasures unto me, 'cursed is he, and also the treasure, and none shall redeem it because of the curse of the land.

20. And the day shall come that they shall hide up their treasures, because they have set their hearts upon riches; and because they have set their hearts upon their riches, I will hide up their treasures when they shall flee before their enemies, because they will not hide them up unto me; cursed be they, and also their treasures; and in that day shall they be smitten, saith the Lord.

21. Behold ye, the people of this great city, and hearken unto my words; yea, hearken unto the words which the Lord saith; for behold, he saith that ye are cursed because of your riches, and also are your riches cursed because ye have set your hearts upon them, and have not hearkened unto the words of him who gave them unto you.

22. Ye do not remember the Lord your God in the things which he hath blessed you, but ye do always remember your riches, not to thank the Lord your God for them; yea, your hearts are not drawn out unto the Lord, but they do swell with great pride, unto boasting, and unto great swelling, envyings, strifes, malice, persecutions, and murders, and all manner of iniquities.

23. For this cause, hath the Lord God caused that a curse should come upon the land, and also upon your riches; and this because of your iniquities;

24. Yea, wo unto this people, because of this time which has arrived, that ye do cast out the prophets, and do mock them, and cast stones at them, and do slay them, and do all manner of iniquity unto them, even as they did of old time.

25. And now when ye talk, ye say, If our days had been in the days of our fathers of old, ye would not have slain the prophets; ye would not have stoned them, and cast them out.

26. Behold ye are worse than they; for as the Lord liveth, if a prophet come among you, and declareth unto you the word of the Lord, which testifieth of your sins and iniquities, ye are angry with him, and cast him out, and seek all manner of ways to destroy him; yea, you will say that he

h, see e, Hela. 12. i, see e, Hela. 12.

j, ver. 26.

Hela. 16:6.

is a false prophet, and that he is a sinner, and of the devil, because he testifieth that your deeds are evil.

27. But behold, if a man shall come among you and shall say do this, and there is no iniquity; do that and ye shall not suffer; yea, he will say, walk after the pride of your own hearts; yea, walk after the pride of your eyes, and do whatsoever your heart desireth; and if a man shall come among you and say this, ye will receive him, and say that he is a prophet;

28. Yea, ye will lift him up, and ye will give unto him of your substance; ye will give unto him of your gold, and of your silver, and ye will clothe him with costly apparel; and because he speaketh flattering words unto you, and he saith that all is well, then ye will not find fault with him.

29. O ye wicked and ye perverse generation; ye hardened and ye stiffnecked people, how long will ye suppose that the Lord will suffer you? yea, how long will ye suffer yourselves to be led by foolish and blind guides? yea, how long will ye choose darkness rather than light?

30. Yea, behold the anger of the Lord is already kindled against you; behold, he hath cursed the land, because of your iniquity;

31. And behold the time cometh that he curseth your riches, that it becometh 'slippery, that ye cannot hold them; and in the days of your poverty ye cannot retain them;

32. And in the days of your poverty ye shall cry unto the Lord; and in vain shall ye cry, for your desolation is already come upon you, and your destruction is made sure; and then shall ye weep and howl in that day, saith the Lord of Hosts. And then shall ye lament, and say,

33. O that I had repented, and had not killed the prophets, and stoned them, and cast them out; yea, in that day ye shall say, O that we had remembered the Lord our God, in the day that he gave us our riches, and then they would not have become slippery, that we should lose them; for behold, our riches are gone from us.

34. Behold, we lay a tool here, and on the morrow it is gone; and behold, our swords are taken from us in the day we have sought them for battle?

35. Yea, we have hid up our treasures, and they have slipped away from us, because of the curse of the land.

36. O that we had repented in the day that the word of the Lord came unto us; for behold the land is cursed, and "all things are become slippery, and we cannot hold them.

37. Behold we are surrounded by demons, yea, we are encircled about by the angels of him who hath sought to destroy our souls. Behold, our iniquities are great. O Lord, canst thou not turn away thine anger from us? And this shall be your language in those days.

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7, vers. 33-37. Mor. 1: 17-19. See e, Hela. 12. n, see l. o, Mor. 2: 10.

38. But behold, your "days of probation are past; ye have procrastinated the day of your salvation, until it is everlastingly too late, and your destruction is made sure; yea, for ye have sought all the days of your lives for that which ye could not obtain; and ye have sought for happiness in doing iniquity, which thing is "contrary to the nature of that righteousness which is in our great and eternal Head.

39. O ye people of the land, that ye would hear my words. And I pray that the anger of the Lord be turned away from you, and that ye would repent and be saved.

CHAPTER 14.

1. AND now it came to pass that Samuel, the Lamanite did prophesy a great many more things which cannot be written.

2. And behold, he said unto them, Behold, I give unto you a sign; for "five years more cometh, and behold, then cometh the Son of God to redeem all those who shall believe on his name.

3. And behold, this will I give unto you for a sign at the time of his coming; for behold, there shall be great lights in heaven, insomuch that in the night before he cometh there shall be 'no darkness, insomuch that it shall appear unto man as if it was day,

4. Therefore there shall be one day and a night, and a day, as if it were one day, and there were no night; and this shall be unto you for a sign; for ye shall know of the rising of the sun, and also of its setting; therefore they shall know of a surety that there shall be two days and a night; nevertheless the night shall not be darkened; and it shall be the night before he is born.

5. And behold there shall a new star arise, such an one as ye never have beheld; and this also shall be a sign unto you.

6. And behold this is not all, there shall be many signs and wonders in heaven.

7. And it shall come to pass that ye shall all be amazed, and wonder, insomuch that ye shall fall to the earth.

8. And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall believe on the Son of God, the same shall have everlasting life.

9. And behold, thus hath the Lord 'commanded me, by his angel, that I should come and tell this thing unto you; yea, he hath commanded that I should prophesy these things unto

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you; yea, he hath said unto me, Cry unto this people, repent and prepare the way of the Lord.

10. And now because I am a Lamanite, and have spoken unto you the words which the Lord hath commanded me, and because it was hard against you, ye are angry with me and do seek to destroy me, and have cast me out from among you.

11. And ye shall hear my words, for, for this intent I have come up "upon the walls of this city, that ye might hear and know of the judgments of God which do await you because of your iniquities, and also that ye might know the conditions of repentance.

12. And also that ye might know of the coming of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the 'Father of heaven and of earth, the Creator of all things, from the beginning; and that ye might know of the signs of his coming, to the intent that ye might believe on his name.

13. And if ye believe on his name, ye will repent of all your sins, that thereby ye may have a remission of them through his merits.

14. And behold, again another sign I give unto you; yea, a sign of his death;

15. For behold, he surely must die, that salvation may come; yea, it behoveth him, and becometh expedient that he dieth, to bring to pass the resurrection of the dead, that thereby men may be brought into the presence of the Lord;

16. Yea, behold this death bringeth to pass the resurrection, and redeemeth all mankind from the first death-that spiritual death; for all mankind, by the fall of Adam, being cut off from the presence of the Lord, are considered as dead, both as to things temporal and to things spiritual.

17. But behold, the resurrection of Christ redeemeth mankind, yea, even "all mankind, and bringeth them back into the presence of the Lord;

18. Yea, and it bringeth to pass the condition of repentance, that whosoever repenteth, the same is not hewn down and cast into the fire; but whosoever repenteth not, is hewn down and cast into the fire, and there cometh upon them "again a spiritual death, yea, a second death, for they are cut off again as to things pertaining to righteousness;

19. Therefore repent ye, repent ye, lest by knowing these things and not doing them, ye shall suffer yourselves to come under condemnation, and ye are brought down unto this Psecond death.

20. But behold, as I said unto you concerning another sign, a sign of his death, behold, in that day that he shall suffer death, "the sun shall be darkened and refuse to give his light unto you; and also the moon, and the stars; and

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