Original Chapter 5. Comprising chapter 16 to chapter 19 verse 21.
And now, after all these things, the time has come that they have become wicked, yea, nearly unto ripeness; and I know not but they are at this day about to be destroyed; for I know that the day must surely come that they must be destroyed, save a few only, who shall be led away into captivity.
In Royal Skousen’s “The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text”, 1 Nephi 17:43 reads a little differently:
And now after all these things,
the time has come that they have became wicked,
yea, nearly unto ripeness.
And I know not but they are at this day about to be destroyed,
for I know that the day must surely come
that they must be destroyed save a few only
which shall be led away into captivity.