Helaman 13:30

Yea, behold, the anger of the Lord is already kindled against you;

behold, he hath cursed the land because of your iniquity.

Helaman 13:31

And behold, the time cometh that he curseth your riches,

that they become slippery, that ye cannot hold them;

and in the days of your poverty ye cannot retain them.

Helaman 13:32

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:

Helaman 13:33

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.

Helaman 13:34

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.

Helaman 13:35

Yea, we have hid up our treasures

and they have slipped away from us, because of the curse of the land.

Helaman 13:36

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.

Helaman 13:37

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.

Helaman 13:38

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.

Helaman 13:39

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.