I make an end of speaking unto you
concerning this pride.
And were it not that I must speak unto you
concerning a grosser crime,
my heart would rejoice exceedingly because of you.
Thus saith the Lord:
They understand not the scriptures,
for they seek to excuse themselves
in committing whoredoms,
because of the things which were written
concerning David, and Solomon his son.
David and Solomon truly had many wives and concubines,
which thing was abominable before me,
saith the Lord.
For there shall not any man among you
have save it be one wife;
and concubines he shall have none;
for I, the Lord God,
delight in the chastity of women.
For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts,
raise up seed unto me,
I will command my people;
otherwise they shall hearken unto these things.
For behold, I, the Lord, have seen the sorrow,
and heard the mourning of the daughters of my people
because of the wickedness and abominations
of their husbands.
And I will not suffer, saith the Lord of Hosts,
that the cries of the fair daughters of this people,
which I have led out of the land of Jerusalem,
shall come up unto me against the men of my people,
saith the Lord of Hosts.
My brethren,
ye have come unto great condemnation.
Ye have done greater iniquities
than the Lamanites, our brethren.
For behold, their husbands love their wives,
and their wives love their husbands;
and their husbands and their wives
love their children.
But ye have broken
the hearts of your tender wives,
and lost the confidence of your children,
because of your bad examples before them;
and the sobbings of their hearts
ascend up to God against you.
I speak unto you that are pure in heart.
Look unto God with firmness of mind,
and pray unto Him with exceeding faith,
and He will console you in your afflictions,
and He will plead your cause,
and send down justice upon those
who seek your destruction.
But wo,
wo, unto you that are not pure in heart;
for except ye repent the land is cursed for your sakes.
And also, remember that ye may,
because of your filthiness,
bring your children unto destruction,
and their sins be heaped upon your heads at the last day.
O my brethren,
arouse the faculties of your souls;
shake yourselves that ye may
awake from the slumber of death;
and loose yourselves from the pains of hell
that ye may not become angels to the devil.
Amen.
-Amen.
Come, children.