Mormon lamented the massive Nephite deaths in verses 17–20 of this chapter. He ends by lamenting that their fate may be even worse than death. Now that they have died, they must stand before the very Christ whom they had rejected, “to be judges according to [their] works.”
Therefore, Mormon exclaims: “O that he had repented before this great destruction had come upon you!”
This is not the end of a chapter in the 1830 edition of the Book of Mormon.