There will be a time when the people of God will think the Lord has forsaken them. But the full text in the Book of Mormon is as follows: "But, behold, Zion hath said: The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me -- but he will show that he hath not." Notice that the Lord here is referring to the people of Zion thinking that they were forsaken. When the prophets distinguish Zion from Jerusalem itself, which they often do, they are talking about North and South America. Joseph Smith said, "The whole of America is Zion itself from north to south, and is described by the Prophets, who declare that it is the Zion where the mountain of the Lord should be, and that it should be in the center of the land."4