Mormon moves quickly through the eighty-first through the eighty-fifth years. There is a continuation of tension with the Gadianton robbers, but there is also a change in the Nephite people. “And in the eighty and second year they began again to forget the Lord their God.”
That statement can only lead to worse conditions to come.
This is not the end of a chapter in the 1830 edition. Indeed, all of our current Chapter 11 is setting up for the resolution of the conditions that Mormon has set us up to expect.