“They Did Curse God, and Wish to Die”
This attitude of the wicked and unrepentant stands in direct opposition to that of those whose hearts are broken, whose spirits are contrite, and whose lives are filled with faith and hope in Christ. To the spiritually dead there is no desire to endure to the end, but instead a wish to die and supposedly end all their pain. They “curse God”—blaming him for their woes rather than looking to God for life and pressing forward with “steadfastness in Christ” (2 Nephi 31:20). Such a despondency is the antithesis of the faith and hope that fills the lives of the righteous who faithfully endure to the end.
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