The general-prophet cried repentance to his people and showed love toward them because he had the love of God in his own heart. He poured out his soul in prayer for them but without faith because of their hardness. He could feel hope and charity for his people, but apparently he had no faith in them because they “had rejected every word of God, and they were ripe in iniquity; and the fulness of the wrath of God was upon them” (1 Nephi 17:35). They had arrived at the point that it was “everlastingly too late, and [their] destruction [was] made sure” (Helaman 13:38).