Narrative: Mormon breaks his story. He has lived through it, and doubtless does not want to relive the scene. By the time Mormon is writing these words, he is more aware of the end of his people than every before. Since he cannot save his people, his thoughts increasingly turn to those he might save – those future readers of his writings. This shift in Mormon’s attention, away from his doomed people, and toward the future readers of the Book of Mormon who have hope in repentance and in the gospel, happens at this verse, and continues through the end of Mormon’s original chapter (which coincides with the end of this chapter in our current Book of Mormon).