Mormon described the deterioration of his people who now delighted “in everything save that which is good” (Moroni 9:19). They “had gone from being ‘a civil and a delightsome people’ to ‘a people … that are without civilization’ in ‘only a few years.’ No wonder his heart cried out, ‘Wo unto this people. … O the depravity of my people!’ Modern readers who reel from contemporary instances of incivility, brutality, and depravity truly empathize with Mormon’s injured and depressed psyche: ‘I [can] dwell no longer upon this horrible scene’” (Ogden and Skinner, Book of Mormon, 2:311).