pent ye, repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at
hand.
Alma 10:21
21 Yea, well doth he cry, by the voice of his angels that: I
will come down among my people, with equity and justice in my
hands.
Alma 10:22
22 Yea, and I say unto you that if it were not for the prayers
of the righteous, who are now in the land, that ye would even now
be visited with utter destruction; yet it would not be by flood,
as were the people in the days of Noah, but it would be by
famine, and by pestilence, and the sword.
Alma 10:23
23 But it is by the prayers of the righteous that ye are spared;
now therefore, if ye will cast out the righteous from among you
then will not the Lord stay his hand; but in his fierce anger he
will come out against you; then ye shall be smitten by famine,
and by pestilence, and by the sword; and the time is soon at hand
except ye repent.
Alma 10:24
24 And now it came to pass that the people were more angry with
Amulek, and they cried out, saying: This man doth revile against
our laws which are just, and our wise lawyers whom we have
selected.
Alma 10:25
25 But Amulek stretched forth his hand, and cried the mightier
unto them, saying: O ye wicked and perverse generation, why hath
Satan got such great hold upon your hearts? Why will ye yield
yourselves unto him that he may have power over you, to blind
your eyes, that ye will not understand the words which are
spoken, according to their truth?
Alma 10:26
26 For behold, have I testified against your law? Ye do not
understand; ye say that I have spoken against your law; but I
have not, but I have spoken in favor of your law, to your
condemnation.
Alma 10:27
27 And now behold, I say unto you, that the foundation of the
destruction of this people is beginning to be laid by the
unrighteousness of your lawyers and your judges.
Alma 10:28
28 And now it came to pass that when Amulek had spoken these
words the people cried out against him, saying: Now we know that
this man is a child of the devil, for he hath lied unto us; for
he hath spoken against our law. And now he says that he has not
spoken against it.
Alma 10:29
29 And again, he has reviled against our lawyers, and our
judges.
Alma 10:30
30 And it came to pass that the lawyers put it into their hearts
that they should remember these things against him.
Alma 10:31
31 And there was one among them whose name was Zeezrom. Now he
was the foremost to accuse Amulek and Alma, he
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