captivity, with so many thousand persons, as we deserved, because we had turned away from God, and had not kept his commandments, and were disobedient to our priests, who admonished us of our salvation; and the Lord brought on us “the anger of his fury,”* and scattered us among many nations, even to the uttermost parts of the earth, where now obscurity seems to be my lot, amongst a foreign people. And there the Lord brought me to a sense of my unbelief,* that I might, even at a late season, call