These verses contain graphic images of the gross wickedness of both Lamanites and Nephites. Mormon writes of the cruelties, brutalities, and murders on both sides, and even cannibalism among the Nephites. As difficult as it is to imagine the inhumane and abominable practices he mentions, Mormon writes that the wickedness of the Nephites even surpassed the unspeakable iniquities of the Lamanites, practicing horrible cruelties and tortures on captured Lamanites, and even rape. So great were the Nephite brutalities and perversions that Mormon described them as delighting “in everything save that which is good.” Neither tongue nor pen could (or even should) fully describe these awful scenes of wickedness and brutality. See Mormon 4:11-14.