Verse 11 repeats that terrible destruction from the end of the war that Mormon recorded in verses 3 and 4. Here, we are probably getting the information from Alma’s personal record. There is no chapter break at this point in the 1830 edition. The next modern chapter begins with Alma’s great soliloquy. There is no introduction to who is speaking, which is unusual in Mormon’s use of sources. However, working from the clear indications that it is Alma giving the soliloquy, we can move back to this part of the text and see that it is part of what Mormon was copying from Alma, including the moralizing statements in verses 12 through 13. Those statements are the ones that shift from pure lament to Alma’s soliloquy.