“The once prosperous agricultural land would be overrun by briers and thorns and serve only as grazing land. Isaiah had prophesied that if the people … did not believe and hearken, they would not be established permanently in the land, though he made it clear that Judah would not be totally destroyed; a remnant would return to the land and to their God, for the Messiah would come through Judah” (Ogden and Skinner, Book of Mormon, 1:190).