In addition to the fact that the Lamanite warriors stood ready to destroy them, and the terrifying thoughts of coming woe which overshadowed their every move, even their search for safety, the Nephites were constantly harrassed by the Gadianton Robbers who filled the land. Bloody forays and murderous assaults on them by the Robbers, were the wages Satan paid the staggering Nephites who now had become as wicked and as vile as the Lamanites. Of Satan, one thing is sure: He always pays his servants their wages. Nevertheless, and notwithstanding the threatened destruction that awaited them, the Nephites "did not repent of their evil doings." Surrounded by forces that were to them superior in numbers; left to their own devices by the God Whom they had forsaken; floundering about as if searching for something which they could not find-something they once had, but which they no longer possessed; the Spirit of the Lord to guide them-the Nephites, the people of God, joined hand-in-hand with the Lamanites in an orgy of blood and carnage that spread throughout the whole land. Here Mormon notes that "It was one complete revolution throughout all the face of the land."