It is interesting to note a possible word parallel ("one continual round") with Mormon's description of the fate of Lehi's people after they had forsaken the gospel covenants of Christ and with Nephi's teachings concerning the promise for those who keep the covenants. At the conceptual chiastic center of First Nephi, the place where the most important concepts are found, the reader will find these thoughts by Nephi on the blessings associated with covenant obedience:
For He is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever; and the way is prepared for all men from the foundation of the world, if it so be that they repent and come unto him.
For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost, as well in these times as in times of old, and as well in times of old as in times to come; wherefore, the course of the Lord is one eternal round. (1 Nephi 10:18-19)
Mormon says the following about the fallen covenant people:
. . . and the whole face of this land is one continual round of murder and bloodshed; and no one knoweth the end of the war. (Mormon 8:8)
[Alan C. Miner, Personal Notes]