The Record of Rajah Manchou of Vorito. The Translation made by the Prophet James J. Strang of the Voree Plates, using the Urim and Thummim by the Gift and Power of God on September 18, 1845.
1 My people are no more. The mighty are fallen and the young, slain in battle.
2 Their bones bleached on the plain by the noonday shadow.
3 The houses are leveled to the dust, and in the moat are the walls. They shall be inhabited.
4 I have in the burial served them, and their bones in the Death-shade, towards the sun’s rising, are covered.
5 They sleep with the mighty dead, and they rest with their fathers. They have fallen in transgression and are not, but the elect and faithful there shall dwell.
6 The word hath revealed it. God hath sworn to give an inheritance to his people where transgressors perished.
7 The word of God came to me while I mourned in the Death-shade, saying, I will avenge me on the destroyer. He shall be driven out.
8 Other strangers shall inhabit thy land. I an ensign there will set up. The escaped of my people there shall dwell when the flock disown the Shepherd and build not on the Rock.
9 The forerunner men shall kill, but a mighty prophet there shall dwell. I will be his strength, and he shall bring forth thy record.
10 Record my words, and bury it in the Hill of Promise.