Alma 4:2
1830 Edition
and the people being afflicted, yea, greatly afflicted for the loss of their brethren, and also for the loss of their flocks and herds, and also for the loss of their fields of grain, which was trodden under foot and destroyed by the Lamanites,
Changes
Simple English
The people had a very hard time. They had lost their brothers. They had lost their sheep and cows. They had lost their grain fields. The Lamanites had walked through the fields and destroyed them.
Paraphrase
But the people were grieving deeply—they’d lost family members in battle, their livestock had been scattered, and their grain fields had been trampled and destroyed by the Lamanites.