Helaman 3:6
1830 Edition
And now no part of the land was desolate, save it were for timber, &c.; but because of the greatness of the destruction of the people which had before inhabited the land, it was called desolate.
Changes
And now no part of the land was desolate, save it were for timber, &c.; but because of the greatness of the destruction of the people whicho had before inhabited the land, it was called desolate.
Simple English
No part of the land was empty except for trees. But because so many people who had lived there before were destroyed, it was called empty.
Paraphrase
The land wasn’t actually desolate—it just lacked timber. It got that name because of the destruction suffered by the people who’d lived there before.