(Teachings and Commandments) Section 139:14

It is an imperious duty that we owe to God, to angels with whom we shall be brought to stand, and also to ourselves, to our wives, and our children who have been made to bow down with grief, sorrow, and care under the most damning hand of murder, tyranny, and oppression, supported, and urged on, and upheld by the influence of that spirit which has so strongly riveted the creeds of the fathers, who have inherited lies upon the hearts of the children, and filled the world with confusion, and has been growing stronger and stronger, and is now the very mainspring of all corruption, and the whole earth groans under the weight of its iniquity.

(Teachings and Commandments) Section 157:63

The earth groans under the wickedness of mankind upon her face, and she longs for peace to come.

(Teachings and Commandments) Section 159:16

Our failures are mourned in the corridors of Heaven with groans for our shortcomings.