Deuteronomy 29:24
Good News Translation
Then the whole world will ask, 'Why did the LORD do this to their land? What was the reason for his fierce anger?'

New Revised Standard Version
they and indeed all the nations will wonder, “Why has the LORD done thus to this land? What caused this great display of anger?”

Contemporary English Version
People from other nations will ask, "Why did the LORD destroy this country? Why was he so furious?"

New American Bible
they and all the nations will ask, “Why has the LORD dealt thus with this land? Why this great outburst of wrath?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all the nations shall say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land? what meaneth this exceeding great heat of his wrath?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And all the nations shall say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land? what meaneth this exceeding great heat of his wrath?

1 Kings 9:8,9 And this house shall be made an example of: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss, and say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house? . . .

2 Chronicles 7:21,22 And this house shall be for a proverb to all that pass by, and they shall be astonished and say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house? . . .

Jeremiah 22:8,9 And many nations shall pass by this city: and they shall say every man to his neighbour: Why hath the Lord done so to this great city? . . .

Lamentations 2:15-17 Samech. All they that passed by the way have clapped their hands at thee: they have hissed, and wagged their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying: Is this the city of perfect beauty, the joy of all the earth? . . .

Lamentations 4:12 Lamed. The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world would not have believed, that the adversary and the enemy should enter in by the gates of Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 14:23 And they shall comfort you, when you shall see their ways, and their doings: and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord God.

Romans 2:5 But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God:

Context
The Covenant in Moab
23Burning it with brimstone, and the heat of salt, so that it cannot be sown any more, nor any green thing grow therein, after the example of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord destroyed in his wrath and indignation: 24And all the nations shall say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land? what meaneth this exceeding great heat of his wrath?25And they shall answer: Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, which he made with their fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt:…
Cross References
1 Kings 9:8
And this house shall be made an example of: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss, and say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?

2 Chronicles 7:21
And this house shall be for a proverb to all that pass by, and they shall be astonished and say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?

Isaiah 65:11
And you, that have forsaken the Lord, that have forgotten my holy mount, that set a table for fortune, and offer libations upon it,

Jeremiah 5:19
And if you shall say: Why hath the Lord our God done all these things to us? thou shalt say to them: As you have forsaken me, and served a strange god in your own land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not your own.

Jeremiah 16:10
And when thou shalt tell this people all these words, and they shall say to thee: Wherefore hath the Lord pronounced against us all this great evil? what is our iniquity? and what is our sin, that we have sinned against the Lord our God?

Jeremiah 22:8
And many nations shall pass by this city: and they shall say every man to his neighbour: Why hath the Lord done so to this great city?

Jeremiah 40:2
And the general of the army taking Jeremiah, said to him: The Lord thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place,

Lamentations 4:12
Lamed. The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world would not have believed, that the adversary and the enemy should enter in by the gates of Jerusalem.

Deuteronomy 29:23
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