Deuteronomy 29:16-29 ▼

16 For you? know that we dwelt in the land of Egypt and that we passed over in the midst of the nations that you? passed over.

17 And you? saw their abominations, and their idols—wood and stone and silver and gold—that were among them,

18 lest there be among you? man or woman or family or tribe whose heart turns away today from YHWH our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations, lest there be among you? a root bearing gall and wormwood,

19 and it will come to pass in his hearing the words of this oath, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,’ so that the wet are swept away with the dry.

20 YHWH will not spare him, for then the anger of YHWH and His jealousy would burn against that man, and upon him will rest every oath written in this book, and YHWH will blot out his name from under the heavens.

21 And YHWH will separate him for disaster from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the oaths of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.

22 And the latter generation of your? sons who rise up after you?, and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, will say when they see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses that YHWH has laid on it:

23 Of sulfur and salt is all the land burning; it is not sown, nor does it bear, nor does any grass grow there—like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which YHWH overthrew in His anger and His wrath.

24 And all the nations will say, ‘What has YHWH done to this land upon thus? Why the heat of this great anger?’

25 And they will say, ‘Upon that they have forsaken the covenant of YHWH, God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.

26 For they went and served other gods and worshiped them—gods that they did not know, that He had not apportioned to them—

27 and the anger of YHWH was kindled against that land, to bring on it every curse written in this book.

28 And YHWH uprooted them from their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and He cast them into another land, as it is this day.’

29 The things hidden are of YHWH our God, and the things revealed are to us and to our sons even to forever, that we may do all the words of this law.