Deuteronomy 29:22-28 ▼

22 |Then the generation to come—your descendants after you and the foreigners who come from afar—will see plagues and illnesses infecting the land that the LORD will inflict on it.

23 The whole land will be covered with salt pits and burning sulfur, with nothing planted, nothing sprouting, and producing no vegetation—overthrown like Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, when the LORD overthrew them in his raging fury.

24 All the nations will ask, 'Why did the LORD do this to this land? What is the meaning of this fierce and great anger?'

25 Then they will answer themselves, 'Because they've abandoned the covenant of their LORD, the God of their ancestors that he had made with them when he brought them out of Egypt.

26 They followed and worshipped other gods whom they had not known and whom he did not assign to them.

27 For this reason, the anger of the LORD raged against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that were written in this book.

28 The LORD uprooted them from the land in his anger, wrath, and great fury, deporting them to another land, and that's the way things are today.'