Deuteronomy 29:22-28 ▼

22 “And the generation to come, your sons who rise up after you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, shall see the plagues of the land and the diseases with which Yahweh has afflicted it, and they will say,

23 ‘All its land is brimstone and salt, a burning waste, unsown and nothing sprouting, and no grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in His anger and in His wrath.’

24 And all the nations will say, ‘Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? Why this great burning anger?’

25 Then men will say, ‘Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which He cut with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.

26 And they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they have not known and whom He had not apportioned to them.

27 Therefore, the anger of Yahweh was kindled against that land, to bring upon it every curse which is written in this book;

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