Deuteronomy 29:22–29

²²“Future generations of your children who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant country will see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses the Lord has inflicted on it. ²³All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown, producing nothing, with no plant growing on it, just like the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord demolished in his fierce anger.^{m 24}All the nations will ask, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this land? Why this intense outburst of anger?’ ²⁵Then people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he had made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. ²⁶They began to serve other gods, bowing in worship to gods they had not knownⁿ—gods that the Lord had not permitted them to worship.^{o 27}Therefore the Lord’s anger burned against this land, and he brought every curse written in this book on it. ²⁸The Lord uprooted them from their land in his anger, rage, and intense wrath, and threw them into another land where they are today.’ ²⁹The hidden things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things belong to us and our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.