Deuteronomy 29:22–29

²²And the next generation, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, ^ywill say, when they see the afflictions of that land and the sicknesses with which the Lord has made it sick— ²³the whole land burned out with brimstone and ^zsalt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, ^aan overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, ^bAdmah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath— ²⁴all the nations ^cwill say, ^d‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?’ ²⁵Then people will say, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt, ²⁶and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not allotted to them. ²⁷Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, ^ebringing upon it all the curses written in this book, ²⁸and the Lord ^fuprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and ^gcast them into another land, as they are this day.’

²⁹“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.