Deuteronomy 29:22–29

²²“In future generations your descendants and foreigners from distant lands will see the disasters and sufferings that the Lord has brought on your land. ^23*The fields will be a barren waste, covered with sulphur and salt; nothing will be planted, and not even weeds will grow there. Your land will be like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, of Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed when he was furiously angry. ²⁴Then the whole world will ask, ‘Why did the Lord do this to their land? What was the reason for his fierce anger?’ ²⁵And the answer will be, ‘It is because the Lord’s people broke the covenant they had made with him, the God of their ancestors, when he brought them out of Egypt. ²⁶They served other gods that they had never worshipped before, gods that the Lord had forbidden them to worship. ²⁷And so the Lord became angry with his people and brought on their land all the disasters written in this book. ²⁸The Lord became furiously angry, and in his great anger he uprooted them from their land and threw them into a foreign land, and there they are today.’

²⁹“There are some things that the Lord our God has kept secret; but he has revealed his Law, and we and our descendants are to obey it for ever.