Deuteronomy 29:22–29

²²So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, ^bshall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses ^†which the Lord hath laid upon it; ²³And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and ^csalt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, ^dlike the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: ²⁴Even all nations ^eshall say, ^fWherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? what meaneth ^gthe heat of this great anger? ²⁵Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: ²⁶For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and ^||whom he had not ^†given unto them: ²⁷And the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book: ²⁸And the Lord ^hrooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day. ²⁹The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.