Deuteronomy 29:22–29

²²“And the next generation, that is, your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a distant land, when^o they will see the plagues of that land and its diseases that Yahweh has inflicted upon it, will say, ²³‘All its land is brimstone and salt left by fire, none of its land will be sown,^p and it will not make plants sprout out and it will not grow any vegetation; it is as the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Adman and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overturned in his anger and in his wrath.’ ²⁴And all the nations will say, ‘Why^q has Yahweh done such a thing^r to this land? What caused the fierceness of this great anger?’ ²⁵And they will say,^s ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their ancestors,^t which he made^u with them when he brought them out^v from the land of Egypt. ²⁶And they went and served other gods and bowed down to them, gods whom they did not know them and he^w had not allotted to them. ²⁷So the anger of Yahweh was kindled^x against that land to bring upon it all the curses written in this scroll, ²⁸and Yahweh uprooted them from their land in anger and in wrath and in great fury, and he cast them into another land, just as it is today.’^y

²⁹“The hidden things belong to Yahweh^z our God, but the revealed things belong to us^a to know and to our children forever,^b in order to do all the words of this law.”