Deuteronomy 29:22–29

²²“And the generation to come, your sons who rise up after you and ^athe foreigner who comes from a distant land, shall see the plagues of the land and the diseases with which Yahweh has ¹afflicted it, and they will say,

²³‘All its land is ^abrimstone and salt, ^ba burning waste, ¹unsown and nothing sprouting, and no grass grows in it, like the overthrow of ^cSodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in His anger and in His wrath.’

²⁴“And all the nations will say, ‘^aWhy has Yahweh done thus to this land? Why this great burning anger?’

²⁵“Then men will say, ‘^aBecause they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which He cut with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.

²⁶‘And they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they have not known and whom He had not apportioned to them.

²⁷‘Therefore, the anger of Yahweh was kindled against that land, ^ato bring upon it every curse which is written in this book;

²⁸and ^aYahweh uprooted them from their land in anger and in fury and in great wrath, and He cast them into another land, as it is this day.’

²⁹“^aThe secret things belong to Yahweh our God, but ^bthe things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may do all the words of this law.