^29:22The generation to come—your descendants who will rise up after you, as well as the foreigner who will come from distant places—will see³² the afflictions of that land and the illnesses that the Lord has brought on it. ^29:23The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his intense anger.³³^29:24Then all the nations will ask, “Why has the Lord done all this to this land? What is this fierce, heated display of anger³⁴ all about?” ^29:25Then people will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. ^29:26They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they did not know and that he did not permit them to worship.³⁵^29:27That is why the Lord’s anger erupted against this land, bringing on it all the curses³⁶ written in this scroll. ^29:28So the Lord has uprooted them from their land in anger, wrath, and great rage and has deported them to another land, as is clear today.” ^29:29Secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those that are revealed belong to us and our descendants³⁷ forever, so that we might obey all the words of this law.

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Footnotes

32 Heb “will say and see.” One expects a quotation to appear, but it seems to be omitted. To avoid confusion in the translation, the verb “will say” is omitted.
33 Heb “the anger and the wrath.” This construction is a hendiadys intended to intensify the emotion.
34 Heb “this great burning of anger”; “the heat of this great anger.”
35 Heb “did not assign to them”; , “had not allotted to them.”
36 Heb “the entire curse.”
37 Heb “sons” (so ); , , , “children.”