²²Your children who follow you in later generations and foreigners who come from distant lands will see the calamities that have fallen on the land and the diseases with which the Lord has afflicted it.^h ²³The whole land will be a burning wasteⁱ of salt^j and sulfur—nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah,^k Admah and Zeboyim, which the Lord overthrew in fierce anger.^l ²⁴All the nations will ask: “Why has the Lord done this to this land?^m Why this fierce, burning anger?”

²⁵And the answer will be: “It is because this people abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, the covenant he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt.ⁿ ²⁶They went off and worshiped other gods and bowed down to them, gods they did not know, gods he had not given them. ²⁷Therefore the Lord’s anger burned against this land, so that he brought on it all the curses written in this book.^o ²⁸In furious anger and in great wrath^p the Lord uprooted^q them from their land and thrust them into another land, as it is now.”

²⁹The secret things belong to the Lord our God,^r but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.^s

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Cross references

h Jer 19:8; 49:17; 50:13
i Isa 1:7; 6:11; 9:18; 64:10; Jer 12:11; 44:2, 6; Mic 5:11
jSee Ge 13:10; Eze 47:11
kSee Ge 19:24, 25; Zep 2:9; See Mt 10:15; Ro 9:29
lSee Ge 14:8
m 1 Ki 9:8; 2 Ch 36:19; Jer 16:10; 22:8–9; 52:13
n 2 Ki 17:23; 2 Ch 36:21
oSee Dt 28:15
p Ps 7:11
q 1 Ki 14:15; 2 Ch 7:20; Ps 9:6; 52:5; Pr 2:22; Jer 12:14; 31:28; 42:10; Eze 19:12
r Ac 1:7
s Jn 5:39; Ac 17:11; 2 Ti 3:16