Deuteronomy 29:22–29

²²The next generation, your children who rise up after you, as well as the foreigner who comes from a distant country, will see the devastation of that land and the afflictions with which the Lord has afflicted it^*—²³all its soil burned out by sulfur and salt, nothing planted, nothing sprouting, unable to support any vegetation, like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his fierce anger^*—²⁴they and indeed all the nations will wonder, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What caused this great display of anger?’^{* 25}They will conclude, ‘It is 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. ²⁶They turned and served other gods, worshiping them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not allotted to them; ²⁷so the anger of the Lord was kindled against that land, bringing on it every curse written in this book. ²⁸The Lord uprooted them from their land in anger, fury, and great wrath and cast them into another land, as is now the case.’^{* 29}The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things belong to us and to our children forever, to observe all the words of this law.