Deuteronomy 29:23-25

The Voice

²³ “This whole place is a burned-out wasteland of sulfur and salt! No one plants anything here because nothing grows here—not even grass! It’s like what happened when He destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah,^[a] Admah and Zeboiim, when He was so furious with those cities.” ²⁴ People from the surrounding nations will say, “But why did the Eternal do this to this land? Why did He get so furiously angry?” ²⁵ And bystanders will answer, “Because they abandoned the covenant the Eternal, the God of their ancestors, made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.