Deuteronomy 29:22-24

Contemporary English Version

²² The Lord will strike your country with diseases and disasters. Your descendants and foreigners from distant countries will see that your land ^23 (A) has become a scorching desert of salt and sulfur, where nothing is planted, nothing sprouts, and nothing grows. It will be as lifeless as the land around the cities of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, after the Lord became angry and destroyed them.^[a]

²⁴ People from other nations will ask, “Why did the Lord destroy this country? Why was he so furious?”