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22 “And the next generation, that is, your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a distant land, when[a] they will see the plagues of that land and its diseases that Yahweh has inflicted upon it, will say, 23 ‘All its land is brimstone and salt left by fire, none of its land will be sown,[b] and it will not make plants sprout out and it will not grow any vegetation; it is as the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Adman and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overturned in his anger and in his wrath.’ 24 And all the nations will say, ‘Why[c] has Yahweh done such a thing[d] to this land? What caused the fierceness of this great anger?’

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 29:22 Hebrew “and”
  2. Deuteronomy 29:23 Literally “all of its land will not be sown”
  3. Deuteronomy 29:24 Literally “On what basis
  4. Deuteronomy 29:24 Literally “so”