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23 ‘All its land is brimstone and salt left by fire, none of its land will be sown,[a] 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[b] has Yahweh done such a thing[c] to this land? What caused the fierceness of this great anger?’ 25 And they will say,[d]It is because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their ancestors,[e] which he made[f] with them when he brought them out[g] from the land of Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 29:23 Literally “all of its land will not be sown”
  2. Deuteronomy 29:24 Literally “On what basis
  3. Deuteronomy 29:24 Literally “so”
  4. Deuteronomy 29:25 Or “answer/respond”
  5. Deuteronomy 29:25 Or “fathers”
  6. Deuteronomy 29:25 Literally “cut”
  7. Deuteronomy 29:25 Literally “at/in his to bring them out from the land of Egypt”