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22 “And the generation to come, your sons who rise up after you and (A)the foreigner who comes from a distant land, shall see the plagues of the land and the diseases with which Yahweh has [a]afflicted it, and they will say, 23 ‘All its land is (B)brimstone and salt, (C)a burning waste, [b]unsown and nothing sprouting, and no grass grows in it, like the overthrow of (D)Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in His anger and in His wrath.’ 24 And all the nations will say, ‘(E)Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? Why this great burning anger?’

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 29:22 Lit made it sick
  2. Deuteronomy 29:23 Lit it is not sown and does not cause to sprout

22 Your children who follow you in later generations and foreigners who come from distant lands will see the calamities that have fallen on the land and the diseases with which the Lord has afflicted it.(A) 23 The whole land will be a burning waste(B) of salt(C) and sulfur—nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah,(D) Admah and Zeboyim, which the Lord overthrew in fierce anger.(E) 24 All the nations will ask: “Why has the Lord done this to this land?(F) Why this fierce, burning anger?”

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