23And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath:
24Truly all the nations will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land? what is the reason for this great and burning wrath?
25Then men will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he took them out of the land of Egypt:
26And they went after other gods and gave them worship, gods who were strange to them, and whom he had not given them:
27And so the wrath of the Lord was moved against this land, to send on it all the curse recorded in this book:
28Rooting them out of their land, in the heat of his wrath and passion, and driving them out into another land, as at this day.
29The secret things are the Lord our God's: but the things which have been made clear are ours and our children's for ever, so that we may do all the words of this law.
