24. Even all the nations shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?
25. Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them forth out of the land of Egypt.
26. For they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they knew not and that He had not given to them.
27. So the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, bringing upon it all the curses that are written in this book.
28. And the Lord rooted them out of their land in anger and in wrath and in great indignation and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
29. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God, but the things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all of the words of this law.