23. Look at all its land burned by sulfur and salt, unsuitable for planting, unable to grow or produce any vegetation, as devastated as Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord devastated in anger and wrath!
24. Indeed, all nations will ask: Why did the Lord do this to this land? What led to this terrible display of anger?
25. They will deduce: It was because those people abandoned the covenant of the Lord, their ancestors’ God, which he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt.
26. They followed other gods, serving them and worshipping them—other gods that they hadn’t experienced before and that the Lord hadn’t designated for them.
27. Then the Lord’s anger burned against that land, and he brought against it every curse written in this scroll.