23. ‘All its land is brimstone and salt left by fire, none of its land will be sown, 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 has Yahweh done such a thing to this land? What caused the fierceness of this great anger?’
25. And they will say, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out from the land of Egypt.
26. And they went and served other gods and bowed down to them, gods whom they did not know them and he had not allotted to them.
27. So the anger of Yahweh was kindled against that land to bring upon it all the curses written in this scroll,
28. and Yahweh uprooted them from their land in anger and in wrath and in great fury, and he cast them into another land, just as it is today.’
29. “The hidden things belong to Yahweh our God, but the revealed things belong to us to know and to our children forever, in order to do all the words of this law.”