Deuteronomy 29:21-23

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²¹ And utterly destroy him out of all the tribes of Israel, according to the curses that are contained in the book of this law and covenant:

²² And the following generation shall say, and the children that shall be born hereafter, and the strangers that shall come from afar, seeing the plagues of that land and the evils wherewith the Lord hath afflicted it,

²³ Burning it with brimstone, and the heat of salt, so that it cannot be sown any more, nor any green thing grow therein, after the example of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord destroyed in his wrath and indignation: