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21 Then Yahweh will separate him out for [a]adversity from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant (A)which are written in this book of the law.

22 “And the generation to come, your sons who rise up after you and (B)the foreigner who comes from a distant land, shall see the plagues of the land and the diseases with which Yahweh has [b]afflicted it, and they will say, 23 ‘All its land is (C)brimstone and salt, (D)a burning waste, [c]unsown and nothing sprouting, and no grass grows in it, like the overthrow of (E)Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in His anger and in His wrath.’

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 29:21 Lit evil
  2. Deuteronomy 29:22 Lit made it sick
  3. Deuteronomy 29:23 Lit it is not sown and does not cause to sprout

21 The Lord will single them out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster,(A) according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.(B)

22 Your children who follow you in later generations and foreigners who come from distant lands will see the calamities that have fallen on the land and the diseases with which the Lord has afflicted it.(C) 23 The whole land will be a burning waste(D) of salt(E) and sulfur—nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah,(F) Admah and Zeboyim, which the Lord overthrew in fierce anger.(G)

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