21 Then the Lord will single him out for disaster from all the tribes of Israel, in accordance with all the curses of the covenant (A)which is written in this Book of the Law.

22 “Now the future generation, your sons who rise up after you and (B)the foreigner who comes from a distant land, when they see the plagues of that land and the diseases with which the Lord has afflicted it, will say, 23 ‘All its land is (C)brimstone and salt, (D)burned debris, [a]unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows on it, like the overthrow of (E)Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and in His wrath.’

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 29:23 Lit it is not sown and does not make plants 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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