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)