Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Deuteronomy 29:24
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So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’
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Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what [meaneth] the heat of this great anger?
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Even all the nations will say, “Why has the LORD done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?”
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even all the nations shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
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Deuteronomy 29
22 Then the generation to come—your sons who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land—will see the plagues of the land and the sicknesses the LORD has inflicted on it.
23 All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.
24 So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’
25 And the people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.
26 They went and served other gods, and they worshiped gods they had not known—gods that the LORD had not given to them.
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