22 "Now the generation to come , your sons who rise up after e you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land , when they see the plagues of the land and the diseases with which the Lord has afflicted it, will say , 23 'All its land is brimstone and salt , a burning waste, unsown e and unproductive e , and no e grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah , Admah and Zeboiim , which the Lord overthrew in His anger and in His wrath .' 24 "All the nations will say , ' Why e has the Lord done thus to this land ? Why this great outburst of anger ?'
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Deuteronomy 29:22-24
Commentary on Deuteronomy 29:22-28
(Read Deuteronomy 29:22-28)
Idolatry would be the ruin of their nation. It is no new thing for God to bring desolating judgments on a people near to him in profession. He never does this without good reason. It concerns us to seek for the reason, that we may give glory to God, and take warning to ourselves. Thus the law of Moses leaves sinners under the curse, and rooted out of the Lord's land; but the grace of Christ toward penitent, believing sinners, plants them again in their land; and they shall no more be pulled up, being kept by the power of God.