Deuteronomy 29:22-28

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 ?' ²⁵ "Then men will say , ' Because e they forsook 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 worshiped them, gods whom they have not known and whom He had not allotted to them. ²⁷ 'Therefore, the anger of the Lord burned against that land , to bring upon it every curse which is written in this book ; ²⁸ and the Lord uprooted them from their land in anger and in fury and in great wrath , and cast them into another land , as it is this day .'