Deuteronomy 29:22
20 The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
21 and single him out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.
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?’
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- 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.
- KJV
- So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;
- WEB
- The generation to come—your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a far land—will say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which the LORD has made it sick,
- ASV
- And the generation to come, your children that shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses wherewith Jehovah hath made it sick;
- DARBY
- And the generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and its sicknesses wherewith Jehovah hath visited it,
- BLB
- And the latter generation of your⁺ sons who rise up after you⁺, and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, will say when they see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses that YHWH has laid on it:
- ÅB
- Og når den kommende slekt, deres barn som vokser opp etter dere, og den fremmede som kommer fra et fjernt land, ser de plager som har rammet dette land, og de sykdommer som Herren har hjemsøkt det med
- OTB
- Fremtidige generasjoner—deres etterkommere som reiser seg etter dere og utlendinger fra fjerne land—vil se de ulykkene som har rammet landet og de sykdommene som Herren har påført det.
- B1930
- Og når den kommende slekt, eders barn som vokser op efter eder, og den fremmede som kommer fra et fjernt land, ser de plager som har rammet dette land, og de sykdommer som Herren har hjemsøkt det med
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 19:8
I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
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