Deuteronomy 29:24
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.
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.
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.
Compare
- BSB
- So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’
- KJV
- Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
- WEB
- Even all the nations will say, “Why has the LORD done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?”
- ASV
- even all the nations shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
- DARBY
- even all nations shall say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? whence the heat of this great anger?
- BLB
- And all the nations will say, ‘What has YHWH done to this land upon thus? Why the heat of this great anger?’
- ÅB
- ja, alle folkene skal si: Hvorfor har Herren gjort slik mot dette land? Hva er dette for en svær vredes-ild?
- OTB
- Alle nasjonene vil spørre: ‘Hvorfor har Herren gjort dette mot dette landet? Hvorfor denne store intensiteten av vrede?’
- B1930
- ja, alle folkene skal si: Hvorfor har Herren gjort således mot dette land? Hvad er dette for en svær vredes-ild?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 22:8–9
And many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?’
Read in context1 Kings 9:8–9
And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’
Read in contextRomans 2:5
But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
Read in contextLamentations 2:15–17
All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
Read in contextLamentations 4:12
The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any people of the world, that an enemy or a foe could enter the gates of Jerusalem.
Read in context2 Chronicles 7:21–22
And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’
Read in contextEzekiel 14:23
They will bring you consolation when you see their conduct and actions, and you will know that it was not without cause that I have done all these things within it,’ declares the Lord GOD.”
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