Deuteronomy 29:24 “So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to th…”

Deuteronomy 29:24

So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

World English Bible

Even all the nations will say, “Why has the LORD done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?”

American Standard Version

even all the nations shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

Geneva Bible 1599

Then shall all nations say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus vnto this lande? how fierce is this great wrath?

Darby Translation

even all nations shall say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? whence the heat of this great anger?

Young's Literal Translation

yea, all the nations have said, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus to this land? what the heat of this great anger?

Bible in Basic English

Truly all the nations will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land? what is the reason for this great and burning wrath?

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Cross references

“Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?”

Lamentations 2:15–17 Lamentations 4:12 Ezekiel 14:23 Romans 2:5 1 Kings 9:8 1 Kings 9:9

Lamentations 2:15–17 · BSB

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?”

Lamentations 4:12 · BSB

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.

Ezekiel 14:23 · BSB

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.”

Romans 2:5 · BSB

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.

1 Kings 9:8 · BSB

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?’

1 Kings 9:9 · BSB

And others will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—because of this, the LORD has brought a…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

23All 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.

25And 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.

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