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? "
— Deuteronomy 29:24, American Standard Version
“Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?”
“even all the nations shall say, "Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?"”
“Then all the nations will ask,“Why has the LORD done all this to this land? What is this fierce, heated display of anger all about?””
“And all the nations shall say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land? what meaneth this exceeding great heat of his wrath?”
“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?”
“Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?”
And Jehovah will set him apart unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.
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;
and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
even all the nations shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,
and went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods that they knew not, and that he had not given unto them:
therefore the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book;