24All the nations will ask: "Why has the Lord done this to this land? Why this fierce, burning anger?"


In Context

21 The Lord will 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.

22 Your children who follow you in later generations and foreigners who come from distant lands will see the calamities that have fallen on the land and the diseases with which the Lord has afflicted it.

23 The whole land will be a burning waste of salt and sulfur-nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in fierce anger.

24 All the nations will ask: "Why has the Lord done this to this land? Why this fierce, burning anger?"

25 And the answer will be: "It is because this people abandoned the covenant of the Lord , the God of their fathers, the covenant he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt.

26 They went off and worshiped other gods and bowed down to them, gods they did not know, gods he had not given them.

Deuteronomy 29:24 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

29:24Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what [meaneth] the heat of this great anger?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

29:24And all the nations shall say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land? what meaneth this exceeding great heat of his wrath?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

29:24even all the nations shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

29:24even all nations shall say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? whence the heat of this great anger?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

29:24even all the nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

29:24Even all the nations shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus to this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

29:24even all the nations shall say, |Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

29:24yea, all the nations have said, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus to this land? what the heat of this great anger?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

29:24Even all nations shall say, Why has the LORD done thus to this land? what means the heat of this great anger?