22 “In the future, your descendants and foreigners from faraway countries will see how the land has been ruined. They will see the diseases that the Lord has brought to it.
23 All the land will be useless—destroyed by burning sulfur and covered with salt. The land will have nothing planted in it. Nothing will be growing—not even weeds. The land will be destroyed like Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, the cities the Lord destroyed when he was very angry.
24 “All the other nations will ask, ‘Why did the Lord do this to this land? Why was he so angry?’
25 The answer will be, ‘This happened because the Israelites left the agreement of the Lord, the God of their ancestors. They stopped following the agreement he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt.
26 The Israelites started serving other gods—gods they never worshiped before. The Lord told his people not to worship those gods.
27 That is why the Lord became very angry with the people of this land. So he brought to them all the curses that are written in this book.
28 The Lord became very angry and upset with them. So he took them out of their land. He put them in another land, where they are today.’