Deuteronomy 29:18-28

18Be sure there is no man, woman, clan, or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the Lord our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Be sure there is no root among you bearing poisonous and bitter fruit.

19When someone hears the words of this oath, he may consider himself exempt, thinking, ‘I will have peace even though I follow my own stubborn heart.’ This will lead to the destruction of the well-watered land as well as the dry land.

20The Lord will not be willing to forgive him. Instead, his anger and jealousy will burn against that person, and every curse written in this scroll will descend on him. The Lord will blot out his name under heaven,

21and single him out for harm from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law.

22“Future generations of your children who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant country will see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses the Lord has inflicted on it.

23All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown, producing nothing, with no plant growing on it, just like the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord demolished in his fierce anger.

24All the nations will ask, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this land? Why this intense outburst of anger?’

25Then people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he had made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

26They began to serve other gods, bowing in worship to gods they had not known  — gods that the Lord had not permitted them to worship.

27Therefore the Lord’s anger burned against this land, and he brought every curse written in this book on it.

28The Lord uprooted them from their land in his anger, rage, and intense wrath, and threw them into another land where they are today.’