Deuteronomy 29:25-28

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

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

27Therefore the Lord’s anger burned against this land, so that he brought on it all the curses written in this book.

28In furious anger and in great wrath the Lord uprooted them from their land and thrust them into another land, as it is now.”