^{23 Ref} And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath:

^{24 Ref} 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?

^{25 Ref} Then men will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he took them out of the land of Egypt: