Deuteronomy 29:24

THE MESSAGE

All the nations will ask, "Why did God do this to this country? What on earth could have made him this angry?"

Parallel Translations

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

Hebrew Names Version
even all the nations shall say, Why has the LORD done thus to this land? what means the heat of this great anger?

King James Version
Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

Lexham English Bible
And all the nations will say, ‘Why has Yahweh done such a thing to this land? What caused the fierceness of this great anger?'

English Standard Version
all the nations will say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?'

New Century Version
All the other nations will ask, "Why has the Lord done this to the land? Why is he so angry?"

New English Translation
Then all the nations will ask, "Why has the Lord done all this to this land? What is this fierce, heated display of anger all about?"

Amplified Bible
"All the nations will say, 'Why has the LORD done this thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?'

New American Standard Bible
"All the nations will say, 'Why has the LORD done all this to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?'

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then shall all nations say, Wherefore hath the Lorde done thus vnto this lande? how fierce is this great wrath?

Legacy Standard Bible
And all the nations will say, ‘Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? Why this great burning anger?'

Contemporary English Version
People from other nations will ask, "Why did the Lord destroy this country? Why was he so furious?"

Complete Jewish Bible
People will answer, ‘It's because they abandoned the covenant of Adonai , the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
"All the other nations will ask, ‘Why did the Lord do this to this land? Why was he so angry?'

George Lamsa Translation
And all the nations shall say, Why has the LORD done thus to this land? And why has his anger kindled so much?

Good News Translation
Then the whole world will ask, ‘Why did the Lord do this to their land? What was the reason for his fierce anger?'

Literal Translation
And all the nations shall say, Why has Jehovah done this to this land? For what is the heat of this great anger?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then shall all nacions saye: Wherfore hath the LORDE done thus vnto this londe? What greate wrothfull displeasure is this?

American Standard Version
even all the nations shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

Bible in Basic English
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?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Euen then shal all nations say: Wherfore hath the Lord done on this fashion vnto this lande? O howe fierse is this great wrath?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
then men shall say: 'Because they forsook the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them forth out of the land of Egypt;

King James Version (1611)
Euen al nations shal say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus vnto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and all the nations shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land? what is this great fierceness of anger?

English Revised Version
even all the nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

Berean Standard Bible
All the nations will ask, 'Why has the LORD done this to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?'

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And alle folkis schulen seie, Whi dide the Lord so to this lond? What is the greet ire of his stronge veniaunce?

Young's Literal Translation
yea, all the nations have said, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus to this land? what the heat of this great anger?

Update Bible Version
even all the nations shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? what [is the meaning of] the heat of this great anger?

Webster's Bible Translation
Even all the nations shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus to this land? what [meaneth] the heat of this great anger?

World English Bible
even all the nations shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? what means the heat of this great anger?

New King James Version
All nations would say, "Why has the LORD done so to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?'

New Living Translation
"And all the surrounding nations will ask, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this land? Why was he so angry?'

New Life Bible
All the nations will say, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this land? Why was He so angry?'

New Revised Standard
they and indeed all the nations will wonder, "Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What caused this great display of anger?"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
yea all the nations will say, For what cause, hath Yahweh done, thus, unto this land? what meaneth this great heat of anger?

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

Revised Standard Version
yea, all the nations would say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land? What means the heat of this great anger?'

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"All the nations will say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?'

Contextual Overview

¹⁰You are all standing here today in the Presence of God , your God—the heads of your tribes, your leaders, your officials, all Israel: your babies, your wives, the resident foreigners in your camps who fetch your firewood and water—ready to cross over into the solemnly sworn Covenant that God , your God, is making with you today, the Covenant that this day confirms that you are his people and he is God , your God, just as he promised you and your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. ¹⁴I'm not making this Covenant and its oath with you alone. I am making it with you who are standing here today in the Presence of God , our God, yes, but also with those who are not here today. You know the conditions in which we lived in Egypt and how we crisscrossed through nations in our travels. You got an eyeful of their obscenities, their wood and stone, silver and gold junk-gods. Don't let down your guard lest even now, today, someone—man or woman, clan or tribe—gets sidetracked from God , our God, and gets involved with the no-gods of the nations; lest some poisonous weed sprout and spread among you, a person who hears the words of the Covenant-oath but exempts himself, thinking, "I'll live just the way I please, thank you," and ends up ruining life for everybody. God won't let him off the hook. God 's anger and jealousy will erupt like a volcano against that person. The curses written in this book will bury him. God will delete his name from the records. God will separate him out from all the tribes of Israel for special punishment, according to all the curses of the Covenant written in this Book of Revelation. ²²The next generation, your children who come after you and the foreigner who comes from a far country, will be appalled when they see the widespread devastation, how God made the whole land sick. They'll see a fire-blackened wasteland of brimstone and salt flats, nothing planted, nothing growing, not so much as a blade of grass anywhere—like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which God overthrew in fiery rage. ²⁴ All the nations will ask, "Why did God do this to this country? What on earth could have made him this angry?" ²⁵Your children will answer, "Because they abandoned the Covenant of the God of their ancestors that he made with them after he got them out of Egypt; they went off and worshiped other gods, submitted to gods they'd never heard of before, gods they had no business dealing with. So God 's anger erupted against that land and all the curses written in this book came down on it. God , furiously angry, pulled them, roots and all, out of their land and dumped them in another country, as you can see." ²⁹ God , our God, will take care of the hidden things but the revealed things are our business. It's up to us and our children to attend to all the terms in this Revelation.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Kings 9:8, 1 Kings 9:9, 2 Chronicles 7:21, 2 Chronicles 7:22, Jeremiah 22:8, Jeremiah 22:9, Lamentations 2:15-17, Lamentations 4:12, Ezekiel 14:23, Romans 2:5

Reciprocal: Exodus 11:8 - a great anger Leviticus 26:32 - and your Deuteronomy 31:17 - Are not these Judges 6:13 - why then Judges 21:3 - why is 1 Samuel 4:3 - Wherefore 1 Kings 14:15 - this good land 2 Kings 18:12 - they obeyed not 2 Kings 22:17 - have forsaken 2 Chronicles 6:36 - thou be angry 2 Chronicles 28:6 - because Ezra 5:12 - he gave Job 18:20 - astonied Psalms 18:8 - went Isaiah 23:8 - Who hath Jeremiah 5:19 - Wherefore Jeremiah 6:18 - hear Jeremiah 16:10 - Wherefore Jeremiah 40:2 - The Lord Ezekiel 5:15 - an instruction Ezekiel 12:16 - and they Ezekiel 20:48 - General Ezekiel 21:5 - all Ezekiel 22:4 - have I Ezekiel 32:10 - amazed Amos 3:9 - and behold

Cross-References

Genesis 16:1
Sarai, Abram's wife, hadn't yet produced a child. She had an Egyptian maid named Hagar. Sarai said to Abram, " God has not seen fit to let me have a child. Sleep with my maid. Maybe I can get a family from her." Abram agreed to do what Sarai said.

Genesis 24:59
So they sent them off, their sister Rebekah with her nurse, and Abraham's servant with his men. And they blessed Rebekah saying, You're our sister—live bountifully! And your children, triumphantly!

Genesis 29:9
While Jacob was in conversation with them, Rachel came up with her father's sheep. She was the shepherd. The moment Jacob spotted Rachel, daughter of Laban his mother's brother, saw her arriving with his uncle Laban's sheep, he went and single-handedly rolled the stone from the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban. Then he kissed Rachel and broke into tears. He told Rachel that he was related to her father, that he was Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father. When Laban heard the news—Jacob, his sister's son!—he ran out to meet him, embraced and kissed him and brought him home. Jacob told Laban the story of everything that had happened.

Genesis 46:18
These are the children that Zilpah, the maid that Laban gave to his daughter Leah, bore to Jacob—sixteen of them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Even all nations shall say,.... For the destruction of this land, and the people of it, would be, as it has been, so very great and awful, and so very remarkable and surprising, that the fame of it would be heard among all the nations of the world, as it has been; who, upon hearing the sad report of it, would ask the following questions:

wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? so distinguished from all others for the fruitfulness and pleasantness of it; the people, the inhabitants of which, he chose, above all others, to be a special and peculiar people; and where he had a temple built for him, and where he had his residence, and worship used to be given unto him:

what [meaneth] the heat of this great anger? what is the reason of his stirring up his fierce wrath, and causing it to burn in so furious a manner? surely it must be something very horrible and provoking indeed!