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New Life Version

Deuteronomy 29:24

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Judgments;   The Topic Concordance - Covenant;   Curses;   Forsaking;   Heart;   Idolatry;   Service;   Turning;   Worship;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Life;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Nebuzaradan;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Deuteronomy, the Book of;   Sodom and Gomorrah;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Gomorrha;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Deuteronomy;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Arzareth;   Gentile;  

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

10 "Today you all stand before the Lord your God, you, your rulers, your families, your leaders, all the men of Israel, 11 your children, your wives, the stranger who is among your tents, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who gets your water. 12 You are here to take part in the agreement with the Lord your God, and in His promise which the Lord your God is making with you today. 13 So today He will make you His people. He will be your God, just as He told you and as He promised your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 14 "I am not making this agreement and this promise with you alone. 15 I am making them with those who stand here with us today before the Lord our God, and with those who are not here with us today. 16 You know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we passed through the land of the nations on our way here. 17 You have seen their sinful things and their gods of wood, stone, silver and gold, which they had with them. 18 Be careful not to have any man or woman or family or group among you whose heart turns away from the Lord our God today to go and worship the gods of those nations. Do not let there be a root among you giving poison fruit and bad-tasting plants. 19 When one hears the words of this curse, he will say in his pride, ‘I have peace even though I am strong-willed in my heart.' This will destroy the land that is watered along with the dry land.

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
Now Abram's wife Sarai had not given birth to any children. She had a woman servant from Egypt whose name was Hagar.
Genesis 24:59
So they sent away their sister Rebekah and her nurse. They went with Abraham's servant and the men who were with him.
Genesis 29:9
He was still talking with them when Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she cared for them.
Genesis 29:12
Jacob told Rachel that he was of her father's family, the son of Rebekah. And she ran and told her father.
Genesis 46:18
These are the sons of Jacob and Zilpah, the woman whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah. She gave birth to sixteen of Jacob's children.

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!


 
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