Deuteronomy 29:27

27 So {the anger of Yahweh was kindled} against that land to bring upon it all the curses written in this scroll,

Deuteronomy 29:27 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 29:27

And the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land
For this their idolatry and base ingratitude:

to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book;
in this book of Deuteronomy, and particularly ( Deuteronomy 28:16-68 ) ; see ( Daniel 9:11 ) .

Deuteronomy 29:27 In-Context

25 And they will say, '[It is] because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, which he {made} with them {when he brought them out} from the land of Egypt.

26 And they went and served other gods and bowed down to them, gods whom they did not know them and he had not allotted to them.

27 So {the anger of Yahweh was kindled} against that land to bring upon it all the curses written in this scroll,

28 and Yahweh uprooted them from their land in anger and in wrath and in great fury, and he cast them into another land, {just as it is today}.'

29 "The hidden [things] {belong to Yahweh} our God, but the revealed [things] {belong to us} [to know] and to our children {forever}, [in order] to do all the words of this law."

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "became hot the nose of Yahweh"