Ver. 22. So that the generation— It is in the Hebrew, and the generation. The paragraph is new, and has no dependence on what precedes; consequently, so that is a translation which misleads the reader. The meaning is, "whenever your impieties arrive at such a height as to bring your nation under the terrible desolation before spoken of, [ch. 28:] Providence will do it in such a manner as shall convince all considerate persons, that it is the effect of the just judgment of heaven upon your disobedience, and a perfect completion of the very threats now left on record."
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Deuteronomy 29:22
22 So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;