So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’
It appears by the length of the sentences here, and by the copiousness and pungency of the expressions, that Moses, now that he was drawing near to the close of his discourse, was very warm and zealous, and very desirous to impress what he said upon the minds of this unthinking people.
Commenting on Deuteronomy 29:10-29
Then men shall say,.... The answer that will be returned to the above questions will be this because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers: breakers of covenants with men are always reckoned among the worst of men, see Rom 1:31; and especially breakers of covenant with God, and with such a God as the God of Israel was, so...
Deu 29:24-25 “What is this great burning of wrath?” i.e., what does it mean - whence does it come? The reply to such a question would be (Deu 29:25-29): The inhabitants of the land have forsaken the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers; therefore has the wrath of the Lord burned over the land.
Commenting on Deuteronomy 29:24-25