Deuteronomy 29:28
And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day. And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
The verse foretells that the Lord would uproot Israel from its own land in anger and wrath and great indignation and cast them into another land because of their sins and disobedience. The anger described brings judgment upon both people and land, uprooting its inhabitants for sin. The closing words as it is this day are spoken in advance from the standpoint of the surrounding nations who would one day witness that punishment when it arrived, not as a statement that exile had already taken place at the time Moses spoke. Those who held the other explanation taught instead that the closing phrase may have been inserted later by Ezra or another scribe who had seen the desolation of the Babylonian captivity. Such language does not in itself prove that Moses could not have authored the Pentateuch.
The verse belongs among the prophecies concerning the Jews, given as a prediction of what would come upon them for disobedience that can be tested by its fulfillment. It predicts the days of vengeance that fell in the destruction of Jerusalem, when God punished His people for all neglected opportunities and unperformed duties and for their final rejection of Christ. That sentence became visibly real in the desolation of Galilee, where the once thickly populated country around the lake lay largely empty and in ruins.