Deuteronomy 4:25–31

²⁵When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and ^oshall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and ^pshall do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, ^pto provoke him to anger: ^26qI call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed. ²⁷And the Lord ^rshall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left ^sfew in number among the heathen, whither the Lord shall lead you. ²⁸And ^tthere ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, ^uwhich neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. ^29wBut if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. ³⁰When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, ^xeven in the latter days, if thou ^yturn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice; ³¹(for the Lord thy God is ^za merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.