Deuteronomy 4:25–31

²⁵“When you have children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, and if you act corruptly, make an idol in the form of anything, and do what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, provoking Him to anger, ²⁶I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will quickly perish ^vfrom the land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not live long there, but you will certainly be destroyed. ²⁷The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, ^wand you will be reduced to a few survivors ^xamong the nations where the Lord your God will drive you. ²⁸There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see, hear, eat, or smell. ²⁹But from there, you will search for the Lord your God, and you will find Him when you seek Him with all your heart and all your soul. ^y30When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, you will return to the Lord your God in later days and obey Him. ³¹He will not leave you, destroy you, or forget the covenant ^zwith your fathers that He swore to them by oath, because the Lord your God is a compassionate God. ^a