²⁵“When you have had children and grandchildren^o and you have grown old in the land and you act corruptly and you make a divine image of the form of anything and you do evil in the eyes of Yahweh your God, thus provoking him to anger, ²⁶I call^p to witness against you today the heaven and the earth, that you will perish soon and completely from the land that you are crossing the Jordan into it to take possession of it; you will not live long on it,^q but you will be completely destroyed. ²⁷And Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number^r among the nations to where Yahweh will lead you.^s ²⁸And you will there serve gods made by human hands,^t of wood and stone, gods that cannot see and cannot hear and cannot eat and cannot smell. ²⁹But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God and will find him, if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.^u ³⁰In your distress^v when^w all these things have found you in the latter days,^x then^y you will return to Yahweh your God, and you will listen to his voice. ³¹For Yahweh your God is a compassionate God; he will not abandon you,^z and he will not destroy you, and he will not forget the covenant of your ancestors^a that he swore to them.

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Deuteronomy 4:29: But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Footnotes

oLiterally “children of children”
pOr “I shall call to witness”
qLiterally “you will not extend days”
rLiterally “people of number,” as opposed to people without number
sLiterally “he will lead Yahweh you there”
tLiterally “the work of the hands of human”
uOr “inner self”
vLiterally “In the distress for you”
wHebrew “and”
xLiterally “in the last of the days”
yHebrew “and”
zLiterally “will not leave you alone”
aOr “fathers”