Deuteronomy 4:25–31

²⁵“When you ¹become the father of children and children’s children and have remained long in the land, and ^aact corruptly, and ^bmake an ²idol in the form of anything, and ^cdo that which is evil in the sight of the Lord your God so as to provoke Him to anger,

²⁶I ^acall heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will ^bsurely perish quickly from the land where you are going over the Jordan to possess it. You shall not ¹live long on it, but will be utterly destroyed.

²⁷“The Lord will ^ascatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord drives you.

²⁸“^aThere you will serve gods, the work of man’s hands, ^bwood and stone, ^cwhich neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.

²⁹“^aBut from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him ^bwith all your heart and all your soul.

³⁰“When you ^aare in distress and all these things have come upon you, ^bin the latter days ^cyou will return to the Lord your God and listen to His voice.

³¹“For the Lord your God is a ^acompassionate God; ^bHe will not fail you nor ^cdestroy you nor ^dforget the covenant with your fathers which He swore to them.