Deuteronomy 4:25–31

²⁵“When you beget children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, and act corruptly and make a carved image in the form of anything, and ⁱdo evil in the sight of the Lord your God to provoke Him to anger, ^26jI call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess; you will not ⁸prolong your days in it, but will be utterly destroyed. ²⁷And the Lord ^kwill scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you. ²⁸And ^lthere you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, ^mwhich neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell. ²⁹ⁿBut from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. ³⁰When you are in ⁹distress, and all these things come upon you in the ^olatter days, when you ^pturn to the Lord your God and obey His voice ³¹(for the Lord your God is a merciful God), He will not forsake you nor ^qdestroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.