28. And you will there serve gods made by human hands, of wood and stone, gods that cannot see and cannot hear and cannot eat and cannot smell.
29. But 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.
30. In your distress when all these things have found you in the latter days, then you will return to Yahweh your God, and you will listen to his voice.
31. For Yahweh your God is a compassionate God; he will not abandon you, and he will not destroy you, and he will not forget the covenant of your ancestors that he swore to them.
32. “Yes, ask, please, about former days that preceded you from the day that God created humankind on the earth; ask even from one end of the heaven up to the other end of heaven whether anything ever happened like this great thing or whether anything like it was ever heard.