28. There you will worship gods made by human hands – wood and stone that can neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.
29. But if you seek the Lord your God from there, you will find him, if, indeed, you seek him with all your heart and soul.
30. In your distress when all these things happen to you in the latter days, if you return to the Lord your God and obey him
31. (for he is a merciful God), he will not let you down or destroy you, for he cannot forget the covenant with your ancestors that he confirmed by oath to them.
32. Indeed, ask about the distant past, starting from the day God created humankind on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether there has ever been such a great thing as this, or even a rumor of it.
33. Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it?