26. I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.
27. The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations, where the Lord will lead you away.
28. There you shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
29. But from there you shall seek the Lord your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
30. When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to the Lord your God, and listen to his voice.
31. For the Lord your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.
32. For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?
33. Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
34. Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
35. It was shown to you so that you might know that the Lord is God. There is no one else besides him.