23 So all of you, watch yourselves! Don’t forget the covenant that the Lord your God made with you by making an idol or an image of any kind or anything the Lord your God forbids,
24 because the Lord your God is an all-consuming fire. He is a passionate God.
25 Once you have had children and grandchildren and have grown old on the land, if you ruin things by making an idol, in any form whatsoever, and do what is evil in the eyes of the Lord your God and anger him,
26 I call heaven and earth as my witnesses against you today: You will definitely disappear—and quickly—from the land that you are crossing over the Jordan River to possess. You won’t extend your time there but will instead be totally destroyed.
27 The Lord will scatter you among the nations. Only a very few of you will survive in the countries where the Lord will drag you.
28 There you will worship other gods, made of wood and stone by human hands—gods that cannot see, listen, eat, or smell.
29 You will seek the Lord your God from there, and you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your being.