27 The Lord shall scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations where the Lord shall lead you.
28 There you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.
29 But if from there you will seek the Lord your God, you will find Him, if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
30 When you are in distress and all these things come upon you, even in the latter days, if you turn to the Lord your God and shall be obedient to His voice
31 (for the Lord your God is a merciful God), He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.
32 Indeed, ask about the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heavens to the other, whether there has ever been any such thing as this great thing, or has anything like it ever been heard?
33 Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and lived?