27 The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and there shall remain but a handful of you among the nations to which the Lord will drive you.
28 There you shall serve gods that are works of human hands, of wood and stone, gods which can neither see nor hear, neither eat nor smell.
29 Yet when you seek the Lord, your God, from there, you shall indeed find him if you search after him with all your heart and soul.
30 In your distress, when all these things shall have come upon you, you shall finally return to the Lord, your God, and listen to his voice.
31 Since the Lord, your God, is a merciful God, he will not abandon or destroy you, nor forget the covenant with your ancestors that he swore to them.
32 Ask now of the days of old, before your time, ever since God created humankind upon the earth; ask from one end of the sky to the other: Did anything so great ever happen before? Was it ever heard of?
33 Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of fire, as you did, and live?