Deuteronomy 4:31-33  New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

³¹ Because the Lord your God is a merciful God, he will neither abandon you nor destroy you; he will not forget the covenant with your ancestors that he swore to them.^(A)

³² “For ask now about former ages, long before your own, ever since the day that God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of heaven to the other: Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has its like ever been heard of?^{(B) 33} Has any people ever heard the voice of a god speaking out of a fire, as you have heard, and lived?^(C)