Deuteronomy 4:32-40

International Standard Version

Who is Like the Lord?

³²“Indeed, ask from one end of the heavens to the other about days of old, before your time, when God created mankind on the earth. Did we ever have anything as great as this, or ever hear of anything like it? ³³Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of a fire just as you did,^[a] and survived it? ³⁴Or has any god ever taken for himself one nation out from another nation with testings, signs, wonders, wars, awesome power,^[b] and magnificent, terrifying deeds^[c] as the Lord your God did in Egypt before your eyes?

³⁵“You have been shown this in order to know that ‘the Lord is God’ and there is no one like him. ³⁶You have been made to hear his voice from heaven so you may be instructed.^[d] And he showed you his great fire here on earth, and you heard his voice from the middle of that fire. ³⁷Moreover, he loved your ancestors, chose their descendants after them, and brought you out of Egypt, accompanied by his presence and great power, ³⁸in order to drive out nations that are stronger and more powerful than you, to bring you into this land,^[e] and to give you their land as an inheritance, as it is today.

³⁹“May you acknowledge and take to heart this day that the Lord is God in the heavens above and over the earth below—there is no other God.^[f] ⁴⁰May you observe his statutes and keep his commands that I’m giving you today, so that life may go well for you and for your descendants after you. That way, you’ll live a long life in the land that the Lord your God is about to give you permanently.”^[g]

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Footnotes

Deuteronomy 4:33 Lit. heard
Deuteronomy 4:34 Lit. wars, a mighty hand and an outstretched arm,
Deuteronomy 4:34 The Heb. lacks deeds
Deuteronomy 4:36 Or disciplined
Deuteronomy 4:38 The Heb. lacks this land
Deuteronomy 4:39 The Heb. lacks God
Deuteronomy 4:40 Lit. all the days

Deuteronomy 4:32-40

New International Version

The Lord Is God

³²Ask^(A) now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth;^(B) ask from one end of the heavens to the other.^(C) Has anything so great^(D) as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of? ³³Has any other people heard the voice of God^[a] speaking out of fire, as you have, and lived?^(E) ³⁴Has any god ever tried to take for himself one nation out of another nation,^(F) by testings,^(G) by signs^(H) and wonders,^(I) by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm,^(J) or by great and awesome deeds,^(K) like all the things the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

³⁵You were shown these things so that you might know that the Lord is God; besides him there is no other.^(L) ³⁶From heaven he made you hear his voice^(M) to discipline^(N) you. On earth he showed you his great fire, and you heard his words from out of the fire. ³⁷Because he loved^(O) your ancestors and chose their descendants after them, he brought you out of Egypt by his Presence and his great strength,^(P) ³⁸to drive out before you nations greater and stronger than you and to bring you into their land to give it to you for your inheritance,^(Q) as it is today.

³⁹Acknowledge^(R) and take to heart this day that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other.^(S) ⁴⁰Keep^(T) his decrees and commands,^(U) which I am giving you today, so that it may go well^(V) with you and your children after you and that you may live long^(W) in the land the Lord your God gives you for all time.