The Lord Is God

³² Ask^(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? ³³ Has any other people heard the voice of God^[a] speaking out of fire, as you have, and lived?^{(E) 34} Has 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?

³⁹ Acknowledge^(A) and take to heart this day that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other.^{(B) 40} Keep^(C) his decrees and commands,^(D) which I am giving you today, so that it may go well^(E) with you and your children after you and that you may live long^(F) in the land the Lord your God gives you for all time.