²⁵ When you produce children and grandchildren and you have remained a long time in the land, and you corrupt yourselves and make a graven image, or the likeness of anything, and do evil in the sight of the Lord your God, to provoke Him to anger, ²⁶ I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will surely and suddenly perish from off the land that you are going across the Jordan to possess. You will not prolong your days on it, but shall be completely destroyed. 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.