Deuteronomy 4:24-40

²⁴For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

²⁵“When you father children and have grandchildren, and you grow old in the land, and you act corruptly, and make an idol in the form of anything, and do what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God to provoke Him to anger, ²⁶I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today, that you will certainly perish quickly from the land where you are going over the Jordan to take possession of it. You will not live long on it, but will be utterly destroyed. ²⁷The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord drives you. ²⁸There you will serve gods, the work of human hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear, nor eat nor smell anything. ²⁹But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. ³⁰When you are in distress and all these things happen to you, in the latter days you will return to the Lord your God and listen to His voice. ³¹For the Lord your God is a compassionate God; He will not abandon you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant with your fathers which He swore to them.

³²“Indeed, ask now about the earlier days that were before your time, since the day that God created mankind on the earth, and inquire from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything been done like this great thing, or has anything been heard like it? ³³Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, and survived? ³⁴Or has a god ventured to go to take for himself a nation from within another nation by trials, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, just as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? ³⁵You were shown these things so that you might know that the Lord, He is God; there is no other besides Him. ³⁶Out of the heavens He let you hear His voice to discipline you; and on earth He let you see His great fire, and you heard His words from the midst of the fire. ³⁷Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them. And He personally brought you from Egypt by His great power, ³⁸driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in and to give you their land as an inheritance, as it is today. ³⁹Therefore know today, and take it to your heart, that the Lord, He is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other. ⁴⁰So you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I am giving you today, so that it may go well for you and for your children after you, and that you may live long on the land which the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”