27 And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall remain in a small number among the nations to which the LORD shall lead you.

28 And there you will serve gods, made by human hands of wood and stone, who do not see or hear, neither eat nor smell.

29 But when thou seekest the Lord thy God there, thou shalt find him, if thou seekest him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

30 And when thou shalt be in tribulation, and when all these things shall come upon thee in the end of time, thou shalt turn unto the Lord thy God, and shalt hearken unto his voice.

31 The LORD thy God is a God [good and] merciful; He will not forsake you, nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant with your fathers, which he sworn to them.

32 For ask of the former times that were before you, from the day that God created man on earth, and from one end of heaven to the other end of heaven, Has there ever been anything like this great work, or has it been heard?

33 Did [what] people heard the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, and lived, as thou hast heard?

34 Or hath any god attempted to go and take a people from among another people, with plagues, signs, and wonders, and with war, and with a mighty hand, and with a high arm, and with great terrors, as the Lord your God has done for you in Egypt before your eyes?

35 It has been given to thee to see this, that thou mayest know that only the Lord [thy God] is God, [and] there is none besides Him;

36 From heaven he gave thee to hear his voice to teach thee, and on earth hath shewed thee his great fire, and thou hast heard his words out of the midst of the fire.

37 and because he loved thy fathers, and chose their descendants after them, he himself brought thee out of Egypt by his great might,

38 To drive out from before thee the nations that are greater and stronger than thee, and to bring thee in, and to give thee their land for an inheritance, as is now seen.

39 Therefore know now, and put it in your heart, that the Lord [your God] is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath, [and] there is not yet [besides Him];

40 And thou shalt keep his statutes and his commandments which I command thee this day, that it may be well with thee and with thy sons after thee, and that thou mayest tarry much time in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for ever.