rsv Deuteronomy:4:24-31
rsv@Deuteronomy:4:24 @ For the LORD your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
rsv@Deuteronomy:4:25 @ "When you beget children and children's children, and have grown old in the land, if you act corruptly by making a graven image in the form of anything, and by doing what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, so as to provoke him to anger,
rsv@Deuteronomy:4:26 @ I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you are going over the Jordan to possess; you will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.
rsv@Deuteronomy:4:27 @ And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you.
rsv@Deuteronomy:4:28 @ And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of men's hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
rsv@Deuteronomy:4:29 @ But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
rsv@Deuteronomy:4:30 @ When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, you will return to the LORD your God and obey his voice,
rsv@Deuteronomy:4:31 @ for the LORD your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers which he swore to them.