27. The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the Lord will drive you.
28. There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.
29. But if from there you 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 have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the Lord your God and obey him.
31. For the Lord your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your ancestors, which he confirmed to them by oath.
32. Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of?