^{25 Ref} If, when you have had children and children's children, and have been living a long time in the land, you are turned to evil ways, and make an image of any sort, and do evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, moving him to wrath:

^{26 Ref} May heaven and earth be my witnesses against you today, that destruction will quickly overtake you, cutting you off from that land which you are going over Jordan to take; your days will not be long in that land, but you will come to a complete end.

^{27 Ref} And the Lord will send you wandering among the peoples; only a small band of you will be kept from death among the nations where the Lord will send you.

^{28 Ref} There you will be the servants of gods, made by men's hands, of wood and stone, having no power of seeing or hearing or taking food or smelling.

^{29 Ref} But if in those lands you are turned again to the Lord your God, searching for him with all your heart and soul, he will not keep himself from you.

^{30 Ref} When you are in trouble and all these things have come on you, if, in the future, you are turned again to the Lord your God, and give ear to his voice:

^{31 Ref} Because the Lord your God is a God of mercy, he will not take away his help from you or let destruction overtake you, or be false to the agreement which he made by an oath with your fathers.