Deuteronomy 4:23-31

23Take heed to yourselves lest ye forget the covenant of Jehovah your 1God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a graven image, the form of anything which Jehovah thy 2God hath forbidden thee.

24For Jehovah thy 3God is a consuming fire, a jealous 4God.

25When thou begettest sons, and sons' sons, and ye have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, the form of anything, and do evil in the sight of Jehovah thy 5God, to provoke him to anger,

26I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye pass over the Jordan to possess it: ye shall not prolong your days on it, but shall be utterly destroyed.

27And Jehovah will scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left a small company among the nations to which Jehovah will lead you.

28And ye shall there serve 6gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

29And from thence ye shall seek Jehovah thy 7God, and thou shalt find him, if thou shalt seek him with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul.

30In thy tribulation, and when all these things shall come upon thee, at the end of days, thou shalt return to Jehovah thy 8God, and shalt hearken to his voice,

31— for Jehovah thy 9God is a merciful 10God, — he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he swore unto them.