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30 In your distress[a] when[b] all these things have found you in the latter days,[c] then[d] you will return to Yahweh your God, and you will listen to his voice. 31 For Yahweh your God is a compassionate God; he will not abandon you,[e] and he will not destroy you, and he will not forget the covenant of your ancestors[f] that he swore to them.

32 “Yes, ask, please, about former days that preceded you[g] from the day that God created humankind on the earth; ask even from one end of the heaven up to the other end of heaven whether anything ever happened[h] like this great thing or whether anything like it was ever heard.[i]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 4:30 Literally “In the distress for you”
  2. Deuteronomy 4:30 Hebrew “and”
  3. Deuteronomy 4:30 Literally “in the last of the days”
  4. Deuteronomy 4:30 Hebrew “and”
  5. Deuteronomy 4:31 Literally “will not leave you alone”
  6. Deuteronomy 4:31 Or “fathers”
  7. Deuteronomy 4:32 Literally “that they were to the face of you”
  8. Deuteronomy 4:32 Literally “was it ever
  9. Deuteronomy 4:32 Literally “was it ever heard as it”