25 “When you father children and children’s children, and have grown old in the land, and you act corruptly by making a carved 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, 26 ^bI call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will ^csoon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed. 27 And the Lord will ^dscatter you among the peoples, and you will be left ^efew in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you.