 But when they were in distress and they searched for God with all their heart and soul, returned to God, and obeyed God, then they would find God, even there.For God is a compassionate God, Who would not fail them, let them perish, or forget the covenant that God made with their fathers.Moses invited the Israelites to consider whether any people had ever heard the voice of a god speaking out of a fire and survived, or any god had taken one nation from the midst of another by prodigious acts and awesome power as their God had done for them in Egypt before their very eyes.