Deuteronomy 4:31

For the Lord thy God is a merciful God ,.... In Christ, in whom he has proclaimed his name as such, of which Moses had a comfortable view, Exodus 34:6 and therefore could attest it from his own knowledge and experience:

he will not forsake thee ; though in a strange country, but bring them from thence into their own land again, and favour them with his gracious presence in his house and ordinances:

neither destroy thee ; from being a people; and in a very wonderful manner are they preserved among the nations of the earth to this day:

nor forget the covenant of thy fathers, which he sware unto them ; that a Saviour should come and turn away ungodliness from them, and take away their sins; see Romans 11:26 .