Deuteronomy 32:29

Wisdom The future and plans

²⁷ Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.

²⁸ For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.

O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

³⁰ How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?

³¹ For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
KJV: O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
WEB: Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
ASV: Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!
DARBY: Oh that they had been wise! they would have understood this, They would have considered their latter end!
BLB: If only they were wise, [that] they understood this, they would consider their latter end!

ÅB: Dersom de var vise, ville de forstå dette, skjønne hva ende det vil ta med dem.
OTB: Hvis de hadde visdom, ville de forstå dette; de ville skjelne deres endelige skjebne!
B1930: Dersom de var vise, vilde de forstå dette, skjønne hvad ende det vil ta med dem.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Psalms 81:13
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
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Deuteronomy 5:29
O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!
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Hosea 14:9
Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
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Luke 19:41–42
And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
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Luke 12:20
But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
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Psalms 107:43
Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
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Isaiah 48:18–19
O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
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Isaiah 47:7
And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.
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