Deuteronomy 32:29
If only they were wise, || They would deal wisely [with] this, || They would attend to their latter end!
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
In Context
28For they [are] a nation lost to counsels, || And there is no understanding in them.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 5:29O that their heart had been thus to them, to fear Me and to keep My commands [for] all the days, that it may be well with them and with their sons for all time!
Psalms 107:15They confess to YHWH His kindness, || And His wonders to the sons of men.
Isaiah 10:3And what do you do at a day of inspection? And at desolation that comes from afar? Near whom do you flee for help? And where do you leave your glory?
Isaiah 47:7And you say, I am mistress for all time, || While you have not laid these things to your heart, || You have not remembered the latter end of it.
Jeremiah 5:31The prophets have prophesied falsely, || And the priests bear rule by their means, || And My people have loved [it] so, || And what do they do at its latter end?”
Lamentations 1:9Her uncleanness [is] in her skirts, || She has not remembered her latter end, || And she comes down wonderfully, || There is no comforter for her. See, O YHWH, my affliction, || For an enemy has exerted himself.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 32:27-39
26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: 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. 29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! 30 How should one chase a thousand,… Read the whole commentary →