Deuteronomy 32:28
It is a nation that has lost counsel, neither is there understanding in them.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
In Context
29They had not sense to understand: let them reserve these things against the time to come.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:6Do you⌃ thus recompense the Lord? is the people thus foolish and unwise? did not he himself your father purchase you, and make you, and form you?
Isaiah 27:11And after a time there shall be in it no green thing because of the grass being parched. Come hither, you⌃ women that come + 27:11 See Heb. from a sight; for it is a people of no understanding; therefore he that made them shall have no pity upon them, and he that formed them shall have no mercy upon them.
Jeremiah 4:22For the princes of my people have not known me, they are foolish and unwise children: they are wise to do evil, but how to do good they have not known.
Hosea 4:6My people are like as if they had no knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall not minister as priest to me: and as you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
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 →