Deuteronomy 32:29 · KJV
“O that they were wise, {that} they understood this, {that} they would consider their latter end!”
— Deuteronomy 32:29
For they {are} a nation void of counsel, neither {is there any} understanding in them.
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?
Deuteronomy 32 — Context
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. {Our...: or, Our high hand, and not the LORD hath done}
28For they {are} a nation void of counsel, neither {is there any} understanding in them.
29O that they were wise, {that} they understood this, {that} they would consider their latter end!
30How 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?
31For their rock {is} not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves {being} judges.
Cross References
Psalms 81:13
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, {and} Israel had walked in my ways!
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!
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.
Luke 19:41-42
And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
Psalms 107:43
Whoso {is} wise, and will observe these {things}, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
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? {thy...: Gr. do they require thy soul}
Luke 16:19-25
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
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.