Deuteronomy 32:29
Good News Translation
They fail to see why they were defeated; they cannot understand what happened.

New Revised Standard Version
If they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern what the end would be.

Contemporary English Version
If you did, you could see where you are headed.

New American Bible
If they had insight they would realize this, they would understand their end:

Douay-Rheims Bible
O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end.

O that

Deuteronomy 5:29 Who shall give them to have such a mind, to fear me, and to keep all my commandments at all times, that it may be well with them and with their children for ever?

Psalm 81:13 If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways:

Psalm 107:15,43 Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, and his wonderful works to the children of men. . . .

Isaiah 48:18,19 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments: thy peace had been as a river, and thy justice as the waves of the sea, . . .

Hosea 14:9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know these things? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall in them.

Luke 19:41,42 And when he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it, saying: . . .

they would

Isaiah 10:3 What will you do in the day of visitation, and of the calamity which cometh from afar? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

Isaiah 47:7 And thou hast said: I shall be a lady for ever: thou hast not laid these things to thy heart, neither hast thou remembered thy latter end.

Jeremiah 5:31 The prophets prophesied falsehood, and the priests clapped their hands: and my people loved such things: what then shall be done in the end thereof?

Jeremiah 17:11 As the partridge hath hatched eggs which she did not lay: so is he that hath gathered riches, and not by right: in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and in his latter end he shall be a fool.

Lamentations 1:9 Teth. Her filthiness is on her feet, and she hath not remembered her end; she is wonderfully cast down, not having a comforter: behold, O Lord, my affliction, because the enemy is lifted up.

Luke 12:20 But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee. And whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?

Luke 16:19-25 There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and feasted sumptuously every day. . . .

Context
The Song of Moses
28They are a nation without counsel, and without wisdom. 29O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end.30How should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase ten thousand? Was it not, because their God had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 5:29
Who shall give them to have such a mind, to fear me, and to keep all my commandments at all times, that it may be well with them and with their children for ever?

Deuteronomy 31:29
For I know that, after my death, you will do wickedly, and will quickly turn aside form the way that I have commanded you: and evils shall come upon you in the latter times, when you shall do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him by the works of your hands.

Psalm 90:12
Can number thy wrath? So make thy right hand known: and men learned in heart, in wisdom.

Isaiah 47:7
And thou hast said: I shall be a lady for ever: thou hast not laid these things to thy heart, neither hast thou remembered thy latter end.

Isaiah 48:18
O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments: thy peace had been as a river, and thy justice as the waves of the sea,

Lamentations 1:9
Teth. Her filthiness is on her feet, and she hath not remembered her end; she is wonderfully cast down, not having a comforter: behold, O Lord, my affliction, because the enemy is lifted up.

Haggai 2:18
Set your hearts from this day, and henceforward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month: from the day that the foundations of the temple of the Lord were laid, and lay it up in your hearts.

Deuteronomy 32:28
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