Deuteronomy 32:28
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They are a nation without counsel, and without wisdom.

Deuteronomy 32:6 Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and made thee, and created thee?

Job 28:28 And he said to man: Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom: and to depart from evil, is understanding.

Psalm 81:12 So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.

Proverbs 1:7 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Isaiah 27:11 Its harvest shall be destroyed with drought, women shall come and teach it: for it is not a wise people, therefore he that made it, shall not have mercy on it: and he that formed it, shall not spare it.

Isaiah 29:14 Therefore behold I will proceed to cause an admiration in this people, by a great and wonderful miracle: for wisdom shall perish from their wise men, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

Jeremiah 4:22 For my foolish people have not known me: they are foolish and senseless children: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Jeremiah 8:9 The wise men are confounded, they are dismayed, and taken: for they have cast away the word of the Lord, and there is no wisdom in them.

Hosea 4:6 My people have been silent, because they had no knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will reject thee, that thou shalt not do the office of priesthood to me: and thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.

Matthew 13:14,15 And the prophecy of Isaias is fulfilled in them, who saith: By hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand: and seeing you shall see, and shall not perceive. . . .

Romans 11:25 For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery (lest you should be wise in your own conceits) that blindness in part has happened in Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles should come in.

1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written: I will catch the wise in their own craftiness.

Context
The Song of Moses
27But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred it: lest perhaps their enemies might be proud, and should say: Our mighty hand, and not the Lord, hath done all these things. 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.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:6
Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and made thee, and created thee?

Isaiah 27:11
Its harvest shall be destroyed with drought, women shall come and teach it: for it is not a wise people, therefore he that made it, shall not have mercy on it: and he that formed it, shall not spare it.

Lexicon
Israel
הֵ֑מָּה (hêm·māh)
Pronoun - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1992: They

is a nation
ג֛וֹי (ḡō·w)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts

devoid
אֹבַ֥ד (’ō·ḇaḏ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 6: To wander away, lose oneself, to perish

of counsel
עֵצ֖וֹת (‘ê·ṣō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6098: Advice, plan, prudence

with no
וְאֵ֥ין (wə·’ên)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

understanding
תְּבוּנָֽה׃ (tə·ḇū·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8394: Intelligence, an argument, caprice

among them.
בָּהֶ֖ם (bā·hem)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew


Additional Translations
Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them.For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.

For they are a nation void of counsel, And there is no understanding in them.

It is a nation that has lost counsel, neither is there understanding in them.

For they are a nation void of counsel, And understanding is not in them.

For they are a nation void of counsel, And there is no understanding in them.

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

For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.

For a nation lost to counsels are they, And there is no understanding in them.
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