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Deuteronomy 32:29 KJV
Deuteronomy · chapter 32 · verse 29
O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!Deuteronomy 32:29 · King James Version
Deuteronomy 32:29 in context
27Were 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.
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.
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Key words (Strong's)
- understoodsâkalto be circumspect and hence, intelligentH7919 →
- considerbîynto separate mentallyH995 →
- wisechâkamto be wiseH2449 →
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After many terrible threatenings of deserved wrath and vengeance, we have here surprising intimations of mercy, undeserved mercy, which rejoices against judgment, and by which it appears that God has no pleasure in the death of sinners, but would rather they should turn and live. I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 26-38