Deuteronomy 32:29
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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.

Lexicon
If only
ל֥וּ (lū)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 3863: If, would that!

they were wise,
חָכְמ֖וּ (ḥā·ḵə·mū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2449: To be wise

they would understand
יַשְׂכִּ֣ילוּ (yaś·kî·lū)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7919: To be, circumspect, intelligent

it;
זֹ֑את (zōṯ)
Pronoun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2063: Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that,

they would comprehend
יָבִ֖ינוּ (yā·ḇî·nū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 995: To separate mentally, understand

their fate.
לְאַחֲרִיתָֽם׃ (lə·’a·ḥă·rî·ṯām)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 319: The last, end, the future, posterity


Additional Translations
If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!

They had not sense to understand: let them reserve these things against the time to come.

Oh that they had been wise! they would have understood this, They would have considered their latter end!

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!

O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

If they were wise -- They deal wisely with this; They attend to their latter end:
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