Deuteronomy 32:29 If only they were wise and would understand this and discern what their end will be!

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
If only they were wise and would understand this and discern what their end will be!

English Standard Version
If they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern their latter end!

New American Standard Bible
"Would that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would discern their future!

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If only they were wise, they would figure it out; they would understand their fate.

International Standard Version
O, that they were wise to understand this and consider their future!

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

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

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

Young's Literal Translation
If they were wise -- They deal wisely with this; They attend to their latter end:

Cross References

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!

Deuteronomy 31:29
For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.

Psalm 90:12
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.

Isaiah 47:7
And you said, I shall be a lady for ever: so that you did not lay these things to your heart, neither did remember the latter end of it.

Isaiah 48:18
O that you had listened to my commandments! then had your peace been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:

Lamentations 1:9
Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembers not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy has magnified himself.

Haggai 2:18
Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD's temple was laid, consider it.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

32:26-38 The idolatry and rebellions of Israel deserved, and the justice of God seemed to demand, that they should be rooted out. But He spared Israel, and continues them still to be living witnesses of the truth of the Bible, and to silence unbelievers. They are preserved for wise and holy purposes and the prophecies give us some idea what those purposes are. The Lord will never disgrace the throne of his glory. It is great wisdom, and will help much to the return of sinners to God, seriously to consider their latter end, or the future state. It is here meant particularly of what God foretold by Moses, about this people in the latter days; but it may be applied generally. Oh that men would consider the happiness they will lose, and the misery they will certainly plunge into, if they go on in their trespasses! What will be in the end thereof? Jer 5:31. For the Lord will in due time bring down the enemies of the church, in displeasure against their wickedness. When sinners deem themselves most secure, they suddenly fall into destruction. And God's time to appear for the deliverance of his people, is when things are at the worst with them. But those who trust to any rock but God, will find it fail them when they most need it. The rejection of the Messiah by the Jewish nation, is the continuance of their ancient idolatry, apostacy, and rebellion. They shall be brought to humble themselves before the Lord, to repent of their sins, and to trust in their long-rejected Mediator for salvation. Then he will deliver them, and make their prosperity great.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

29. Oh, … that they would consider their latter end—The terrible judgments, which, in the event of their continued and incorrigible disobedience, would impart so awful a character to the close of their national history.