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Deuteronomy 32:29
If only they were wise, if only this was clear to them, and they would give thought to their future!
Deuteronomy 32:29 · Bible in Basic English
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Deuteronomy 32:29 in other translations
O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
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In context
26 I said I would send them wandering far away, I would make all memory of them go from the minds of men:
27 But for the fear that their haters, uplifted in their pride, might say, Our hand is strong, the Lord has not done all this.
28 For they are a nation without wisdom; there is no sense in them.
29 If only they were wise, if only this was clear to them, and they would give thought to their future!
30 How would it be possible for one to overcome a thousand, and two to send ten thousand in flight, if their rock had not let them go, if the Lord had not given them up?
31 For their rock is not like our Rock, even our haters themselves being judges.
32 For their vine is the vine of Sodom, from the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are the grapes of evil, and the berries are bitter:
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