Deuteronomy 32:29
in Deuteronomy 32If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!
KJV
O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
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This verse in Deuteronomy 32
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThat they would consider their latter end! - אחריתם archaritham, properly, their latter times - the glorious days of the Messiah, who, according to the flesh, should spring up among them. Should they carefully consider this subject, and receive the promised Savior, they would consequently act as persons under infinite obligations to God; his strength would be their shield, and then: -
This site's exposition
For they are a nation void of counsel
on Deuteronomy 32:28-30
One chasing a thousand is the promise of Leviticus 26:8 and Joshua 23:10 run backwards, since there Israel does the chasing and here it is the one chased. Sold them is the word Judges 2:14 and 3:8 use for what God does with Israel when it turns, so the defeat is put as a transaction rather than a failure of strength. Their latter end in verse 29 is the thing the song says they will not consider, and the whole chapter was given at 31:19 as a witness for the day they do.
The record, by era
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
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.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ל֥וּ | lu | if | H3863 → | |
| חָכְמ֖וּ | chakhemu | they were wise | H2449 → | |
| יַשְׂכִּ֣ילוּ | yaskilu | they will comprehend | H7919 → | |
| זֹ֑את | zot | this | H2063 → | 603 times |
| יָבִ֖ינוּ | yavinu | they will understand | H995 → | 170 times |
| לְאַחֲרִיתָֽם׃ | leacharitam | <to> end their | H319 → | 61 times |
ל֥וּif
luH3863 →
חָכְמ֖וּthey were wise
chakhemuH2449 →
יַשְׂכִּ֣ילוּthey will comprehend
yaskiluH7919 →
זֹ֑אתthis
zotH2063 →603 times
יָבִ֖ינוּthey will understand
yavinuH995 →170 times
לְאַחֲרִיתָֽם׃<to> end their
leacharitamH319 →61 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 81:13If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways,
it leads to
- Isaiah 48:18
If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Deuteronomy 5:29
If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever.
- Isaiah 48:18
Through
Deuteronomy 5:29If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever.
it leads to
- Matthew 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Matthew 23:37
Through
Hosea 14:9Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, and the righteous walk in them but the rebellious stumble in…
it leads to
- Proverbs 10:29
The way of the LORD is a refuge to the upright, but destruction awaits those who do evil.
- Psalms 107:43
Let him who is wise pay heed to these things and consider the loving devotion of the LORD.
- Proverbs 10:29
Through
Luke 12:20But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
it leads to
- Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
- Jeremiah 17:11
Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will…
- 1 Timothy 6:7
For we brought nothing into the world, so we cannot carry anything out of it.
- Job 27:8
Where this verse is studied
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About Deuteronomy
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.