Deuteronomy 32:29

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If only they were wise, if only this was clear to them, and they would give thought to their future!

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  • Deut 5:29 : 29 If only they had such a heart in them at all times, so that they might go in fear of me and keep my orders and that it might be well for them and for their children for ever!
  • Ps 81:13 : 13 If only my people would give ear to me, walking in my ways!
  • Isa 47:7 : 7 And you said, I will be a queen for ever: you did not give attention to these things, and did not keep in mind what would come after.
  • Lam 1:9 : 9 In her skirts were her unclean ways; she gave no thought to her end; and her fall has been a wonder; she has no comforter: see her sorrow, O Lord; for the attacker is lifted up.
  • Hos 14:9 : 9 As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit.
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?
  • Luke 16:19-25 : 19 Now there was a certain man of great wealth, who was dressed in fair clothing of purple and delicate linen, and was shining and glad every day. 20 And a certain poor man, named Lazarus, was stretched out at his door, full of wounds, 21 Desiring the broken bits of food which came from the table of the man of wealth; and even the dogs came and put their tongues on his wounds. 22 And in time the poor man came to his end, and angels took him to Abraham's breast. And the man of wealth came to his end, and was put in the earth. 23 And in hell, being in great pain, lifting up his eyes he saw Abraham, far away, and Lazarus on his breast. 24 And he gave a cry and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, so that he may put the end of his finger in water and put it on my tongue, for I am cruelly burning in this flame. 25 But Abraham said, Keep in mind, my son, that when you were living, you had your good things, while Lazarus had evil things: but now, he is comforted and you are in pain.
  • Luke 19:41-42 : 41 And when he got near and saw the town, he was overcome with weeping for it, 42 Saying, If you, even you, had knowledge today, of the things which give peace! but you are not able to see them.
  • Isa 48:18-19 : 18 If only you had given ear to my orders, then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea: 19 Your seed would have been like the sand, and your offspring like the dust: your name would not be cut off or come to an end before me.
  • Jer 5:31 : 31 The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?
  • Jer 17:11 : 11 Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.
  • Ps 107:15 : 15 Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men!
  • Ps 107:43 : 43 Let the wise give thought to these things, and see the mercies of the Lord.
  • Isa 10:3 : 3 And what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the destruction which is coming from far? to whom will you go for help, and what will become of your glory?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 32:26-28
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    26I said I would send them wandering far away, I would make all memory of them go from the minds of men:

    27But for the fear that their haters, uplifted in their pride, might say, Our hand is strong, the Lord has not done all this.

    28For they are a nation without wisdom; there is no sense in them.

  • Deut 32:30-31
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    30How 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?

    31For their rock is not like our Rock, even our haters themselves being judges.

  • Deut 5:29
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    29If only they had such a heart in them at all times, so that they might go in fear of me and keep my orders and that it might be well for them and for their children for ever!

  • Jer 4:22
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    22For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.

  • Ps 94:8
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    8Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?

  • Prov 19:20
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    20Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.

  • Jer 5:4
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    4Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.

  • Jer 8:9
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    9The wise men are shamed, they are overcome with fear and taken: see, they have given up the word of the Lord; and what use is their wisdom to them?

  • Job 32:9
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    9It is not the old who are wise, and those who are full of years have not the knowledge of what is right.

  • Isa 29:14-15
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    14For this cause I will again do a strange thing among this people, a thing to be wondered at: and the wisdom of their wise men will come to nothing, and the sense of their guides will no longer be seen.

    15Cursed are those who go deep to keep their designs secret from the Lord, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who has knowledge of our acts?

  • Ps 73:17
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    17Till I went into God's holy place, and saw the end of the evil-doers.

  • Ps 81:13
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    13If only my people would give ear to me, walking in my ways!

  • Deut 32:37
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    37And he will say, Where are their gods, the rock in which they put their faith?

  • Ps 90:12
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    12So give us knowledge of the number of our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.

  • Job 34:27
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    27Because they did not go after him, and took no note of his ways,

  • Isa 44:18
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    18They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.

  • Ps 107:27
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    27They are turned here and there, rolling like a man who is full of wine; and all their wisdom comes to nothing.

  • Prov 1:29-32
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    29For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:

    30They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.

    31So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full.

    32For the turning back of the simple from teaching will be the cause of their death, and the peace of the foolish will be their destruction.

  • Prov 28:5
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    5Evil men have no knowledge of what is right; but those who go after the Lord have knowledge of all things.

  • Num 32:15
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    15For if you are turned away from him, he will send them wandering again in the waste land; and you will be the cause of the destruction of all this people.

  • Jer 5:21
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    21Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:

  • Job 28:28
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    28And he said to man, Truly the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to keep from evil is the way to knowledge.

  • Job 13:5
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    5If only you would keep quiet, it would be a sign of wisdom!

  • Deut 32:6
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    6Is this your answer to the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? Is he not your father who has given you life? He has made you and given you your place.

  • Prov 14:8
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    8The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.

  • Ps 50:22
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    22Now keep this in mind, you who have no memory of God, for fear that you may be crushed under my hand, with no one to give you help:

  • Job 34:16
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    16If you are wise, take note of this; give ear to the voice of my words.

  • Deut 32:20
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    20And he said, My face will be veiled from them, I will see what their end will be: for they are an uncontrolled generation, children in whom is no faith.

  • Prov 17:24
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    24Wisdom is before the face of him who has sense; but the eyes of the foolish are on the ends of the earth.

  • Job 32:13
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    13Take care that you do not say, Wisdom is here; God may overcome him, but not man.

  • Deut 31:29
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    29For I am certain that after my death you will give yourselves up to sin, wandering from the way which I have given you; and evil will overtake you in the end, because you will do evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath by the work of your hands.

  • Ps 107:43
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    43Let the wise give thought to these things, and see the mercies of the Lord.

  • Job 4:21
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    21If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?

  • Deut 4:6
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    6So keep these laws and do them; for so will your wisdom and good sense be clear in the eyes of the peoples, who hearing all these laws will say, Truly, this great nation is a wise and far-seeing people.

  • Isa 41:20
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    20So that they may see and be wise and give their mind to it, and that it may be clear to them all that the hand of the Lord has done this, and that the Holy One of Israel has made it.

  • Prov 14:33
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    33Wisdom has her resting-place in the mind of the wise, but she is not seen among the foolish.

  • Ps 107:31
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    31Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men!

  • Job 36:12
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    12But if not, they come to their end, and give up their breath without knowledge.

  • Jer 23:22
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    22But if they had been in my secret, then they would have made my people give ear to my words, turning them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

  • Ps 39:4
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    4Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.

  • Ps 2:10
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    10So now be wise, you kings: take his teaching, you judges of the earth.

  • Isa 31:2
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    2Though he is wise, and able to send evil, and his purpose will not be changed; but he will go against the house of the evil-doers, and against those to whom they are looking for help.

  • Ps 14:2
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    2The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.