Deuteronomy 32:29

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If only they were wise and would understand this, they would comprehend their latter end.

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  • Deut 5:29 : 29 Oh, that their hearts would always fear Me and keep all My commands, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!
  • Ps 81:13 : 13 So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their hearts to follow their own counsels.
  • Isa 47:7 : 7 You said, 'I will be a mistress forever,' but you did not take these things to heart or remember their outcome.
  • Lam 1:9 : 9 Her uncleanness clings to her skirts; she did not consider her future. Her fall was astounding; there was no one to comfort her. "Look, LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed."
  • Hos 14:9 : 9 Ephraim, what more have I to do with idols? I will answer him and care for him. I am like a flourishing cypress; your fruit comes from me.
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said to him, 'Fool! This very night your soul will be required of you, and the things you have prepared—who will they belong to?'
  • Luke 16:19-25 : 19 "There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. 20 At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores. 21 He longed to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 "The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried. 23 In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. 24 So he called to him, 'Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.' 25 But Abraham replied, 'Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, and you are in agony.'
  • Luke 19:41-42 : 41 As he approached and saw the city, he wept over it. 42 He said, 'If you had known on this day, even you, the things that would bring you peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.'
  • Isa 48:18-19 : 18 If only you had paid attention to My commands, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea. 19 Your descendants would have been as numerous as the sand, and your offspring like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed from before Me.
  • Jer 5:31 : 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. And My people love it this way. But what will you do in the end?
  • Jer 17:11 : 11 Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay, so is one who gains wealth by unjust means. In the middle of his life, it will desert him, and in the end, he will prove to be a fool.
  • Ps 107:15 : 15 Let them give thanks to the LORD for His steadfast love and His wonderful deeds for mankind.
  • Ps 107:43 : 43 Let whoever is wise heed these things and consider the lovingkindness of the LORD.
  • Isa 10:3 : 3 What will you do on the day of punishment, when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth?

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  • 83%

    26I said I would scatter them and erase their memory from mankind,

    27but I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say, 'Our own hand has triumphed; it was not the LORD who did all this.'

    28For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.

  • 77%

    30How could one chase a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them and the LORD had handed them over?

    31For their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies concede this.

  • 29Oh, that their hearts would always fear Me and keep all My commands, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!

  • 22For my people are foolish; they do not know me. They are senseless children and have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they do not know how to do good.

  • 8Understand this, you brutish people! Fools, when will you understand?

  • 20Listen to advice and accept discipline, so that you may become wise in the future.

  • 4Then I thought, 'These are only the poor; they are foolish because they do not know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.'

  • 9The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?

  • 9It is not merely the old who are wise, nor the aged who understand what is right.

  • Isa 29:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14Therefore, I will again do extraordinary things with this people, with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of their wise will perish, and the understanding of their discerning will vanish.

    15Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the LORD, who do their work in darkness and think, 'Who sees us? Who knows us?'

  • 17Until I entered the sanctuary of God; then I understood their final destiny.

  • 13So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their hearts to follow their own counsels.

  • 37And He will say: 'Where are their gods? The rock they sought refuge in?

  • 12Teach us to number our days carefully, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

  • 27Because they turned away from following Him and did not regard any of His ways,

  • 18They have no knowledge or understanding; their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see, and their hearts so they cannot understand.

  • 27They reeled and staggered like drunkards, and all their skill was useless.

  • Prov 1:29-32
    4 verses
    69%

    29Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD,

    30They would have none of my counsel and despised all my correction.

    31Therefore they will eat the fruit of their own way and be filled with their own schemes.

    32For the turning away of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.

  • 5Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand all things.

  • 15If you turn away from following Him, He will abandon them again in the wilderness, and you will bring destruction on all these people."

  • 21Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

  • 28And He said to mankind, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.'

  • 5If only you would keep silent, it would be wisdom for you.

  • 6Is this how you repay the LORD, you foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father, your Creator, the One who made you and established you?

  • 8The wisdom of the prudent is to understand their path, but the folly of fools is deceit.

  • 22Consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver.

  • 16If you have understanding, listen to this; pay attention to the sound of my words.

  • 20He said: I will hide My face from them; I will see what their end will be, for they are a perverse generation, children in whom there is no faithfulness.

  • 24Wisdom is before the face of the discerning, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

  • 13Do not say, ‘We have found wisdom; let God, not a man, refute him.’

  • 29For I know that after my death you are sure to become utterly corrupt and to turn from the way I have commanded you. In days to come, disaster will fall on you because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD and arouse his anger by what your hands have made.'

  • 43Let whoever is wise heed these things and consider the lovingkindness of the LORD.

  • 21Isn't their tent cord pulled up within them? They die, and not with wisdom.

  • 6You must keep and do them, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the nations, who will hear about all these statutes and say, 'Indeed, this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'

  • 20so that people may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the Lord has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has created it.

  • 33Wisdom rests in the heart of the discerning, but it becomes known even among fools.

  • 31Let them give thanks to the LORD for His steadfast love and His wonderful deeds for mankind.

  • 12But if they do not listen, they will perish by the sword and die without knowledge.

  • 22But if they had stood in My council, they would have proclaimed My words to My people and turned them back from their evil ways and deeds.

  • 4My heart grew hot within me; as I meditated, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:

  • 10Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth.

  • 2Yet He is wise and brings disaster; He does not take back His words. He will rise against the house of evildoers and against the help of those who practice wickedness.

  • 2The LORD looks down from heaven on all humanity to see if there is anyone who understands, anyone who seeks after God.