Deuteronomy 32:29

World English Bible (2000)

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

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  • Deut 5:29 : 29 Oh that there were such a 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 forever!
  • Ps 81:13 : 13 Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
  • Isa 47:7 : 7 You said, I shall be mistress forever; so that you did not lay these things to your heart, neither did remember the latter end of it.
  • Lam 1:9 : 9 Her filthiness was in her skirts; she didn't remember her latter end; therefore is she come down wonderfully; she has no comforter: see, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.
  • Hos 14:9 : 9 Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'
  • Luke 16:19-25 : 19 "Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. 20 A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was laid at his gate, full of sores, 21 and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried. 23 In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom. 24 He cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.' 25 "But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.
  • Luke 19:41-42 : 41 When he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it, 42 saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.
  • Isa 48:18-19 : 18 Oh that you had listened to my commandments! then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea: 19 your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your body like its grains: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.
  • Jer 5:31 : 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?
  • Jer 17:11 : 11 As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
  • Ps 107:15 : 15 Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful works to the children of men!
  • Ps 107:43 : 43 Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh. A Song. A Psalm by David.
  • Isa 10:3 : 3 What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 83%

    26 I said, I would scatter them afar. I would make the memory of them to cease from among men;

    27 were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, 'Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.'"

    28 For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.

  • 77%

    30 How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up?

    31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

  • 29 Oh that there were such a 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 forever!

  • 22 "For my people are foolish, they don't know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."

  • 8 Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

  • 20 Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

  • 4 Then I said, "Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God.

  • 9 The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of Yahweh; and what kind of wisdom is in them?

  • 9 It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.

  • Isa 29:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14 therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden."

    15 Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us?" and "Who knows us?"

  • 17 Until I entered God's sanctuary, and considered their latter end.

  • 13 Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

  • 37 He will say, "Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge;

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

  • 27 because they turned aside from following him, and wouldn't pay attention to any of his ways,

  • 18 They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand.

  • 27 They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

  • Prov 1:29-32
    4 verses
    69%

    29 because they hated knowledge, and didn't choose the fear of Yahweh.

    30 They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

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

    32 For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

  • 5 Evil men don't understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.

  • 15 For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all this people."

  • 21 'Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear:

  • 28 To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.'"

  • 5 Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

  • 6 Do you thus requite Yahweh, foolish people and unwise? Isn't he your father who has bought you? He has made you, and established you.

  • 8 The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

  • 22 "Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be none to deliver.

  • 16 "If now you have understanding, hear this. Listen to the voice of my words.

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

  • 24 Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.

  • 13 Beware lest you say, 'We have found wisdom, God may refute him, not man;'

  • 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 happen to you in the latter days; because you will do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands."

  • 43 Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh. A Song. A Psalm by David.

  • 21 Isn't their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'

  • 6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, "Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people."

  • 20 that they may see, know, consider, and understand together, that the hand of Yahweh has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.

  • 33 Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, and is even made known in the inward part of fools.

  • 31 Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful works for the children of men!

  • 12 But if they don't listen, they shall perish by the sword; they shall die without knowledge.

  • 22 But if they had stood in my council, then had they caused my people to hear my words, and had turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

  • 4 "Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

  • 10 Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth.

  • 2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.

  • 2 Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who did understand, who did seek after God.