📜WEB · Deuteronomy 32:29
What does Deuteronomy 32:29 mean?
"Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!"
— Deuteronomy 32:29 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
I said that I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from among men;
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.’”
For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.
Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
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?
For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves concede.
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poison grapes. Their clusters are bitter.
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