Bible verse
If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
Deuteronomy 32:29 · BSB
The verses around it, from Deuteronomy 32.
25 Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man.
26 I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,
27 if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did all this.’”
28 Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them.
29 If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
30 How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?
31 For their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies concede.
32 But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter.
33 Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
KJV
O that they were wise, [that] they understood this, [that] they would consider their latter end!
ASV
Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!
ERV
Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!
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