Catholic Public Domain Version
"I wish that they would be wise and understanding, and would provide for the very end.’ "
— Deuteronomy 32:29, Catholic Public Domain Version
“O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!”
“Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end! ”
“Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!”
“I wish that they were wise and could understand this, and that they could comprehend what will happen to them.””
“O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end.”
“If only they were wise, if only this was clear to them, and they would give thought to their future!”
“O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!”
I said: Where are they? I will cause their memory to cease from among men.
But because of the wrath of the enemies, I have delayed it. Otherwise, perhaps their enemies would be arrogant and would say: “Our exalted hand, and not the Lord, has done all these things.”
They are a nation without counsel and without prudence.
I wish that they would be wise and understanding, and would provide for the very end.’
How is it that one pursues a thousand, and two chases ten thousand? Is it not because their God has sold them, and because the Lord has enclosed them?
For our God is not like their gods. And our enemies are judges.
Their vines are of the vines of Sodom, but from the suburbs of Gomorrah. Their grapes are the grapes of gall, and their grape clusters are most bitter.