Verse 28

Deuteronomy 32:28

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

28 They are a nation without counsel, and without wisdom.
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּי ג֛וֹי אֹבַ֥ד עֵצ֖וֹת הֵ֑מָּה וְ/אֵ֥ין בָּ/הֶ֖ם תְּבוּנָֽה
English Translation
For a nation that has perished, they have no counsel, and there is no understanding in them.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 32 Context
1 Hear, O ye heavens, the things I speak, let the earth give ear to the words of my mouth. Focus ↗
2 Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my speech distil as the dew, as a shower upon the herb, and... Focus ↗
3 Because I will invoke the name of the Lord: give ye magnificence to our God (Elohim). Focus ↗
4 The works of God (Elohim) are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God (Elohim) is faithful and... Focus ↗
5 They have sinned against him, and are nose of his children in their filth: they are a wicked and per... Focus ↗
6 Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he thy father, th... Focus ↗
7 Remember the days of old, think upon every generation: ask thy father, and he will declare to thee:... Focus ↗
8 When the Most High divided the nations: when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the bounds... Focus ↗
9 But the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his inheritance. Focus ↗
10 He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about, and t... Focus ↗
11 As the eagle enticing her young to fly, and hovering over them, he spread his wings, and hath taken... Focus ↗
12 The Lord alone was his leader: and there was no strange god with him. Focus ↗
13 He set him upon high land: that he might eat the fruits of the fields, that he might suck honey out... Focus ↗
14 Butter of the herd, and milk of the sheep with the fat of lambs, and of the rams of the breed of Bas... Focus ↗
15 The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God (Elohim) who made... Focus ↗
16 They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations. Focus ↗
17 They sacrificed to devils and not to God (Elohim): to gods whom they knew not: that were newly come... Focus ↗
18 Thou hast forsaken the God (Elohim) that beget thee, and hast forgotten the Lord that created thee. Focus ↗
19 The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and daughters provoked him. Focus ↗
20 And he said: I will hide my face from them, and will consider what their last end shall be: for it i... Focus ↗
21 They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have angered me with their vanities: and I wil... Focus ↗
22 A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest hell: and shall devour the earth wi... Focus ↗
23 I will heap evils upon them, and will spend my arrows among them. Focus ↗
24 They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite: I will send... Focus ↗
25 Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within, both the young man and the virgin, the s... Focus ↗
26 I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease from among men. Focus ↗
27 But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred it: lest perhaps their enemies might be proud, and... Focus ↗
28 They are a nation without counsel, and without wisdom.
29 O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end. Focus ↗
30 How should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase ten thousand? Was it not, because their God (E... Focus ↗
31 For our God (Elohim) is not as their gods: our enemies themselves are judges. Focus ↗
32 Their vines are of the vineyard of Sodom, and of the suburbs of Gomorrha: their grapes are grapes of... Focus ↗
33 Their wine is the gall of dragons, and the venom of asps, which is incurable. Focus ↗
34 Are not these things stored up with me, and sealed up in my treasures? Focus ↗
35 Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that their foot may slide: the day of destructio... Focus ↗
36 The Lord will judge his people, and will have mercy on his servants : he shall see that their hand i... Focus ↗
37 And he shall say: Where are their gods, in whom they trusted? Focus ↗
38 Of whose victims they ate the fat, and drank the wine of their drink offerings: let them arise and h... Focus ↗
39 See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God (Elohim) besides me: I will kill and I will make t... Focus ↗
40 I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live for ever. Focus ↗
41 If I shall whet my sword as the lightning, and my hand take hold on judgment: I will render vengeanc... Focus ↗
42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, of the blood of the slain a... Focus ↗
43 Praise his people, ye nations, for he will revenge the blood of his servants: and will render vengea... Focus ↗
44 So Moses came and spoke all the words of this canticle in the ears of the people, and Josue the son... Focus ↗
45 And he ended all these words, speaking to all Israel. Focus ↗
46 And he said to them : Set your hearts on all the words, which I testify to you this day: which you s... Focus ↗
47 For they are not commanded you in vain, but that every one should live in them, and that doing them... Focus ↗
48 And the Lord spoke to Moses the same day, saying: Focus ↗
49 Go up into this mountain Abarim, (that is to say, of passages,) unto mount Nebo, which is in the lan... Focus ↗
50 When thou art gone up into it thou shalt be gathered to thy people, as Aaron thy brother died in mou... Focus ↗
51 Because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel, at the waters of contradic... Focus ↗
52 Thou shalt see the land before thee, which I will give to the children of Israel, but thou shalt not... Focus ↗