King James Version
Deuteronomy 32:28 in the King James Version says “For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.” — study this verse from Deuteronomy chapter 32 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.”
Deuteronomy 32:28 · KJV
I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this. Our: or, Our high hand, and not the LORD hath done
For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
KJV Study — Public Domain
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“For they are a nation”
H1471a foreign nation; hence, a gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
“void”
H6properly, to wander away, i.e., lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
“neither is there any understanding”
H8394intelligence; by implication, an argument; by extension, caprice
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