Deuteronomy 5:29
5:29 If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey
all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.
Deuteronomy 10:12-13
An Exhortation to Love Both God and People
10:12 Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you except to revere him, to obey all his commandments, to love him, to serve him with all your mind and being,
10:13 and to keep the Lord’s commandments and statutes that I am giving you today for your own good?
Deuteronomy 32:29
32:29 I wish that they were wise and could understand this,
and that they could comprehend what will happen to them.”
Isaiah 48:18
48:18 If only you had obeyed my commandments,
prosperity would have flowed to you like a river,
deliverance would have come to you like the waves of the sea.
Matthew 23:37
Judgment on Israel
23:37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!
Luke 19:41-42
Jesus Weeps for Jerusalem under Judgment
19:41 Now when Jesus approached and saw the city, he wept over it,
19:42 saying, “If you had only known on this day, even you, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.