Deuteronomy 5:29

5:29 If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey ¹  all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.

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.”

Psalms 78:40

78:40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness,

and insulted him ²  in the desert!

Psalms 81:13

81:13 If only my people would obey me! ³ 

If only Israel would keep my commands! ⁴ 

Psalms 95:10

95:10 For forty years I was continually disgusted ⁵  with that generation,

and I said, ‘These people desire to go astray; ⁶ 

they do not obey my commands.’ ⁷ 

Psalms 119:158

119:158 I take note of the treacherous and despise them,

because they do not keep your instructions. ⁸ 

Isaiah 48:18

48:18 If only you had obeyed my ⁹  commandments,

prosperity would have flowed to you like a river, ¹⁰ 

deliverance would have come to you like the waves of the sea. ¹¹ 

Isaiah 63:10

63:10 But they rebelled and offended ¹²  his holy Spirit, ¹³ 

so he turned into an enemy

and fought against them.

Ezekiel 33:11

33:11 Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but prefer that the wicked change his behavior ¹⁴  and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil deeds! ¹⁵  Why should you die, O house of Israel?’

Luke 19:41-42

Jesus Weeps for Jerusalem under Judgment

19:41 Now ¹⁶  when Jesus ¹⁷  approached ¹⁸  and saw the city, he wept over it, 19:42 saying, “If you had only known on this day, ¹⁹  even you, the things that make for peace! ²⁰  But now they are hidden ²¹  from your eyes.

Ephesians 4:30

4:30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Hebrews 3:10

3:10 “Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, ‘Their hearts are always wandering ²²  and they have not known my ways.’

Hebrews 3:17

3:17 And against whom was God ²³  provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness? ²⁴ 

[5:29]  ¹ tn Heb “keep” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[78:40]  ² tn Or “caused him pain.”

[81:13]  ³ tn Heb “if only my people were listening to me.” The Hebrew particle לוּ (lu, “if not”) introduces a purely hypothetical or contrary to fact condition (see 2 Sam 18:12).

[81:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “[and if only] Israel would walk in my ways.”

[95:10]  ⁵ tn The prefixed verbal form is either a preterite or an imperfect. If the latter, it emphasizes the ongoing nature of the condition in the past. The translation reflects this interpretation of the verbal form.

[95:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “a people, wanderers of heart [are] they.”

[95:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “and they do not know my ways.” In this context the Lord’s “ways” are his commands, viewed as a pathway from which his people, likened to wayward sheep (see v. 7), wander.

[119:158]  ⁸ tn Heb “your word.”

[48:18]  ⁹ tn Heb “paid attention to” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “had listened to.”

[48:18]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “like a river your peace would have been.” שָׁלוֹם (shalom) probably refers here to the peace and prosperity which God promised in return for obedience to the covenant.

[48:18]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.” צְדָקָה (tsÿdaqah) probably refers here to divine deliverance from enemies. See v. 19.

[63:10]  ¹² tn Or “grieved, hurt the feelings of.”

[63:10]  ¹³ sn The phrase “holy Spirit” occurs in the OT only here (in v. 11 as well) and in Ps 51:11 (51:13 HT), where it is associated with the divine presence.

[33:11]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “turn from his way.”

[33:11]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “ways.” This same word is translated “behavior” earlier in the verse.

[19:41]  ¹⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic.

[19:41]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “he.”

[19:41]  ¹⁸ sn When Jesus approached and saw the city. This is the last travel note in Luke’s account (the so-called Jerusalem journey), as Jesus approached and saw the city before entering it.

[19:42]  ¹⁹ sn On this day. They had missed the time of Messiah’s coming; see v. 44.

[19:42]  ²⁰ tn Grk “the things toward peace.” This expression seems to mean “the things that would ‘lead to,’ ‘bring about,’ or ‘make for’ peace.”

[19:42]  ²¹ sn But now they are hidden from your eyes. This becomes an oracle of doom in the classic OT sense; see Luke 13:31-35; 11:49-51; Jer 9:2; 13:7; 14:7. They are now blind and under judgment (Jer 15:5; Ps 122:6).

[3:10]  ²² tn Grk “they are wandering in the heart.”

[3:17]  ²³ tn Grk “he”; in the translation the referent (God) has been specified for clarity.

[3:17]  ²⁴ sn An allusion to God’s judgment pronounced in Num 14:29, 32.