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.

Psalms 81:13

81:13 If only my people would obey me! ² 

If only Israel would keep my commands! ³ 

Psalms 107:15

107:15 Let them give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love,

and for the amazing things he has done for people! ⁴ 

Psalms 107:43

107:43 Whoever is wise, let him take note of these things!

Let them consider the Lord’s acts of loyal love!

Isaiah 48:18-19

48:18 If only you had obeyed my ⁵  commandments,

prosperity would have flowed to you like a river, ⁶ 

deliverance would have come to you like the waves of the sea. ⁷ 

48:19 Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand, ⁸ 

and your children ⁹  like its granules.

Their name would not have been cut off

and eliminated from my presence. ¹⁰ 

Hosea 14:9

Concluding Exhortation

14:9 Who is wise?

Let him discern ¹¹  these things!

Who is discerning?

Let him understand them!

For the ways of the Lord are right;

the godly walk in them,

but in them the rebellious stumble.

Luke 19:41-42

Jesus Weeps for Jerusalem under Judgment

19:41 Now ¹²  when Jesus ¹³  approached ¹⁴  and saw the city, he wept over it, 19:42 saying, “If you had only known on this day, ¹⁵  even you, the things that make for peace! ¹⁶  But now they are hidden ¹⁷  from your eyes.

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

[81:13]  ² 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]  ³ tn Heb “[and if only] Israel would walk in my ways.”

[107:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “and [for] his amazing deeds for the sons of man.” See v. 8.

[48:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “paid attention to” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “had listened to.”

[48:18]  ⁶ 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]  ⁷ tn Heb “and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.” צְדָקָה (tsÿdaqah) probably refers here to divine deliverance from enemies. See v. 19.

[48:19]  ⁸ tn Heb “like sand”; NCV “as many as the grains of sand.”

[48:19]  ⁹ tn Heb “and the issue from your inner parts.”

[48:19]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and his name would not be cut off and would not be destroyed from before me.”

[14:9]  ¹¹ tn The shortened form of the prefix-conjugation verb וְיָבֵן (vÿyaven) indicates that it is a jussive rather than an imperfect. When a jussive comes from a superior to an inferior, it may connote exhortation and instruction or advice and counsel. For the functions of the jussive, see IBHS 568-70 §34.3.

[19:41]  ¹² tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic.

[19:41]  ¹³ tn Grk “he.”

[19:41]  ¹⁴ 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]  ¹⁵ sn On this day. They had missed the time of Messiah’s coming; see v. 44.

[19:42]  ¹⁶ 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]  ¹⁷ 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).