29 Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!
Oh that you had listened to my commandments! then had your peace been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:
They come to you as the people comes, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don't do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain. Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don't do them.
You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh your God gives you, forever.
saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.
"Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
But he said, "On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it."
But he who looks into the perfect law, the law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
See that you don't refuse him who speaks. For if they didn't escape when they refused him who warned on the Earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,
We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us. We beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Oh, don't do this abominable thing that I hate.
who says, I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers, and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted with vermilion. Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn't your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? then it was well with him.
Tell the righteous "Good!" For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
> Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, Who walk according to Yahweh's law. Blessed are those who keep his statutes, Who seek him with their whole heart. Yes, they do nothing wrong. They walk in his ways. You have commanded your precepts, That we should fully obey them. Oh that my ways were steadfast To obey your statutes!
Oh that my people would listen to me, That Israel would walk in my ways! I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn my hand against their adversaries. The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, And their punishment would last forever.
Moreover by them is your servant warned. In keeping them there is great reward.
Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end! How should one chase a thousand, Two put ten thousand to flight, Except their Rock had sold them, Yahweh had delivered them up?
you shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take to yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.
Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.
You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.
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Commentary on Deuteronomy 5 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 5
In this chapter we have the second edition of the ten commandments.
Deu 5:1-5
Here,
Deu 5:6-22
Here is the repetition of the ten commandments, in which observe,
Deu 5:23-33
Here,