Deuteronomy 5:29

Oh that there were such an heart in them, etc.] heartis in antithesis to the saidand spokenof the previous verse. Approving their present mood as evinced in their words, God doubts its constancy.

all my commandments Sam. and LXX omit all.

always Heb. all the days. One of the many points of similarity between Hosea and Deut. is doubt, if not of the sincerity, yet of the constancy, of the nation's feeling of repentance or obedience; cp. Hosea 5:15 to Hosea 6:3, Israel's repentant prayer, with Deuteronomy 6:4-6, God's rejection of it: your goodness is as a morning cloud and as the dew that goeth early. See on Deuteronomy 1:41. Both the prophet and D insist upon heartin religion.

that it might be well with them Deuteronomy 5:16; Deuteronomy 5:33, Deuteronomy 4:40.