Deuteronomy 28:44

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He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.

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  • Deut 28:12-13 : 12 The LORD will open the heavens, His rich treasury, to give rain to your land in its season and bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. 13 The LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you will only go upwards and not downwards, if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God that I am commanding you today, to observe and to do them.
  • Lam 1:5 : 5 Her adversaries have become her masters; her enemies prosper because the LORD has afflicted her for her many sins. Her children have gone into captivity before the enemy.

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  • Deut 28:11-20
    10 verses
    84%

    11 The LORD will make you prosper abundantly in the fruit of your womb, in the offspring of your livestock, and in the produce of your land on the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.

    12 The LORD will open the heavens, His rich treasury, to give rain to your land in its season and bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.

    13 The LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you will only go upwards and not downwards, if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God that I am commanding you today, to observe and to do them.

    14 You must not turn aside from any of the words I am commanding you today, neither to the right nor to the left, to follow other gods and serve them.

    15 But if you will not listen to the voice of the LORD your God and carefully follow all His commandments and statutes I am commanding you today, then all these curses will come upon you and overtake you.

    16 Cursed will you be in the city, and cursed will you be in the field.

    17 Cursed will be your basket and your kneading bowl.

    18 Cursed will be the fruit of your womb, the produce of your land, the offspring of your cattle, and the increase of your flocks.

    19 Cursed will you be when you come in, and cursed will you be when you go out.

    20 The LORD will send curses, confusion, and rebuke in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil of your deeds, by which you have forsaken Me.

  • Deut 15:6
    80%

    6 For the Lord your God will bless you as He promised you, and you will lend to many nations but will not borrow. You will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.

  • Deut 28:43
    79%

    43 The foreigner who resides among you will rise higher and higher above you, but you will sink lower and lower.

  • Deut 28:45-46
    2 verses
    79%

    45 All these curses will come upon you, pursue you, and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and statutes that He commanded you.

    46 These curses will become a sign and a wonder against you and your descendants forever.

  • Prov 22:7
    73%

    7 The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

  • Lev 25:37
    73%

    37 You must not lend them money at interest or sell them food for profit.

  • Deut 28:33-37
    5 verses
    72%

    33 A people you don’t know will eat the fruit of your land and the result of your labor. You will be oppressed and crushed continually.

    34 You will go mad because of the things you see with your own eyes.

    35 The LORD will strike you with painful and incurable boils on your knees and legs, and from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.

    36 The LORD will drive you and the king you set over yourself to a nation that neither you nor your ancestors have known, and there you will serve other gods made of wood and stone.

    37 You will become an object of horror, a byword, and a taunt among all the peoples to which the LORD will drive you.

  • Exod 22:25
    71%

    25 If you take your neighbor's cloak as a pledge, return it to him before the sun sets.

  • Isa 9:14-15
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    14 The elders and dignitaries are the head; the prophets who teach lies are the tail.

    15 Those who guide this people mislead them, and those who are guided by them are swallowed up.

  • Deut 23:19-20
    2 verses
    70%

    19 Do not bring the wages of a prostitute or the price of a dog into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, for both are detestable to the LORD your God.

    20 Do not charge interest to your fellow Israelite—whether on money, food, or anything that may earn interest.

  • Deut 28:25
    70%

    25 The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven directions. You will become a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Deut 28:1-2
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    70%

    1 If you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God by carefully keeping all His commandments that I am commanding you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

    2 All these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you listen to the voice of the LORD your God.

  • Deut 28:8
    70%

    8 The LORD will command the blessing on your storehouses and on all you set your hand to do. He will bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

  • Deut 28:51-52
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    51 They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, or fresh oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have wiped you out.

    52 They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until your high fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down. They will besiege all the cities in the land the LORD your God has given you.

  • Isa 24:2
    69%

    2 It will be the same for the people as for the priest, the servant as for his master, the maid as for her mistress, the buyer as for the seller, the lender as for the borrower, the creditor as for the debtor.

  • Deut 28:29-31
    3 verses
    69%

    29 At midday, you will grope around like a blind person in the dark. You will not prosper in your ways; you will be continually oppressed and robbed, with no one to save you.

    30 You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not enjoy its fruit.

    31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken forcibly from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them.

  • Deut 24:10-12
    3 verses
    69%

    10 When you lend your neighbor anything, do not enter their house to take what is offered as a pledge.

    11 You must wait outside while the person to whom you are lending brings the pledge out to you.

    12 If the person is poor, do not keep their pledge overnight.

  • Deut 28:48-49
    2 verses
    69%

    48 You will serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and total destitution. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

    49 The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand.

  • Deut 15:4
    68%

    4 However, there should be no poor among you, for the Lord will certainly bless you in the land He is giving you as an inheritance to possess.

  • Lev 26:17
    68%

    17 I will set my face against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even when no one is chasing you.

  • Ps 37:22
    68%

    22 For those blessed by the LORD will inherit the land, but those cursed by Him will be cut off.

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    1 When all these things come upon you—the blessing and the curse that I have set before you—and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you,

  • Jer 2:37
    68%

    37 You will also leave that place with your hands on your head, for the LORD has rejected those you trust; you will not prosper through them.

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    7 The LORD your God will place all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you and persecuted you.

  • Deut 11:29
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    29 When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

  • Deut 28:40
    67%

    40 You will have olive trees throughout your territory, but you will not anoint yourself with oil, for your olives will drop off prematurely.

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    26 See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse—