Deuteronomy 28:44

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They will lend to you but you will not lend to them; they will become the head and you will become the tail!

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  • Deut 28:12-13 : 12 The LORD will open for you his good treasure house, the heavens, to give you rain for the land in its season and to bless all you do; you will lend to many nations but you will not borrow from any. 13 The LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always end up at the top and not at the bottom, if you obey his commandments which I am urging you today to be careful to do.
  • Lam 1:5 : 5 ה(He) Her foes subjugated her; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD afflicted her because of her many acts of rebellion. Her children went away captive before the enemy.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 28:11-20
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    84%

    11The LORD will greatly multiply your children, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil in the land which he promised your ancestors he would give you.

    12The LORD will open for you his good treasure house, the heavens, to give you rain for the land in its season and to bless all you do; you will lend to many nations but you will not borrow from any.

    13The LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always end up at the top and not at the bottom, if you obey his commandments which I am urging you today to be careful to do.

    14But you must not turn away from all the commandments I am giving you today, to either the right or left, nor pursue other gods and worship them.

    15Curses as Reversal of Blessings“But if you ignore the LORD your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force:

    16You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field.

    17Your basket and your mixing bowl will be cursed.

    18Your children will be cursed, as well as the produce of your soil, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.

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

    20Curses by Disease and Drought“The LORD will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me.

  • Deut 15:6
    80%

    6For the LORD your God will bless you just as he has promised; you will lend to many nations but will not borrow from any, and you will rule over many nations but they will not rule over you.

  • Deut 28:43
    79%

    43The resident foreigners who reside among you will become higher and higher over you and you will become lower and lower.

  • Deut 28:45-46
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    45All these curses will fall on you, pursuing and overtaking you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the LORD your God by keeping his commandments and statutes that he has given you.

    46These curses will be a perpetual sign and wonder with reference to you and your descendants.

  • Prov 22:7
    73%

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

  • Lev 25:37
    73%

    37You must not lend him your money at interest and you must not sell him food for profit.

  • Deut 28:33-37
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    72%

    33As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.

    34You will go insane from seeing all this.

    35The LORD will afflict you in your knees and on your legs with painful, incurable boils– from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

    36The LORD will force you and your king whom you will appoint over you to go away to a people whom you and your ancestors have not known, and you will serve other gods of wood and stone there.

    37You will become an occasion of horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule to all the peoples to whom the LORD will drive you.

  • Exod 22:25
    71%

    25“If you lend money to any of my people who are needy among you, do not be like a moneylender to him; do not charge him interest.

  • Isa 9:14-15
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    14So the LORD cut off Israel’s head and tail, both the shoots and stalk in one day.

    15The leaders and the highly respected people are the head, the prophets who teach lies are the tail.

  • Deut 23:19-20
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    70%

    19Respect for Others’ Property You must not charge interest on a loan to your fellow Israelite, whether on money, food, or anything else that has been loaned with interest.

    20You may lend with interest to a foreigner, but not to your fellow Israelite; if you keep this command the LORD your God will bless you in all you undertake in the land you are about to enter to possess.

  • Deut 28:25
    70%

    25Curses by Defeat and Deportation“The LORD will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Deut 28:1-2
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    1The Covenant Blessings“If you indeed obey the LORD your God and are careful to observe all his commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will elevate you above all the nations of the earth.

    2All these blessings will come to you in abundance if you obey the LORD your God:

  • Deut 28:8
    70%

    8The LORD will decree blessing for you with respect to your barns and in everything you do– yes, he will bless you in the land he is giving you.

  • Deut 28:51-52
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    51They will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, or lambs of your flocks until they have destroyed you.

    52They will besiege all of your villages until all of your high and fortified walls collapse– those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the LORD your God has given you.

  • Isa 24:2
    69%

    2Everyone will suffer– the priest as well as the people, the master as well as the servant, the elegant lady as well as the female attendant, the seller as well as the buyer, the borrower as well as the lender, the creditor as well as the debtor.

  • Deut 28:29-31
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    29You will feel your way along at noon like the blind person does in darkness and you will not succeed in anything you do; you will be constantly oppressed and continually robbed, with no one to save you.

    30You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.

    31Your ox will be slaughtered before your very eyes but you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be stolen from you as you watch and will not be returned to you. Your flock of sheep will be given to your enemies and there will be no one to save you.

  • Deut 24:10-12
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    69%

    10When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor, you may not go into his house to claim what he is offering as security.

    11You must stand outside and the person to whom you are making the loan will bring out to you what he is offering as security.

    12If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering.

  • Deut 28:48-49
    2 verses
    69%

    48instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty you will serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you. They will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.

    49The LORD will raise up a distant nation against you, one from the other side of the earth as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand,

  • Deut 15:4
    68%

    4However, there should not be any poor among you, for the LORD will surely bless you in the land that he is giving you as an inheritance,

  • Lev 26:17
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    17I will set my face against you. You will be struck down before your enemies, those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when there is no one pursuing you.

  • Ps 37:22
    68%

    22Surely those favored by the LORD will possess the land, but those rejected by him will be wiped out.

  • Deut 30:1
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    1The Results of Covenant Reaffirmation“When you have experienced all these things, both the blessings and the curses I have set before you, you will reflect upon them in all the nations where the LORD your God has banished you.

  • Jer 2:37
    68%

    37Moreover, you will come away from Egypt with your hands covering your faces in sorrow and shame because the LORD will not allow your reliance on them to be successful and you will not gain any help from them.

  • Deut 30:7
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    7Then the LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies, on those who hate you and persecute you.

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

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    40You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with olive oil, because the olives will drop off the trees while still unripe.

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