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all thy trees and the fruit of thy ground doth the locust possess;
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the sojourner who [is] in thy midst goeth up above thee very high, and thou goest down very low;
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he doth lend [to] thee, and thou dost not lend [to] him; he is for head, and thou art for tail.
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`And come upon thee have all these curses, and they have pursued thee, and overtaken thee, till thou art destroyed, because thou hast not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep His commands, and His statutes, which he hath commanded thee;
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and they have been on thee for a sign and for a wonder, also on thy seed -- to the age.
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`Because that thou hast not served Jehovah thy God with joy, and with gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things --
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thou hast served thine enemies, whom Jehovah sendeth against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in lack of all things; and he hath put a yoke of iron on thy neck, till He hath destroyed thee.
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`Jehovah doth lift up against thee a nation, from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle it flieth; a nation whose tongue thou hast not heard,
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a nation -- fierce of countenance -- which accepteth not the face of the aged, and the young doth not favour;
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and it hath eaten the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, till thou art destroyed; which leaveth not to thee corn, new wine, and oil, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock, till it hath destroyed thee.
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`And it hath laid siege to thee in all thy gates, till thy walls come down, the high and the fenced ones in which thou art trusting, in all thy land; yea, it hath laid siege to thee in all thy gates, in all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given to thee;