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The sojourner that is in thy midst shall rise above thee higher and higher, and thou shalt sink down lower and lower.
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He shall lend to thee, but thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
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And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, until thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee.
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And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.
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Because thou servedst not Jehovah thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything,
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thou shalt serve thine enemies whom Jehovah will send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of everything; and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
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Jehovah will bring a nation against thee from afar, from the end of the earth, like as the eagle flieth, a nation whose tongue thou understandest not;
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a nation of fierce countenance, which regardeth not the person of the old, nor is kind to the young;
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and he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, until thou be destroyed; for he shall not leave thee corn, new wine, or oil, offspring of thy kine, or increase of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
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And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and strong walls wherein thou trustedst come down, throughout all thy land; and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates in all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.
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And in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee, thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters whom Jehovah thy God hath given thee.