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He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him; he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
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Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee and shall pursue thee and overtake thee until thou art destroyed because thou shalt not have attended unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee;
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and they shall be in thee for a sign and for a wonder, and in thy seed for ever.
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Because thou didst not serve the LORD thy God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all
things;
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therefore, thou shalt serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in lack of all
things; and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck until he has destroyed thee.
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The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from afar, from the end of the earth,
as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand,
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a nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old nor show favour to the young;
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and he shall eat the fruit of thy beast and the fruit of thy land until thou art destroyed, which
also shall not leave thee
either grain, wine, or oil,
or the increase of thy cows or flocks of thy sheep until he has destroyed thee.
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And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates until thy high and fenced walls come down, in which thou dost trust, throughout all thy land; and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God has given thee.
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And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God has given thee, in the siege and in the straitness with which thine enemies shall distress thee.
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The man
that is tender among you and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother and toward the wife of his bosom and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave,