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Deuteronomy 28:42-44
Contemporary English Version
Deuteronomy 28:42-44
Contemporary English Version
42 Locusts[a] will eat your crops and strip your trees of leaves and fruit.
43 Foreigners in your towns will become wealthy and powerful, while you become poor and powerless. 44 You will be so short of money that you will have to borrow from those foreigners. They will be the leaders in the community, and you will be the followers.
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- 28.42 Locusts: See the note at 28.38.
Deuteronomy 28:42-44
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Deuteronomy 28:42-44
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42 Swarms of locusts(A) will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.
43 The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.(B) 44 They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them.(C) They will be the head, but you will be the tail.(D)
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