Deuteronomy 28:44

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⁴⁴^(A)He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. ^(B)He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

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Deuteronomy 28:12-13

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¹²The Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, ^(A)to give the rain to your land in its season and ^(B)to bless all the work of your hands. And ^(C)you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. ¹³And the Lord will make you ^(D)the head and not the tail, and you shall only go up and not down, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, being careful to do them,

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Lamentations 1:5

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⁵^(A)Her foes have become the head;
    her ^(B)enemies prosper,
because ^(C)the Lord has afflicted her
    ^(D)for the multitude of her transgressions;
^(E)her children have gone away,
    captives before the foe.