28:13 The Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always end up at the top and not at the bottom, if you obey his 1 commandments which I am urging 2 you today to be careful to do.
Deuteronomy 28:37
28:37 You will become an occasion of horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule to all the peoples to whom the Lord will drive you.
Deuteronomy 28:44
28:44 They will lend to you but you will not lend to them; they will become the head and you will become the tail!
1 tnHeb “the Lord your God’s.” See note on “he” in 28:8.
2 tnHeb “commanding” (so NRSV); NASB “which I charge you today.”