Deuteronomy 28:43-45

New Century Version

⁴³ The foreigners who live among you will get stronger and stronger, and you will get weaker and weaker. ⁴⁴ Foreigners will lend money to you, but you will not be able to lend to them. They will be like the head, and you will be like the tail.

⁴⁵ All these curses will come upon you. They will chase you and catch you and destroy you, because you did not obey the Lord your God and keep the commands and laws he gave you.