5 Bible Verses about Foreigners Will Rule Over You

Lamentations 5:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.

Deuteronomy 28:43-44 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

Isaiah 1:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Your country lies desolate; your cities are burned with fire; in your very presence foreigners devour your land; it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.

Nehemiah 9:36-37 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Behold, we are slaves this day; in the land that you gave to our fathers to enjoy its fruit and its good gifts, behold, we are slaves. And its rich yield goes to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. They rule over our bodies and over our livestock as they please, and we are in great distress.

Nehemiah 5:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Moreover, there were at my table 150 men, Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations that were around us.

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