Deuteronomy 28:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² The Lord will open for you his rich storehouse, the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all your undertakings. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² The Lord shall open to you His good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Jehovah will open unto thee his good treasure the heavens, to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.

Common English Bible

¹² The LORD will open up for you his own well-stocked storehouse, the heavens, providing your land with rain at just the right time and blessing all your work. You will lend to many nations, but you won’t have any need to borrow.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² The Lord will open his excellent treasury, the heavens, so that it may distribute rain in due time. And he will bless all the works of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you yourself will borrow nothing from anyone.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² The Lord will open his excellent treasure, the heaven, that it may give rain in due season: and he will bless all the works of thy hands. And thou shalt lend to many nations, and shalt not borrow of any one.

Deuteronomy 28:12 Cross References

1 Kings 18:1

After many days the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year of the drought, saying, “Go, present yourself to Ahab; I will send rain on the earth.”

Job 38:22

“Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,

Psalm 135:7

He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.

Proverbs 22:7

The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

Ezekiel 34:26

I will make them and the region around my hill a blessing, and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing.

Leviticus 26:4

I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

Deuteronomy 11:14

then he will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, and you will gather in your grain, your wine, and your oil,

Deuteronomy 14:29

the Levites, because they have no allotment or inheritance with you, as well as the resident aliens, the orphans, and the widows in your towns, may come and eat their fill so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work that you undertake.

Deuteronomy 15:10

Give liberally and be ungrudging when you do so, for on this account the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.

Deuteronomy 15:6

When the Lord your God has blessed you, as he promised you, you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow; you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.

Deuteronomy 23:20

On loans to a foreigner you may charge interest, but on loans to another Israelite you may not charge interest, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all your undertakings in the land that you are about to enter and possess.

Deuteronomy 28:24

The Lord will change the rain of your land into powder, and only dust shall come down upon you from the sky until you are destroyed.

Deuteronomy 28:44

They shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to them; they shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.