42. All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust possess. [Fulfilled in Joel 1:4.]
43. The transient (stranger) among you shall mount up higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.
44. He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
45. All these curses shall come upon you and shall pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.
46. They shall be upon you for a sign [of warning to other nations] and for a wonder, and upon your descendants forever.
47. Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness of [mind and] heart [in gratitude] for the abundance of all [with which He had blessed you],
48. Therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord shall send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and in want of all things; and He will put a yoke of iron upon your neck until He has destroyed you.
49. The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you shall not understand,
50. A nation of unyielding countenance who will not regard the person of the old or show favor to the young,
51. And shall eat the fruit of your cattle and the fruit of your ground until you are destroyed, who also shall not leave you grain, new wine, oil, the increase of your cattle or the young of your sheep until they have caused you to perish.