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Deuteronomy 28:31-43 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

31. May your ox be immolated before you, though you do not eat from it. May your donkey be seized in your sight, and not restored to you. May your sheep be given to your enemies, and may there be no one who may help you.

32. May your sons and your daughters be handed over to another people, as your eyes watch and languish at the sight of them throughout the day, and may there be no strength in your hand.

33. May a people you do not know eat the fruits of your land and of all your labors. And may you continually suffer from slander and oppression every day.

34. And may you be stupefied at the terror of the things your eyes will see.

35. May the Lord strike you with a very grievous ulcer in the knees and in the legs, and may you be unable to attain health, from the sole of the foot to the top of the head.

36. May the Lord lead you and your king, whom you will have appointed over yourself, into a nation which you and your fathers have not known. And there you will serve foreign gods, of wood and of stone.

37. And you will become nothing but a proverb and a fable to all the peoples to whom the Lord will lead you.

38. You will sow much seed upon the ground, but you will harvest little. For the locusts will devour everything.

39. You will dig and plant a vineyard, but you will not drink the wine, nor gather anything at all from it. For it will be devastated by worms.

40. You will have olive trees in all your borders, but you will not be anointed with the oil. For the olives will fall off and perish.

41. You will conceive sons and daughters, and you will not enjoy them. For they will be led into captivity.

42. Rot will consume all the trees, as well as the fruits of your land.

43. The new arrival who lives with you in the land will ascend over you, and be higher. But you will descend, and be lower.

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