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.
44. He will lend to you, and you will not lend to him. He will be as the head, and you will be as the tail.
45. And all these curses shall come to you, and shall pursue you, and shall take hold of you, until you pass away, because you would not listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and you would not serve his commandments and ceremonies, which he has instructed to you.
46. And there will be the signs and portents with you, and with your offspring, forever.
47. Because you did not serve the Lord your God, with gladness and a joyful heart, over the abundance of all things.
48. You will serve your enemy, whom the Lord will send to you, in hunger and thirst and nakedness, and in destitution of all things. And he will place an iron yoke upon your neck, until he has crushed you.
49. The Lord will lead over you a nation from far away, even from the furthest parts of the earth, like an eagle flying with great force, whose language you are not able to understand:
50. a very insolent nation, which will show no deference to elders, nor take pity on little ones.
51. And he will devour the fruit of your cattle, and the fruits of your land, until you have passed away, without leaving behind you wheat, or wine, or oil, or herds of oxen, or flocks of sheep: until he utterly destroys you.
52. And he will crush you in all your cities. And your strong and lofty walls, in which you trusted, will be destroyed throughout all your land. You will be besieged within your gates throughout all your land, which the Lord your God will give to you.