20. The Lord will send calamity, confusion, and frustration on you no matter what work you are doing until you are wiped out and until you disappear—it’ll be quick!—because of the evil acts by which you have abandoned him.
21. The Lord will make a plague stick to you until he has totally wiped you off the fertile land you are entering to possess.
22. The Lord will strike you with consumption, fever, and inflammation; with scorching heat and drought; with destruction and disease for your crops. These things will chase you until you are dead and gone.
23. The sky over your head will be as hard as bronze; the earth under your feet will be like iron.
24. The Lord will turn the rain on your land into dust. Only dirt will fall down on you from the sky until you are completely wiped out.
25. The Lord will hand you over defeated to your enemies. You will go out against them by one direction, but you will run for your life away from them in seven different directions. All the earth’s kingdoms will be horrified by you.
26. Your corpses will be food for every bird in the sky and animal on earth; no one will frighten them off.
27. The Lord will afflict you with Egyptian inflammation, hemorrhoids, rash, and itch. You will be untreatable.
28. The Lord will make you go crazy, make you blind, make your mind confused.
29. You will fumble around at high noon as blind people fumble around in darkness. Your plans won’t prosper. Instead, you will be constantly oppressed and taken advantage of without any savior.
30. You might get engaged to a woman, but another man will have sex with her. You might build a house, but you won’t get to live in it. You might plant a vineyard, but you won’t enjoy it.
31. Your ox will be slaughtered while you watch, but you won’t get to eat any of it. Your donkey will be stolen right out from under you, and it won’t come back. Your flocks will be given to your enemies. No one will save you.
32. Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation while you watch; you will long for them constantly, but you won’t have the power to do anything about it.
33. The produce of your land and all your hard work will be consumed by people you don’t know. You will be nothing but oppressed and mistreated constantly.
34. The sights your eyes see will drive you insane.