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.
35. The Lord will strike you with horrible inflammation in your knees and legs, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head. You will be untreatable.
36. The Lord will send you and the king that you appoint over you far away to a nation that neither you nor your ancestors have known. There you will worship other gods made of wood and stone.
37. You will become a horror, fit only for use in proverbs and in insults by all the nations where the Lord drives you.
38. You might scatter a lot of seed on the field, but you will gather almost nothing because the locusts will eat it all.
39. You might plant lots of vineyards and work hard in them, but you won’t drink any wine or harvest the grapes because worms will devour them.
40. You might have many olive trees throughout your territories, but you won’t cover yourself with their oil because your olive trees will fail.
41. You might have sons and daughters, but they won’t be yours for long because they will be taken away as prisoners.