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Deuteronomy 28:38-49 Common English Bible (CEB)

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.

42. Crickets will take over all your trees and your soil’s produce.

43. The immigrants who live among you will be promoted over you, higher and higher! But you will be demoted, lower and lower!

44. They will lend to you, but you will have nothing to lend to them. They will be the head of things; you will be the tail.

45. That’s how all these curses will come over you, pursuing you, reaching you until you are completely wiped out, because you didn’t obey the Lord your God’s voice by keeping his commandments and his regulations that he gave you.

46. These things will be a sign and a wonder on you and your descendants forever.

47. Because you didn’t serve the Lord your God joyfully and gladly above all else,

48. you will serve your enemies—the ones the Lord will send against you—during famine, drought, nakedness, and total depravation. God will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has wiped you out.

49. The Lord will bring a distant nation—one from the far ends of the earth—against you as fast as the eagle flies: a nation that speaks a language you can’t understand,

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