38. You will plant a lot of seed, but gather a small harvest, because locusts will eat your crops.
39. You will plant vineyards and work hard at taking care of them, but you won't gather any grapes, much less get any wine, and the vines themselves will be eaten by worms.
40. Even if your olive trees grow everywhere in your country, the olives will fall off before they are ready, and there won't be enough olive oil for combing your hair.
41. Even your infant sons and daughters will be taken as prisoners of war.
42. Locusts will eat your crops and strip your trees of leaves and fruit.
43. Foreigners in your towns will become wealthy and powerful, while you become poor and powerless.
44. You will be so short of money that you will have to borrow from those foreigners. They will be the leaders in the community, and you will be the followers.