37. And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away.
38. You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for the locust shall consume it.
39. You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them.
40. You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off.
41. You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for they shall go into captivity.
42. The cricket shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground.
43. The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.
44. He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
45. “All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you.
46. They shall be a sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever.
47. Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things,
48. therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.
49. The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand,
50. a hard-faced nation who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young.
51. It shall eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
52. “They shall besiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the Lord your God has given you.
53. And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.