14. Do everything I’m commanding you today. Never worship other gods or serve them.
15. Obey the Lord your God, and faithfully follow all his commands and laws that I am giving you today. If you don’t, all these curses will come to you and stay close to you:
16. You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.
17. The grain you harvest and the bread you bake will be cursed.
18. You will be cursed. You will have few children. Your land will have few crops. Your cattle will be cursed with few calves, and your flocks will have few lambs and kids.
19. You will be cursed when you come and cursed when you go.
20. The Lord will send you curses, panic, and frustration in everything you do until you’re destroyed and quickly disappear for the evil you will do by abandoning the Lord.
21. The Lord will send one plague after another on you until he wipes you out of the land you’re about to enter and take possession of.
22. The Lord will strike you with disease, fever, and inflammation; heat waves, drought, scorching winds, and ruined crops. They will pursue you until you die.
23. The sky above will look like bronze, and the ground below will be as hard as iron.
24. The Lord will send dust storms and sandstorms on you from the sky until you’re destroyed.
25. The Lord will let your enemies defeat you. You will attack them from one direction but run away from them in seven directions. You will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms in the world.
26. Your dead bodies will be food for all the birds and wild animals. There will be no one to scare them away.
27. The Lord will strike you with the same boils that plagued the Egyptians. He will strike you with hemorrhoids, sores, and itching that won’t go away.
28. The Lord will strike you with madness, blindness, and panic.
29. You will grope in broad daylight as blind people grope in their blindness. You won’t be successful in anything you do. As long as you live, you will be oppressed and robbed with no one to rescue you.
30. You will be engaged to a woman, but another man will have sex with her. You will build a house, but you won’t live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you won’t enjoy the grapes.