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.
31. Your ox will be butchered as you watch, but you won’t eat any of its meat. You will watch as your donkey is stolen from you, but you’ll never get it back. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue it.
32. You will watch with your own eyes as your sons and daughters are given to another nation. You will strain your eyes looking for them all day long, but there will be nothing you can do.
33. People you never knew will eat what your land and your hard work have produced. As long as you live, you will know nothing but oppression and abuse.
34. The things you see will drive you mad.
35. The Lord will afflict your knees and legs with severe boils that can’t be cured. The boils will cover your whole body from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.