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.
36. The Lord will lead you and the king you choose to a nation that you and your ancestors never knew. There you will worship gods made of wood and stone.
37. You will become a thing of horror. All the nations where the Lord will send you will make an example of you and ridicule you.
38. You will plant many crops in your fields, but harvest little because locusts will destroy your crops.
39. You will plant vineyards and take care of them, but you won’t drink any wine or gather any grapes, because worms will eat them.
40. You will have olive trees everywhere in your country but no olive oil to rub on your skin, because the olives will fall off the trees.
41. You will have sons and daughters, but you won’t be able to keep them because they will be taken as prisoners of war.
42. Crickets will swarm all over your trees and the crops in your fields.
43. The ⌊standard of living for the⌋ foreigners who live among you will rise higher and higher, while your ⌊standard of living⌋ will sink lower and lower.
44. They will be able to make loans to you, but you won’t be able to make loans to them. They will be the head, and you will be the tail.