29. You will grope about in broad daylight like a blind person, and you will not be able to find your way. You will not prosper in anything you do. You will be constantly oppressed and robbed, and there will be no one to help you.
30. “You will be engaged to a young woman — but someone else will marry her. You will build a house — but never live in it. You will plant a vineyard — but never eat its grapes.
31. Your cattle will be butchered before your very eyes, but you will not eat any of the meat. Your donkeys will be dragged away while you look on, and they will not be given back to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and there will be no one to help you.
32. Your sons and daughters will be given as slaves to foreigners while you look on. Every day you will strain your eyes, looking in vain for your children to return.
33. A foreign nation will take all the crops that you have worked so hard to grow, while you receive nothing but constant oppression and harsh treatment.
34. Your sufferings will make you lose your mind.
35. The Lord will cover your legs with incurable, painful sores; boils will cover you from head to foot.
36. “The Lord will take you and your king away to a foreign land, where neither you nor your ancestors ever lived before; there you will serve gods made of wood and stone.
37. In the countries to which the Lord will scatter you, the people will be shocked at what has happened to you; they will make fun of you and ridicule you.
38. “You will sow plenty of seed, but reap only a small harvest, because the locusts will eat your crops.
39. You will plant vineyards and take care of them, but you will not gather their grapes or drink wine from them, because worms will eat the vines.
40. Olive trees will grow everywhere in your land, but you will not have any olive oil, because the olives will drop off.
41. You will have sons and daughters, but you will lose them, because they will be taken away as prisoners of war.
42. All your trees and crops will be devoured by insects.
43. “Foreigners who live in your land will gain more and more power, while you gradually lose yours.
44. They will have money to lend you, but you will have none to lend them. In the end they will be your rulers.