40. You will have olive trees throughout your territory but not anoint yourself with oil, because your olives will drop off.
41. You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will be taken prisoner.
42. Whirring insects will take possession of all your trees and your land’s produce.
43. The foreign resident among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink lower and lower.
44. He will lend to you, but you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
45. “All these curses will come, pursue, and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the Lord your God and keep the commands and statutes He gave you.
46. These curses will be a sign and a wonder against you and your descendants forever.
47. Because you didn’t serve the Lord your God with joy and a cheerful heart, even though you had an abundance of everything,
48. you will serve your enemies the Lord will send against you, in famine, thirst, nakedness, and a lack of everything. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
49. The Lord will bring a nation from far away, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down on you like an eagle, a nation whose language you don’t understand,