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,
50. a ruthless nation, showing no respect for the old and not sparing the young.
51. They will eat the offspring of your livestock and your land’s produce until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, oil, young of your herds, or newborn of your flocks until they cause you to perish.
52. They will besiege you within all your gates until your high and fortified walls, that you trust in, come down throughout your land. They will besiege you within all your gates throughout the land the Lord your God has given you.
53. “You will eat your children, the flesh of your sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you.
54. The most sensitive and refined man among you will look grudgingly at his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children,
55. refusing to share with any of them his children’s flesh that he will eat because he has nothing left during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you in all your towns.
56. The most sensitive and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her refinement and sensitivity, will begrudge the husband she embraces, her son, and her daughter,