18. Your children will be cursed. Your crops will be cursed. The calves of your cattle will be cursed. And the lambs of your flocks will be cursed.
19. You will be cursed when you go in and when you go out.
20. The Lord will send you curses, confusion and punishment in everything you do. You will be destroyed. You will suddenly be ruined. You did wrong when you left him.
21. The Lord will give you terrible diseases. He will destroy you from the land you are going to take.
22. The Lord will punish you with disease, fever, swelling, heat, no rain, plant diseases and mildew. Then you will die.
23. The sky above will look like bronze. And the ground below will be like iron.
24. The Lord will turn the rain into dust and sand. It will fall from the skies until you are destroyed.
25. The Lord will let your enemies defeat you. You will attack them from one direction. But you will run from them in seven directions. And you will become a thing of horror among all the kingdoms on earth.
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 punish you with boils like those the Egyptians had. You will have bad growths, sores and itches that can’t be cured.
28. The Lord will give you madness, blindness and a confused mind.