40. You will have olive trees in all your land. But you will not get any olive oil. The olives will drop off the trees.
41. You will have sons and daughters. But you will not be able to keep them. They will be taken captive.
42. Locusts will destroy all your trees and crops.
43. The foreigners who live among you will get stronger and stronger. And you will get weaker and weaker.
44. Foreigners will lend money to you. But you will not be able to lend to them. They will be like the head. And you will be like the tail.
45. All these curses will come upon you. They will chase you and catch you and destroy you. This will happen because you did not obey the Lord your God. You did not keep the commands and laws he gave you.
46. The curses will be signs and miracles to you and your descendants forever.
47. You had plenty of everything. But you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and a pure heart.
48. So you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. You will be hungry, thirsty, naked and poor. The Lord will put a load on you until he has destroyed you.
49. The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away. It will be from the end of the world. The nation will swoop down like an eagle. You won’t understand their language.
50. They will look mean. They will not respect old people or feel sorry for the young.