40. There shall be olive trees for you in all of your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself, for your olives shall drop off.
41. You shall bear sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for they shall go into captivity.
42. The cricket shall take possession of all your trees and the fruit of your ground.
43. The alien that is in your midst shall ascend over you, higher and higher, but you shall go down lower and lower.
44. He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, but you shall be the tail.
45. “And all of these curses shall come over you, and they shall pursue you, and they shall overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, by observing his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you.
46. And they shall be among you as a sign and as a wonder and among your offspring forever.
47. “Because of the fact that you did not serve Yahweh your God with joy and with gladness of heart for the abundance of everything,
48. then you shall serve your enemies, whom Yahweh will send against you under conditions of famine, in thirst, in nakedness, and in a lack of everything; and he shall place a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.
49. Yahweh will raise up against you a nation from far off, from the end of the earth, attacking as the eagle swoops down, a nation whose language you will not understand,
50. a grim-faced nation who does not show respect to the old and the young and does not show pity.
51. And it shall consume the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground until you are destroyed, and who will not leave for you any grain, wine, and olive oil, calves of your herds, and lambs of your flock until it has destroyed you.
52. And it shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls fall, which you are trusting in throughout your land; and it shall besiege you in all of your towns in all of your land that Yahweh your God has given to you.
53. And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and your daughters, whom Yahweh your God gave to you, during the siege and during the distress your enemy inflicts upon you.
54. The most refined and the very sensitive man among you shall be mean with his brother and against his beloved wife and against the rest of his children that he has left over,
55. by refraining from giving to even one of them any of the meat of his children that he eats, because there is not anything that is left over for him during the siege and distress that your enemy inflicts upon you.
56. The most refined and the most delicate woman among you, who shall not venture to put the sole of her foot on the ground from being so delicate and from such gentleness, shall be mean to her beloved husband and against her son and against her daughter,
57. and even concerning her afterbirth that goes out from between her feet and also concerning her children that she bears, because she eats them for lack of anything in secret during the siege and during the distress that your enemy inflicts upon her in your towns.