23. The heavens over your heads will be like bronze and the earth under your feet like iron.
24. For rain the Lord will give your land powdery dust, which will come down upon you from the heavens until you are destroyed.
25. The Lord will let you be beaten down before your enemies; though you advance against them from one direction, you will flee before them in seven, so that you will become an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
26. Your corpses will become food for all the birds of the air and for the beasts of the field, with no one to frighten them off.
27. The Lord will strike you with Egyptian boils and with tumors, skin diseases and the itch, from none of which you can be cured.
28. And the Lord will strike you with madness, blindness and panic,
29. so that even at midday you will grope in the dark as though blind, unable to find your way. You will be oppressed and robbed continually, with no one to come to your aid.
30. Though you betroth a wife, another will have her. Though you build a house, you will not live in it. Though you plant a vineyard, you will not pluck its fruits.