39. You will plant vineyards and work hard in them, but you will not pick the grapes or drink the wine, because the worms will eat them.
40. You will have olive trees in all your land, but you will not get any olive oil, because the olives will drop off the trees.
41. You will have sons and daughters, but you will not be able to keep them, because 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, because you did not obey the Lord your God and 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, and 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, from the end of the world, and it will swoop down like an eagle. You won’t understand their language,
50. and they will look mean. They will not respect old people or feel sorry for the young.
51. They will eat the calves from your herds and the harvest of your field, and you will be destroyed. They will not leave you any grain, new wine or oil, or any calves from your herds or lambs from your flocks. You will be ruined.