40. You will have olive trees through your whole country. But you won't use the oil. The olives will drop off the trees.
41. You will have children. But you won't be able to keep them. They'll be taken away as prisoners.
42. Large numbers of locusts will eat up the leaves on all of your trees. They will also eat up the crops on your land.
43. Outsiders who live among you will become your leaders. They will rise higher and higher. But you will sink lower and lower.
44. They will lend money to you. But you won't be able to lend money to them. They will be the leaders. But you will be the followers.
45. The Lord your God will send all of those curses on you. They will follow you everywhere. They'll catch up with you. You will be under the Lord's curse until you are destroyed. That's because you didn't obey him. You didn't keep the commands and rules he gave you.