43. The stranger that is in the midst of thee shall mount up above thee higher and higher; and thou shalt come down lower and lower.
44. He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
45. And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:
46. and they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever:
47. because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things:
48. therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the Lord shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
49. The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
50. a nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young: