37. “Thus you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a mockery among all the peoples to which יהוה drives you.
38. “You take much seed out into the field but gather little in, for the locust consumes it.
39. “You plant vineyards, and shall labour, but you neither drink of the wine nor gather, for the worm eats it.
40. “You have olive trees in all your border, but do not anoint with oil, for your olives drop off.
41. “You bring forth sons and daughters, but they are not with you, for they go into captivity.
42. “Locusts possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground.
43. “The sojourner who is among you rises higher and higher above you, but you come down lower and lower.
44. “He lends to you, but you do not lend to him. He is the head, and you are the tail.
45. “And all these curses shall come upon you, and they shall pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of יהוה your Elohim, to guard His commands and His laws which He commanded you.
46. “And they shall be upon you for a sign and for a wonder, and on your seed, forever.
47. “Because you did not serve יהוה your Elohim with joy and gladness of heart for all the plenty,
48. you shall serve your enemies whom יהוה sends against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in need of all. And he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.
49. “יהוה brings a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you shall not understand,
50. a fierce-looking nation, which shows no regard for the elderly nor show favour to the young,
51. and they shall eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your land, until you are destroyed. They leave you no grain, nor new wine, nor oil, nor the increase of your cattle or the offspring of your flocks, until they have destroyed you.
52. “And they shall besiege you at all your gates till your high and fenced walls, in which you are trusting, come down in all your land. And they shall besiege you at all your gates in all your land which יהוה your Elohim has given you.