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.