37. You will become a horror, a proverb, and a byword—among all the peoples where Adonai will drive you.
38. “Much seed you will take out to the field—but little will you bring in, for the locust will eat it up.
39. Vineyards you will plant and tend—but wine you will not drink or bring in, for the worm will devour it.
40. Olive trees you will have in all your territory—but oil you will not rub on yourself, for your olives will drop off.
41. Sons and daughters you will father—but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.
42. All your trees and the produce of your soil the whirring locust will possess.
43. “The outsider who is in your midst will rise up higher and higher above you, and you will go down lower and lower.
44. He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him; he will become the head and you will become the tail.