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.
45. “All these curses will come upon you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed—because you did not listen to the voice of Adonai your God, to keep His mitzvot and statutes that He commanded you.
46. They will be a sign and a wonder on you and your descendants forever.
47. Instead of serving Adonai your God with joy and goodness of heart, out of the abundance of everything,
48. you will serve your enemies, whom Adonai will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and lacking everything; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
49. “Adonai will raise up a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, just as the eagle swoops down—a nation whose language you will not understand,
50. a brazen-faced nation that will not respect the old or be gracious to the young.