39. You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor harvest, because worms will eat them.
40. You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you won’t anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives will drop off.
41. You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours; for they will go into captivity.
42. Locusts will consume all of your trees and the fruit of your ground.
43. The foreigner who is among you will mount up above you higher and higher, and you will come down lower and lower.
44. He will lend to you, and you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
45. All these curses will come on you, and will pursue you, and overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you.
46. They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and to your offspring forever.
47. Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
48. therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck, until he has destroyed you.
49. Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you will not understand;