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 the Lord 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 the Lord 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 the Lord 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. The Lord 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;
50. a nation of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the elderly, nor show favor to the young,
51. and they will eat the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed. They also won’t leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
52. They will besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land. They will besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which the Lord your God has given you.
53. You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.
54. The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining;
55. so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in all your gates.
56. The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband that she loves, toward her son, toward her daughter,
57. toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of all things, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates.