38. You shall carry much seed out into the field and shall gather little in, for the locust shall consume it. [Fulfilled in Hag. 1:6.]
39. You shall plant vineyards and dress them but shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them.
40. You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory but you shall not anoint yourselves with the oil, for your olive trees shall drop their fruit.
41. You shall beget sons and daughters but shall not enjoy them, for they shall go into captivity. [Fulfilled in Lam. 1:5.]
42. All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust possess. [Fulfilled in Joel 1:4.]
43. The transient (stranger) among you shall mount up higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.
44. He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
45. All these curses shall come upon you and shall pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.
46. They shall be upon you for a sign [of warning to other nations] and for a wonder, and upon your descendants forever.
47. Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness of [mind and] heart [in gratitude] for the abundance of all [with which He had blessed you],