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.