32. Your sons and daughters will be dragged off to a foreign country, while you stand there helpless. And even if you watch for them until you go blind, you will never see them again.
33. You will work hard on your farms, but everything you harvest will be eaten by foreigners, who will ill-treat you and abuse you for the rest of your life.
34. What you see will be so horrible that you will go insane,
35. and the Lord will punish you from head to toe with boils that never heal.
36. The Lord will let you and your king be taken captive to a country that you and your ancestors have never even heard of, and there you will have to worship idols made of wood and stone.
37. People of nearby countries will shudder when they see your terrible troubles, but they will still make fun of you.
38. You will plant a lot of seed, but gather a small harvest, because locusts will eat your crops.
39. You will plant vineyards and work hard at taking care of them, but you won't gather any grapes, much less get any wine, and the vines themselves will be eaten by worms.
40. Even if your olive trees grow everywhere in your country, the olives will fall off before they are ready, and there won't be enough olive oil for combing your hair.
41. Even your infant sons and daughters will be taken as prisoners of war.
42. Locusts will eat your crops and strip your trees of leaves and fruit.
43. Foreigners in your towns will become wealthy and powerful, while you become poor and powerless.
44. You will be so short of money that you will have to borrow from those foreigners. They will be the leaders in the community, and you will be the followers.
45. Israel, if you don't obey the laws and teachings that the Lord your God is giving you, he will send these curses to chase, attack, and destroy you.
46. Then everyone will look at you and your descendants and realize that the Lord has placed you under a curse.
47. If the Lord makes you wealthy, but you don't joyfully worship and honour him,
48. he will send enemies to attack you and make you their slaves. Then you will live in poverty with nothing to eat, drink, or wear, and your owners will work you to death.
49. Foreigners who speak a strange language will be sent to attack you without warning, just like an eagle swooping down.