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.
50. They won't show any mercy, and they will have no respect for old people or pity for children.
51. They will take your cattle, sheep, goats, grain, wine, and olive oil, then leave you to starve.
52. All over the land that the Lord your God gave you, the enemy army will surround your towns. You may feel safe inside your town walls, but the enemy will tear them down,
53. while you wait in horror. Finally, you will get so hungry that you will eat the sons and daughters that the Lord gave you.
54-55. Because of hunger, a man who had been gentle and kind will eat his own children and refuse to share the meal with his brother or wife or with his other children.
56-57. A woman may have grown up in such luxury that she never had to put a foot on the ground. But times will be so bad that she will secretly eat both her newborn baby and the afterbirth, without sharing any with her husband or her other children.
58. You must obey everything in The Book of God's Law. Because if you don't respect the Lord,
59. he will punish you and your descendants with incurable diseases,
60. like those you were so afraid of in Egypt.
61. Remember! If the Lord decides to destroy your nation, he can use any disease or disaster, not just the ones written in The Book of God's Law.
62. There are as many of you now as the stars in the sky, but if you disobey the Lord your God, only a few of you will be left.
63. The Lord is happy to make you successful and to help your nation grow while you conquer the land. But if you disobey him, he will be just as happy to pull you up by your roots.