41. Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be thine; for they shall go into captivity.
42. All thy trees and the fruit of thy ground shall the locust possess.
43. The stranger that is in the midst of thee shall mount up above thee higher and higher; and thou shalt come down lower and lower.
44. He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
45. And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:
46. and they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever:
47. because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things:
48. therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.