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Deuteronomy 28:35-45 English Standard Version (ESV)

35. The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

36. “The Lord will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone.

37. And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away.

38. You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for the locust shall consume it.

39. You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you 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 yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off.

41. You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for they shall go into captivity.

42. The cricket shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground.

43. The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.

44. He shall lend to you, and 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 pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you.