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Deuteronomy 28:36-43 English Standard Version (ESV)

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.