14. Do everything I’m commanding you today. Never worship other gods or serve them.
15. Obey the Lord your God, and faithfully follow all his commands and laws that I am giving you today. If you don’t, all these curses will come to you and stay close to you:
16. You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.
17. The grain you harvest and the bread you bake will be cursed.
18. You will be cursed. You will have few children. Your land will have few crops. Your cattle will be cursed with few calves, and your flocks will have few lambs and kids.
19. You will be cursed when you come and cursed when you go.
20. The Lord will send you curses, panic, and frustration in everything you do until you’re destroyed and quickly disappear for the evil you will do by abandoning the Lord.
21. The Lord will send one plague after another on you until he wipes you out of the land you’re about to enter and take possession of.
22. The Lord will strike you with disease, fever, and inflammation; heat waves, drought, scorching winds, and ruined crops. They will pursue you until you die.
23. The sky above will look like bronze, and the ground below will be as hard as iron.