58. “If you do not obey faithfully all God's teachings that are written in this book and if you do not honour the wonderful and awesome name of the Lord your God,
59. he will send on you and on your descendants incurable diseases and horrible epidemics that can never be stopped.
60. He will bring on you once again all the dreadful diseases you experienced in Egypt, and you will never recover.
61. He will also send all kinds of diseases and epidemics that are not mentioned in this book of God's laws and teachings, and you will be destroyed.
62. Although you become as numerous as the stars in the sky, only a few of you will survive, because you did not obey the Lord your God.
63. Just as the Lord took delight in making you prosper and in making you increase in number, so he will take delight in destroying you and in bringing ruin on you. You will be uprooted from the land that you are about to occupy.
64. “The Lord will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve gods made of wood and stone, gods that neither you nor your ancestors have ever worshipped before.
65. You will find no peace anywhere, no place to call your own; the Lord will overwhelm you with anxiety, hopelessness, and despair.
66. Your life will always be in danger. Day and night you will be filled with terror, and you will live in constant fear of death.
67. Your hearts will pound with fear at everything you see. Every morning you will wish for evening; every evening you will wish for morning.