12. The Lord will open for you His abundant storehouse, the sky, to give your land rain in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.
13. The Lord will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward if you listen to the Lord your God’s commands I am giving you today and are careful to follow them.
14. Do not turn aside to the right or the left from all the things I am commanding you today, and do not go after other gods to worship them.
15. “But if you do not obey the Lord your God by carefully following all His commands and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overtake you:
16. You will be cursed in the cityand cursed in the country.
17. Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.
18. Your descendants will be cursed,and your land’s produce,the young of your herds,and the newborn of your flocks.
19. You will be cursed when you come inand cursed when you go out.
20. The Lord will send against you curses, confusion, and rebuke in everything you do until you are destroyed and quickly perish, because of the wickedness of your actions in abandoning Me.
21. The Lord will make pestilence cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land you are entering to possess.
22. The Lord will afflict you with wasting disease, fever, inflammation, burning heat, drought, blight, and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.
23. The sky above you will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.