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.
24. The Lord will turn the rain of your land into falling dust; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.