33. A people you don’t know will eat your land’s produce and everything you have labored for. You will only be oppressed and crushed continually.
34. You will be driven mad by what you see.
35. The Lord will afflict you with painful and incurable boils on your knees and thighs — from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.
36. “The Lord will bring you and your king that you have appointed to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone.
37. You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.
38. “You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because locusts will devour it.
39. You will plant and cultivate vineyards but not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.
40. You will have olive trees throughout your territory but not anoint yourself with oil, because your olives will drop off.
41. You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will be taken prisoner.
42. Whirring insects will take possession of all your trees and your land’s produce.
43. The foreign resident among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink lower and lower.
44. He will lend to you, but you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.