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.
45. “All these curses will come, pursue, and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the Lord your God and keep the commands and statutes He gave you.