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.
46. These curses will be a sign and a wonder against you and your descendants forever.
47. Because you didn’t serve the Lord your God with joy and a cheerful heart, even though you had an abundance of everything,
48. you will serve your enemies the Lord will send against you, in famine, thirst, nakedness, and a lack of everything. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
49. The Lord will bring a nation from far away, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down on you like an eagle, a nation whose language you don’t understand,
50. a ruthless nation, showing no respect for the old and not sparing the young.
51. They will eat the offspring of your livestock and your land’s produce until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, oil, young of your herds, or newborn of your flocks until they cause you to perish.
52. They will besiege you within all your gates until your high and fortified walls, that you trust in, come down throughout your land. They will besiege you within all your gates throughout the land the Lord your God has given you.
53. “You will eat your children, the flesh of your sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you.
54. The most sensitive and refined man among you will look grudgingly at his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children,