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.