29. In daylight you will have to feel your way like a blind man. You will fail in everything you do. Again and again people will hurt you and steal from you. And there will be no one to save you.
30. “You will be engaged to a woman, but another man will have sexual relations with her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not gather anything from it.
31. People will kill your cattle in front of you, but you will not eat any of the meat. People will take your donkeys, and they will not give them back to you. Your enemies will get your sheep, and there will be no one to help you.
32. “Other people will be allowed to take your sons and your daughters. Day after day you will look for your children. You will look for them until your eyes become weak and blind—but you will not find them. And God will not help you.
33. “A nation that you don’t know will take all your crops and everything you worked for. People will treat you badly and abuse you.
34. The things you see will make you go crazy.
35. The Lord will punish you with sore boils that cannot be healed. These boils will be on your knees and legs. The boils will be on every part of your body—from the bottom of your feet to the top of your head.
36. “The Lord will send you and your king away to a nation you don’t know. You and your ancestors have never seen that nation. There you will serve false gods made of wood and stone.
37. In the countries where the Lord will send you, the people will be shocked at the terrible things that happen to you. They will laugh at you and say bad things about you.
38. “Your fields will produce plenty of grain. But your harvest will be small, because the locusts will eat your harvest.
39. You will plant vineyards and work hard in them. But you will not gather the grapes or drink the wine from them, because the worms will eat them.
40. You will have olive trees everywhere on your land. But you will not have any of the oil to use, because the olives will drop to the ground and rot.
41. You will have sons and daughters. But you will not be able to keep them, because they will be captured and taken away.
42. Locusts will destroy all your trees and the crops in your fields.
43. The foreigners living among you will get more and more power, and you will lose the power you had.
44. The foreigners will have money to loan you, but you will not have any money to loan them. They will control you the way the head controls the body. You will be like the tail.
45. “All these curses will come on you. They will keep chasing you and catching you, until you are destroyed, because you did not listen to what the Lord your God told you. You did not obey the commands and laws that he gave you.
46. These curses will show people that God judged you and your descendants forever. People will be amazed at the terrible things that happen to you.
47. “The Lord your God gave you many blessings. But you did not serve him with joy and a glad heart.
48. So you will serve the enemies the Lord will send against you. You will be hungry, thirsty, naked, and poor. He will put a load on you that cannot be removed. You will carry that load until he destroys you.
49. “The Lord will bring a nation from far away to fight you. You will not understand their language. They will come quickly, like an eagle coming down from the sky.