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.