43. The stranger that is among you shall rise up above you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower.
44. He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him: he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
45. Moreover all these curses shall come upon you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, till you are destroyed; because you hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you:
46. And they shall be upon you for a sign and for a wonder, and upon your descendants forever.
47. Because you served not the LORD your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
48. Therefore shall you serve your enemies which the LORD shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon your neck, until he has destroyed you.
49. The LORD shall bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies; a nation whose tongue you shall not understand;
50. A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young:
51. And he shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land, until you are destroyed: who also shall not leave you either grain, wine, or oil, or the increase of your cattle, or offspring of your sheep, until he has destroyed you.