36. Yahweh will bring you and your king whom you set up over you to a nation that you or your ancestors have not known, and there you will serve other gods of wood and stone.
37. And you will become a horror and a proverb and ridicule among all the peoples where Yahweh drives you there.
38. “You shall carry out much seed to the field, but you shall gather little produce, for the locust shall devour it.
39. You shall plant vineyards and you shall dress them, but you shall not drink wine and you shall not gather grapes, for the worm shall eat it.
40. There shall be olive trees for you in all of your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself, for your olives shall drop off.
41. You shall bear sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for they shall go into captivity.
42. The cricket shall take possession of all your trees and the fruit of your ground.
43. The alien that is in your midst shall ascend over you, higher and higher, but you shall go down lower and lower.
44. He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, but you shall be the tail.
45. “And all of these curses shall come over you, and they shall pursue you, and they shall overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, by observing his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you.