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.
46. And they shall be among you as a sign and as a wonder and among your offspring forever.
47. “Because of the fact that you did not serve Yahweh your God with joy and with gladness of heart for the abundance of everything,
48. then you shall serve your enemies, whom Yahweh will send against you under conditions of famine, in thirst, in nakedness, and in a lack of everything; and he shall place a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.
49. Yahweh will raise up against you a nation from far off, from the end of the earth, attacking as the eagle swoops down, a nation whose language you will not understand,
50. a grim-faced nation who does not show respect to the old and the young and does not show pity.
51. And it shall consume the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground until you are destroyed, and who will not leave for you any grain, wine, and olive oil, calves of your herds, and lambs of your flock until it has destroyed you.
52. And it shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls fall, which you are trusting in throughout your land; and it shall besiege you in all of your towns in all of your land that Yahweh your God has given to you.