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.