30. Though you betroth a wife, another will have her. Though you build a house, you will not live in it. Though you plant a vineyard, you will not pluck its fruits.
31. Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat its flesh. Your donkey will be stolen in your presence, but you will never get it back. Your flocks will be given to your enemies, with no one to come to your aid.
32. Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you strain your eyes looking for them every day, having no power to do anything.
33. A people you do not know will consume the fruit of your soil and of all your labor, and you will be thoroughly oppressed and continually crushed,
34. until you are driven mad by what your eyes must look upon.
35. The Lord will strike you with malignant boils of which you cannot be cured, on your knees and legs, and from the soles of your feet to the crown of your head.
36. The Lord will bring you, and your king whom you have set over you, to a nation which you and your ancestors have not known, and there you will serve other gods, of wood and stone,
37. and you will be a horror, a byword, a taunt among all the peoples to which the Lord will drive you.
38. Though you take out seed to your field, you will harvest but little, for the locusts will devour it.
39. Though you plant and cultivate vineyards, you will not drink or store up the wine, for the worms will eat them.
40. Though you have olive trees throughout your country, you will have no oil for ointment, for your olives will drop off.
41. Though you beget sons and daughters, they will not remain with you, for they will go into captivity.
42. Buzzing insects will take possession of all your trees and the crops of your soil.
43. The resident aliens among you will rise above you higher and higher, while you sink lower and lower.
44. They will lend to you, not you to them. They will become the head, you the tail.
45. All these curses will come upon you, pursuing you and overwhelming you, until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord, your God, by keeping his commandments and statutes which he gave you.
46. They will be a sign and a wonder for you and your descendants for all time.
47. Since you would not serve the Lord, your God, with heartfelt joy for abundance of every kind,