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,
48. in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and utter want, you will serve the enemies whom the Lord will send against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck, until he destroys you.