16. "Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country.
17. "Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
18. "Cursed shall be the offspring of your body and the produce of your ground, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.
19. "Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.
20. "The Lord will send upon you curses, confusion, and rebuke, in all you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken Me.
21. The Lord will make the pestilence cling to you until He has consumed you from the land where you are entering to possess it.
22. The Lord will smite you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with the sword and with blight and with mildew, and they will pursue you until you perish.
23. The heaven which is over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you, iron.
24. The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.
25. "The Lord shall cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you will go out one way against them, but you will flee seven ways before them, and you will be an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
26. Your carcasses will be food to all birds of the sky and to the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.
27. "The Lord will smite you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scab and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.
28. The Lord will smite you with madness and with blindness and with bewilderment of heart;
29. and you will grope at noon, as the blind man gropes in darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways; but you shall only be oppressed and robbed continually, with none to save you.
30. You shall betroth a wife, but another man will violate her; you shall build a house, but you will not live in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but you will not use its fruit.
31. Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat of it; your donkey shall be torn away from you, and will not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you will have none to save you.
32. Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and yearn for them continually; but there will be nothing you can do.
33. A people whom you do not know shall eat up the produce of your ground and all your labors, and you will never be anything but oppressed and crushed continually.