38. "You shall bring out much seed to the field but you will gather in little, for the locust will consume it.
39. You shall plant and cultivate vineyards, but you will neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm will devour them.
40. You shall have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.
41. You shall have sons and daughters but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.
42. The cricket shall possess all your trees and the produce of your ground.
43. The alien who is among you shall rise above you higher and higher, but you will go down lower and lower.
44. He shall lend to you, but you will not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you will be the tail.
45. "So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the Lord your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.
46. They shall become a sign and a wonder on you and your descendants forever.
47. "Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and a glad heart, for the abundance of all things;
48. therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.