40. You will have olive trees in all your land, but you will not get any olive oil, because the olives will drop off the trees.
41. You will have sons and daughters, but you will not be able to keep them, because they will be taken captive.
42. Locusts will destroy all your trees and crops.
43. The foreigners who live among you will get stronger and stronger, and you will get weaker and weaker.
44. Foreigners will lend money to you, but you will not be able to lend to them. They will be like the head, and you will be like the tail.
45. All these curses will come upon you. They will chase you and catch you and destroy you, because you did not obey the Lord your God and keep the commands and laws he gave you.