36. The Lord will force you and your king whom you will appoint over you to go away to a people whom you and your ancestors have not known, and you will serve other gods of wood and stone there.
37. You will become an occasion of horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule to all the peoples to whom the Lord will drive you.
38. “You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it.
39. You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them.
40. You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with olive oil, because the olives will drop off the trees while still unripe.
41. You will bear sons and daughters but not keep them, because they will be taken into captivity.
42. Whirring locusts will take over every tree and all the produce of your soil.
43. The foreigners who reside among you will become higher and higher over you and you will become lower and lower.