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.
44. They will lend to you but you will not lend to them; they will become the head and you will become the tail!
45. All these curses will fall on you, pursuing and overtaking you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the Lord your God by keeping his commandments and statutes that he has given you.
46. These curses will be a perpetual sign and wonder with reference to you and your descendants.
47. “Because you have not served the Lord your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have,
48. instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you. They will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.
49. The Lord will raise up a distant nation against you, one from the other side of the earth as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand,
50. a nation of stern appearance that will have no regard for the elderly or pity for the young.
51. They will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, or lambs of your flocks until they have destroyed you.
52. They will besiege all of your villages until all of your high and fortified walls collapse – those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the Lord your God has given you.
53. You will then eat your own offspring, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege by which your enemies will constrict you.