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.