20. Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit.
21. “ ‘If you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve.
22. I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted.