34. So you shall be driven mad because of the sight which your eyes see.
35. The Lord will strike you in the knees and on the legs with severe boils which cannot be healed, and from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.
36. “The Lord will bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods—wood and stone.
37. And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all nations where the Lord will drive you.
38. “You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather little in, for the locust shall consume it.
39. You shall plant vineyards and tend them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
40. You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off.
41. You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.
42. Locusts shall consume all your trees and the produce of your land.
43. “The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.
44. He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.