30. “You become engaged to a wife, but another man does lie with her. You build a house, but do not dwell in it. You plant a vineyard, but do not use its fruit.
31. “Your ox is slaughtered before your eyes, but you do not eat of it. Your donkey is violently taken from before you, and it is not given back to you. Your sheep are given to your enemies, with no one to save them.
32. “Your sons and your daughters are given to another people, and your eyes look and fail for them all day long, and your hand powerless.
33. “A people whom you have not known eat the fruit of your land and all your labours. And you shall be only oppressed and crushed all the days.
34. “And you shall be maddened because of the sight which your eyes see.
35. “יהוה smites you in the knees and on the legs with evil boils of which you are unable to be healed, and from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.
36. “יהוה brings you and the sovereign whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other mighty ones, wood and stone.
37. “Thus you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a mockery among all the peoples to which יהוה drives you.
38. “You take much seed out into the field but gather little in, for the locust consumes it.
39. “You plant vineyards, and shall labour, but you neither drink of the wine nor gather, for the worm eats it.
40. “You have olive trees in all your border, but do not anoint with oil, for your olives drop off.