The Scriptures 1998

Deuteronomy 28:33-43 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

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.

41. “You bring forth sons and daughters, but they are not with you, for they go into captivity.

42. “Locusts possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground.

43. “The sojourner who is among you rises higher and higher above you, but you come down lower and lower.