44. “He lends to you, but you do not lend to him. He is the head, and you are the tail.
45. “And all these curses shall come upon you, and they shall pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of יהוה your Elohim, to guard His commands and His laws which He commanded you.
46. “And they shall be upon you for a sign and for a wonder, and on your seed, forever.
47. “Because you did not serve יהוה your Elohim with joy and gladness of heart for all the plenty,
48. you shall serve your enemies whom יהוה sends against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in need of all. And he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.
49. “יהוה brings a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you shall not understand,