41. Sons and daughters you will father—but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.
42. All your trees and the produce of your soil the whirring locust will possess.
43. “The outsider who is in your midst will rise up higher and higher above you, and you will go down lower and lower.
44. He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him; he will become the head and you will become the tail.
45. “All these curses will come upon you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed—because you did not listen to the voice of Adonai your God, to keep His mitzvot and statutes that He commanded you.
46. They will be a sign and a wonder on you and your descendants forever.