And you will be groping at noonday just as the blind man gropes in darkness; and you will not succeed in your ventures, but will only be oppressed and plundered always; and no one will save you.

You will get engaged to a woman, but another man will ravish her; you will build a house, but you will not dwell in it; you will plant a vineyard, but you will not partake of it.

Your ox will be slaughtered in your sight, but you will not eat of it; your donkey will be torn away from before you, but it will not be returned to you; your sheep will be given to your enemies, but no one will rescue them for you.

Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while your eyes look on and fail from longing after them all the day, but you will be powerless.

A people whom you have not known will eat the fruit of your ground and all your hard-earned produce, and you will be only oppressed and crushed always.

And you will go mad because of the sight before your eyes which you will see.

Jehovah will strike you on the knees and legs with terrible boils, of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.

Jehovah will bring you and your king, whom you will have set over you, to a nation which you and your fathers have not known; and there you will serve other gods, mere wood and stone.

And you will become a source of horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples to whom Jehovah will drive you.

You will put out much seed in the field, but you will harvest little; for the locust will consume it.

You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will not drink the wine nor gather the grapes; for the worm will devour them.

You will have olive trees in all your territory, but you will not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives will drop off.

You will beget sons and daughters, but they will not remain with you; for they will go into captivity.

The locust will take possession of all your trees and the fruit of your ground.

The sojourner who is in your midst will rise above you higher and higher, but you will go down lower and lower.

He will lend to you, and you will not lend to him; he will be the head and you will be the tail.

And 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 Jehovah your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes, which He commanded you;

And they will be with you and with your seed as a sign and wonder forever.

Because you did not serve Jehovah your God with rejoicing and gladness of heart on account of the abundance of all things,

You will serve your enemies, whom Jehovah will send out against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.