Deuteronomy 28:38-47

38“You will bring out a great quantity of seed to the field, but you will gather in little, because the locusts will consume it.

39You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because the worm will eat them.

40You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourselves with the oil, because your olives will drop off.

41You will have sons and daughters, but they will not be yours [for long], because they will go into captivity.

42The cricket will take possession of all your trees and the produce of your ground.

43The stranger who lives among you will rise above you higher and higher, and you will go down lower and lower.

44He will lend to you [out of his affluence], but you will not lend to him [because of your poverty]; he will be the head, and you the tail.

45“So all these curses will come on you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He has commanded you.

46They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever.

47“Because you did not serve the Lord your God with a heart full of joy and gladness for the abundance of all things [with which He blessed you],