Deuteronomy 28:23-48

23The sky above you will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.

24The Lord will turn the rain of your land into falling dust; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

25The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

26Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the earth, with no one to scare them away.

27“The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, tumors, a festering rash, and scabies, from which you cannot be cured.

28The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness, and mental confusion,

29so that at noon you will grope as a blind person gropes in the dark. You will not be successful in anything you do. You will only be oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will help you.

30You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not enjoy its fruit.

31Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away from you and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will help you.

32Your sons and daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes grow weary looking for them every day. But you will be powerless to do anything.

33A people you don’t know will eat your land’s produce and everything you have labored for. You will only be oppressed and crushed continually.

34You will be driven mad by what you see.

35The Lord will afflict you with painful and incurable boils on your knees and thighs — from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.

36“The Lord will bring you and your king that you have appointed to a nation neither you nor your ancestors have known, and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone.

37You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.

38“You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because locusts will devour it.

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

40You will have olive trees throughout your territory but not moisten your skin with oil, because your olives will drop off.

41You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will be taken prisoner.

42Buzzing insects will take possession of all your trees and your land’s produce.

43The resident alien among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink lower and lower.

44He will lend to you, but you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.

45“All these curses will come, pursue, and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the Lord your God and keep the commands and statutes he gave you.

46These curses will be a sign and a wonder against you and your descendants forever.

47Because you didn’t serve the Lord your God with joy and a cheerful heart, even though you had an abundance of everything,

48you will serve your enemies that the Lord will send against you, in famine, thirst, nakedness, and a lack of everything. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.