Deuteronomy 28:38-48

38You will plant many seeds in your fields, but you will not have much food at harvest time. Instead, locusts will eat your crops.

39You will plant vineyards to grow grapes. You will take care of the plants. But you will not drink any wine or bring in any grapes. Instead, worms will eat them.

40Olive trees will grow everywhere in your land, but you will never use any oil from them. The olives will drop off the trees before they are ready to pick.

41You will give birth to sons and daughters, but you will lose them. Enemies will take them away as prisoners.

42Crowds of locusts will eat all your trees and the food from your fields.

43Foreign people who live among you will become stronger and stronger. They will have more and more power over you, as you become weaker.

44They will lend money to you, but you will not lend money to them. They will become your leaders. You will have to follow behind them.

45All these curses will happen to you. They will be like an enemy that chases after you, catches you, and destroys you. That will happen to you, if you refuse to obey the Lord your God. If you do not obey his commands and his rules that he has given to you, these troubles will happen to you.

46They will show that God is very angry with you. You and your descendants will know that for ever.

47The Lord has given you many good things. But you have not agreed to serve the Lord your God with joy.

48So you will serve your enemies that the Lord will send to attack you. You will be hungry and thirsty. You will be so poor that you do not even have clothes to wear. Your enemies will make you work so hard that they will destroy you.