Deuteronomy 28:45-68

45“So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you 1until you are destroyed, because you would not 2obey the Lord your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you. 46They shall become 3a sign and a wonder on you and your 4descendants forever.

47“5Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and a glad heart, for the abundance of all things; 48therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, 6in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and He 7will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

49“8The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, 9as the eagle swoops down, a nation whose language you shall not understand, 50a nation of fierce countenance who will 10have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young. 51Moreover, it shall eat the 11offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who also leaves you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the increase of your herd or the young of your flock until they have caused you to perish. 5212It shall besiege you in all your 13towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land, and it shall besiege you in all your 14towns throughout your land which the Lord your God has given you. 5315Then you shall eat the 16offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will 17oppress you. 54The man who is 18refined and very delicate among you 19shall be hostile toward his brother and toward the wife 20he cherishes and toward the rest of his children who remain, 55so that he will not give even one of them any of the flesh of his children which he will eat, since he has nothing else left, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will 21oppress you in all your 22towns. 5623The 24refined and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and 25refinement, 26shall be hostile toward the husband 27she cherishes and toward her son and daughter, 57and toward her afterbirth which issues from between her 28legs and toward her children whom she bears; for 29she will eat them secretly for lack of anything else, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will 30oppress you in your 31towns.

58“If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, to 3233fear this honored and awesome 34name, 35the Lord your God, 59then the Lord will bring extraordinary plagues on you and 36your descendants, even 37severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and chronic sicknesses. 6038He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you. 61Also every sickness and every plague which, not written in the book of this law, the Lord will bring on you 39until you are destroyed. 62Then you shall be left few in number, 40whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not 41obey the Lord your God. 63It shall come about that as the Lord 42delighted over you to prosper you, and multiply you, so the Lord will 43delight over you to make you perish and destroy you; and you will be 44torn from the land where you are entering to possess it. 64Moreover, the Lord will 45scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shall 46serve other gods, wood and stone, which you or your fathers have not known. 6547Among those nations you shall find no rest, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there 48the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul. 66So your life shall 49hang in doubt before you; and you will be in dread night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life. 6750In the morning you shall say, ‘Would that it were evening!’ And at evening you shall say, ‘Would that it were morning!’ because of the dread of your heart which you dread, and for the sight of your eyes which you will see. 68The Lord will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way about which I spoke to you, ‘You will never see it again!’ And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”