Deuteronomy 28:38-47

38“1You will bring out a great amount of seed to the field, but you will gather in little, because 2the locust will devour it. 393You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but you will neither drink of the wine nor bring in the harvest, because the worm will eat it. 404You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, because your olives will drop off prematurely. 415You will father sons and daughters but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity. 426The cricket will take possession of all your trees and the produce of your ground. 437The stranger who is among you will rise above you higher and higher, and you will go down lower and lower. 448He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him; 9he will be the head, and you will be the tail.

45“So all these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you 10until you are destroyed, because you would not 11obey the Lord your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you. 46And they will become 12a sign and a wonder 13against you and your 14descendants forever.

47“15Since you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and a cheerful heart, in gratitude for the abundance of all things,