Deuteronomy 28:23-48

23Your sky above your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.

24Adonai will make the rain of your land powder and dust—it will come down on you from the heavens, until you are destroyed.

25“Adonai will bring you to defeat before your enemies. You will go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. You will become a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

26Your carcass will be food for every bird of the heavens and beast of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

27“Adonai will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with hemorrhoids, with scabs and with itching, from which you cannot be healed.

28“Adonai will strike you with madness, with blindness, and with confusion of heart.

29You will grope at noon as the blind person gropes in darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways. You will be only oppressed and robbed all the time, and there will be no one to save you.

30“You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will sleep with her. You will build a house, but you will not dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not put it to use.

31Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be stolen in front of you, and it will not be returned to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you.

32“Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while your eyes look on, longing for them all day long—but your hand will be powerless.

33A people you do not know will eat up the produce of your soil and all your labor, and you will be only oppressed and crushed all the time.

34You will be driven mad by the sight that your eyes will see.

35“Adonai will strike you on the knees and thighs with severe boils, from which you cannot be healed—from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

36“Adonai will bring you and the king you set over you to a nation you and your fathers have not known—and there you will serve other gods, wood and stone.

37You will become a horror, a proverb, and a byword—among all the peoples where Adonai will drive you.

38“Much seed you will take out to the field—but little will you bring in, for the locust will eat it up.

39Vineyards you will plant and tend—but wine you will not drink or bring in, for the worm will devour it.

40Olive trees you will have in all your territory—but oil you will not rub on yourself, for your olives will drop off.

41Sons and daughters you will father—but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.

42All your trees and the produce of your soil the whirring locust will possess.

43“The outsider who is in your midst will rise up higher and higher above you, and you will go down lower and lower.

44He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him; he will become the head and you will become the tail.

45“All these curses will come upon you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed—because you did not listen to the voice of Adonai your God, to keep His mitzvot and statutes that He commanded you.

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

47Instead of serving Adonai your God with joy and goodness of heart, out of the abundance of everything,

48you will serve your enemies, whom Adonai will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and lacking everything; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.