58 If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law,f which are written in this book, and do not revereg this glorious and awesome nameh—the Lord your God—59 the Lord will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses. 60 He will bring on you all the diseases of Egypti that you dreaded, and they will cling to you. 61 The Lord will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law,j until you are destroyed.k 62 You who were as numerous as the stars in the skyl will be left but fewm in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God. 63 Just as it pleasedn the Lord to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will pleaseo him to ruin and destroy you.p You will be uprootedq from the land you are entering to possess.

64 Then the Lord will scatterr you among all nations,s from one end of the earth to the other.t There you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.u 65 Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting placev for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you an anxious mind, eyesw weary with longing, and a despairing heart.x 66 You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life. 67 In the morning you will say, “If only it were evening!” and in the evening, “If only it were morning!”—because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see.y 68 The Lord will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again.z There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.