Deuteronomy 28:45–52

^45v“All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you. ⁴⁶They shall be ^wa sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever. ^47xBecause you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, ⁴⁸therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he ^ywill put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you. ^49zThe Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, ^aswooping down like the eagle, a nation ^bwhose language you do not understand, ⁵⁰a hard-faced nation ^cwho shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young. ⁵¹It shall ^deat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.

⁵²“They shall ^ebesiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the Lord your God has given you.