²⁵“The Lord will give your enemies victory over you. You will attack them from one direction, but you will run from them in all directions, and all the people on earth will be terrified when they see what happens to you. ²⁶When you die, birds and wild animals will come and eat your bodies, and there will be no one to scare them off. ²⁷The Lord will send boils on you, as he did on the Egyptians. He will make your bodies break out with sores. You will be covered with scabs, and you will itch, but there will be no cure. ²⁸The Lord will make you lose your mind; he will strike you with blindness and confusion. ²⁹You will grope about in broad daylight like a blind person, and you will not be able to find your way. You will not prosper in anything you do. You will be constantly oppressed and robbed, and there will be no one to help you.

³⁰“You will be engaged to a young woman—but someone else will marry her. You will build a house—but never live in it. You will plant a vineyard—but never eat its grapes. ³¹Your cattle will be butchered before your very eyes, but you will not eat any of the meat. Your donkeys will be dragged away while you look on, and they will not be given back to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and there will be no one to help you. ³²Your sons and daughters will be given as slaves to foreigners while you look on. Every day you will strain your eyes, looking in vain for your children to return. ³³A foreign nation will take all the crops that you have worked so hard to grow, while you receive nothing but constant oppression and harsh treatment. ³⁴Your sufferings will make you lose your mind. ³⁵The Lord will cover your legs with incurable, painful sores; boils will cover you from head to foot.

³⁶“The Lord will take you and your king away to a foreign land, where neither you nor your ancestors ever lived before; there you will serve gods made of wood and stone. ³⁷In the countries to which the Lord will scatter you, the people will be shocked at what has happened to you; they will make fun of you and ridicule you.

³⁸“You will sow plenty of seed, but reap only a small harvest, because the locusts will eat your crops. ³⁹You will plant vineyards and take care of them, but you will not gather their grapes or drink wine from them, because worms will eat the vines. ⁴⁰Olive trees will grow everywhere in your land, but you will not have any olive oil, because the olives will drop off. ⁴¹You will have sons and daughters, but you will lose them, because they will be taken away as prisoners of war.

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