Deuteronomy 28:25–41

²⁵The Lord will let your enemies defeat you. You will attack them from one direction but run away from them in seven directions. You will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms in the world. ²⁶Your dead bodies will be food for all the birds and wild animals. There will be no one to scare them away. ²⁷The Lord will strike you with the same boils that plagued the Egyptians. He will strike you with hemorrhoids,^dsores,^eand itchingthat won’t go away. ²⁸The Lord will strike you with madness, blindness, and panic. ²⁹You will grope in broad daylight as blind people grope in their blindness. You won’t be successful in anything you do.^gAs long as you live, you will be oppressed and robbed with no one to rescue you. 

³⁰You will be engaged to a woman, but another man will have sex with her. You will build a house, but you won’t live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you won’t enjoy the grapes. ³¹Your ox will be butchered as you watch, but you won’t eat any of its meat. You will watch as your donkey is stolen from you, but you’ll never get it back. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue it. ³²You will watch with your own eyes as your sons and daughters are given to another nation. You will strain your eyes looking for them all day long, but there will be nothing you can do. ³³People you never knew will eat what your land and your hard work have produced. As long as you live, you will know nothing but oppression and abuse. ³⁴The things you see will drive you mad. ³⁵The Lord will afflict your knees and legs with severe boils that can’t be cured. The boils will cover your whole body from the soles of your feet to the top of your head. 

³⁶The Lord will lead you and the king you choose to a nation that you and your ancestors never knew. There you will worship gods made of wood and stone. ³⁷You will become a thing of horror. All the nations where the Lord will send you will make an example of you and ridicule you. 

³⁸You will plant many crops in your fields, but harvest little because locusts will destroy your crops. ³⁹You will plant vineyards and take care of them, but you won’t drink any wine or gather any grapes, because worms will eat them. ⁴⁰You will have olive trees everywhere in your country but no olive oil to rub on your skin, because the olives will fall off the trees. ⁴¹You will have sons and daughters, but you won’t be able to keep them because they will be taken as prisoners of war.