Deuteronomy 28:45–52

⁴⁵Moreover ^gall these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee: ⁴⁶And they shall be upon thee ^hfor a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever. ⁴⁷Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with ⁱgladness of heart, ^kfor the abundance of all things; ⁴⁸Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the Lord shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he ^lshall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee. ^49mThe Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, ⁿas swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not ^†understand; ⁵⁰A nation ^†of fierce countenance, ^owhich shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young: ⁵¹And he shall ^peat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee. ⁵²And he shall ^qbesiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the Lord thy God hath given thee.