⁴⁵“And all of these curses shall come over you, and they shall pursue you, and they shall overtake you until you are destroyed,^o because you did not listen^p to the voice of Yahweh your God, by observing^q his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you. ⁴⁶And they shall be among you as a sign and as a wonder and among your offspring forever.^r

⁴⁷“Because^s of the fact that you did not serve Yahweh your God with joy and with gladness of heart for the abundance of everything, ⁴⁸then you shall serve your enemies, whom Yahweh will send against you under conditions of famine, in thirst, in nakedness, and in a lack of everything; and he shall place^t a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.^u ⁴⁹Yahweh will raise up against you a nation from far off, from the end of the earth, attacking as the eagle swoops down, a nation whose language you will not understand,^v ⁵⁰a grim-faced nation^w who does not show respect^x to the old and the young and does not show pity. ⁵¹And it^y shall consume the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground until you are destroyed,^z and who will not leave for you any grain, wine, and olive oil, calves of your herds,^a and lambs of^b your flock until it has destroyed you.^c ⁵²And it shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls fall,^d which you are trusting in^e throughout your land;^f and it shall besiege you in all of your towns in all of your land that Yahweh your God has given to you.

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Footnotes

oLiterally “until you to be destroyed”
pLiterally “not you listened”
qLiterally “to observe”
rLiterally “until eternity,” but not in a timeless, philosophic sense
sLiterally “Under”
tLiterally “give”
uLiterally “until his destroying of you”
vLiterally “a nation who not you will understand its language”
wLiterally “a nation fierce/determined of face”
xLiterally “who not lifts up faces”
yThat is, the invading nation
zLiterally “until your destroying”
aLiterally “what is dropped of your herds”
bLiterally “the offspring of small animals”
cLiterally “until his to destroy you”
dLiterally “until the coming down of your walls, high and fortified”
eHebrew “in them,” which is redundant
fLiterally “in all of your land”