Deuteronomy 28:25–41

²⁵“^aYahweh shall cause you to be ¹defeated before your enemies; you will go out one way against them, but you will flee seven ways before them, and you will ^bbecome an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

²⁶“^aAnd your carcasses will be food to all birds of the sky and to the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

²⁷“^aYahweh will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with ^btumors and with the scab and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.

²⁸“Yahweh will strike you with madness and with blindness and with bewilderment of heart;

²⁹and you will ^1agrope at noon, as the blind man gropes in darkness, and you will not succeed in your ways; but you shall only be oppressed and robbed all your days, with none to save you.

³⁰“^aYou shall betroth a wife, but another man will violate her; ^byou shall build a house, but you will not live in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but you will not ¹use its fruit.

³¹“Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat of it; your donkey shall be torn away from you and will not be returned to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you will have none to save you.

³²“^aYour sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and yearn for them all the day long; but there will be nothing ¹you can do.

³³“^aA people whom you do not know shall eat up the produce of your ground and all your labors, and you will never be anything but oppressed and crushed all your days.

³⁴“And you shall be driven mad by the sight of what your eyes see.

³⁵“^aYahweh will strike you on the knees and legs with sore boils, from which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.

³⁶“^aYahweh will lead you and your king, whom you set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods, ^bwood and stone.

³⁷“^aYou shall become an object of horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the people where Yahweh drives you.

³⁸“^aYou shall bring out much seed to the field, but you will gather in little, for ^bthe locust will consume it.

³⁹“^aYou shall plant and cultivate vineyards, but you will neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm will devour them.

⁴⁰“^aYou shall have olive trees throughout your territory, but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.

⁴¹“^aYou shall become the father of sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.