Deuteronomy 28:45–52

⁴⁵“So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you ^auntil you are destroyed, because you would not ¹obey the Lord your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.

⁴⁶“They shall become ^aa sign and a wonder on you and your ¹descendants forever.

⁴⁷“^aBecause you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and a glad heart, for the abundance of all things;

⁴⁸therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, ^ain hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and He ^bwill put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

⁴⁹“^aThe Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, ^bas the eagle swoops down, a nation whose language you shall not understand,

⁵⁰a nation of fierce countenance who will ^ahave no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young.

⁵¹“Moreover, it shall eat the ¹offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who also leaves you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the increase of your herd or the young of your flock until they have caused you to perish.

⁵²“^aIt shall besiege you in all your ¹towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land, and it shall besiege you in all your towns throughout your land which the Lord your God has given you.