⁴⁵All these curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake youⁱ until you are destroyed,^j because you did not obey the Lord your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you. ⁴⁶They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever.^k ⁴⁷Because you did not serve^l the Lord your God joyfully and gladly^m in the time of prosperity, ⁴⁸therefore in hunger and thirst,ⁿ in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke^o on your neck^p until he has destroyed you.

⁴⁹The Lord will bring a nation against you^q from far away, from the ends of the earth,^r like an eagle^s swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand,^t ⁵⁰a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old^u or pity for the young. ⁵¹They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine^v or olive oil,^w nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined.^x ⁵²They will lay siege^y to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the Lord your God is giving you.^z

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Cross references

iSee Ex 15:9
jver 15; Dt 4:25–26
kSee Nu 16:38; Ps 71:7; Isa 8:18; 20:3; Eze 5:15; Zec 3:8
lSee Dt 10:12
mSee Lev 23:40; Ne 9:35
n Jer 14:3; La 4:4
o Jer 28:13–14; La 1:14
p Ge 49:8
qSee Lev 26:44
r Isa 5:26–30, 26; 7:18–20; 39:3; Jer 4:16; 5:15; 6:22; 25:32; 31:8; Hab 1:6
s 2 Sa 1:23; Jer 4:13; 48:40; 49:22; La 4:19; Eze 17:3
tSee Ge 11:7; 1 Co 14:21*
u Isa 47:6
v Ps 4:7; Isa 36:17; Hag 1:11
wSee Nu 18:12
xver 33; Jdg 6:4
y 2 Ki 6:24
z Jer 10:18; Eze 6:10; Zep 1:14–16, 17