Deuteronomy 28:25–41

^25a“The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them; and you shall become ⁸troublesome to all the kingdoms of the earth. ^26bYour carcasses shall be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and no one shall frighten them away. ²⁷The Lord will strike you with ^cthe boils of Egypt, with ^dtumors, with the scab, and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed. ²⁸The Lord will strike you with madness and blindness and ^econfusion of heart. ²⁹And you shall ^fgrope at noonday, as a blind man gropes in darkness; you shall not prosper in your ways; you shall be only oppressed and plundered continually, and no one shall save you.

^30g“You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall lie with her; ^hyou shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it; ⁱyou shall plant a vineyard, but shall not gather its grapes. ³¹Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat of it; your donkey shall be violently taken away from before you, and shall not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have no one to rescue them. ³²Your sons and your daughters shall be given to ^janother people, and your eyes shall look and ^kfail with longing for them all day long; and there shall be ⁹no strength in your ^lhand. ³³A nation whom you have not known shall eat ^mthe fruit of your land and the produce of your labor, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually. ³⁴So you shall be driven mad because of the sight which your eyes see. ³⁵The Lord will strike you in the knees and on the legs with severe boils which cannot be healed, and from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.

³⁶“The Lord will ⁿbring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and ^othere you shall serve other gods—wood and stone. ³⁷And you shall become ^pan ¹astonishment, a proverb, ^qand a byword among all nations where the Lord will drive you.

^38r“You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather little in, for ^sthe locust shall ²consume it. ³⁹You shall plant vineyards and tend them, but you shall neither drink of the ^twine nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. ⁴⁰You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off. ⁴¹You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for ^uthey shall go into captivity.