Deuteronomy 28:27–44

27 The Lord will strike you with cthe boils of Egypt, with dtumors, with the scab, and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed. 28 The Lord will strike you with madness and blindness and econfusion of heart. 29 And 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.

30 g“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. 31 Your 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. 32 Your 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. 33 A 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. 34 So you shall be driven mad because of the sight which your eyes see. 35 The 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. 37 And you shall become pan 1astonishment, a proverb, qand a byword among all nations where the Lord will drive you.

38 r“You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather little in, for sthe locust shall 2consume it. 39 You shall plant vineyards and tend them, but you shall neither drink of the twine nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. 40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off. 41 You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for uthey shall go into captivity. 42 Locusts shall 3consume all your trees and the produce of your land.

43 “The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. 44 He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.