Deuteronomy 28:45–52

⁴⁵“Moreover all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you ⁴did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you. ⁴⁶And they shall be upon ^vyou for a sign and a wonder, and on your descendants forever.

^47w“Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and gladness of heart, ^xfor the abundance of everything, ⁴⁸therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the Lord will send against you, in ^yhunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He ^zwill put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you. ^49aThe Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, ^bas swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand, ⁵⁰a nation of fierce countenance, ^cwhich does not respect the elderly nor show favor to the young. ⁵¹And they shall eat the increase of your livestock and the produce of your land, until you are destroyed; they shall not leave you grain or new wine or oil, or the increase of your cattle or the offspring of your flocks, until they have destroyed you.

⁵²“They shall ^dbesiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which the Lord your God has given you.