^{1 Ref} And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that Jehovah thy God will set thee on high above all the nations of the earth:

^{2 Ref} and all these blessings shall come upon thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God.

^{3 Ref} Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.

^{4 Ref} Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy beasts, the increase of thy cattle, and the young of thy flock.

⁵ Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.

^{6 Ref} Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

^{7 Ref} Jehovah will cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thee: they shall come out against thee one way, and shall flee before thee seven ways.

^{8 Ref} Jehovah will command the blessing upon thee in thy barns, and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto; and he will bless thee in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

^{9 Ref} Jehovah will establish thee for a holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee; if thou shalt keep the commandments of Jehovah thy God, and walk in his ways.

^{10 Ref} And all the peoples of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of Jehovah; and they shall be afraid of thee.

^{11 Ref} And Jehovah will make thee plenteous for good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

^{12 Ref} Jehovah will open unto thee his good treasure the heavens, to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.

^{13 Ref} And Jehovah will make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if thou shalt hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do `them',

^{14 Ref} and shalt not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

^{15 Ref} But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day, that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.

^{16 Ref} Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.

^{17 Ref} Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.

^{18 Ref} Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, the increase of thy cattle, and the young of thy flock.

^{19 Ref} Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

^{20 Ref} Jehovah will send upon thee cursing, discomfiture, and rebuke, in all that thou puttest thy hand unto to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the evil of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.

^{21 Ref} Jehovah will make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest in to possess it.

^{22 Ref} Jehovah will smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.

^{23 Ref} And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.

^{24 Ref} Jehovah will make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

^{25 Ref} Jehovah will cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies; thou shalt go out one way against them, and shalt flee seven ways before them: and thou shalt be tossed to and from among all the kingdoms of the earth.

^{26 Ref} And thy dead body shall be food unto all birds of the heavens, and unto the beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away.

^{27 Ref} Jehovah will smite thee with the boil of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scurvy, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.

^{28 Ref} Jehovah will smite thee with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart;

^{29 Ref} and thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and robbed alway, and there shall be none to save thee.

^{30 Ref} Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not use the fruit thereof.

^{31 Ref} Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to save thee.

^{32 Ref} Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people; and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there shall be nought in the power of thy hand.

^{33 Ref} The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labors, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway;

^{34 Ref} so that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

^{35 Ref} Jehovah will smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, whereof thou canst not be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the crown of thy head.

^{36 Ref} Jehovah will bring thee, and thy king whom thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation that thou hast not known, thou nor thy fathers; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.

^{37 Ref} And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples whither Jehovah shall lead thee away.

^{38 Ref} Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

^{39 Ref} Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress them, but thou shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather `the grapes'; for the worm shall eat them.

^{40 Ref} Thou shalt have olive-trees throughout all thy borders, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast `its fruit'.

^{41 Ref} Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be thine; for they shall go into captivity.

^{42 Ref} All thy trees and the fruit of thy ground shall the locust possess.

^{43 Ref} The sojourner that is in the midst of thee shall mount up above thee higher and higher; and thou shalt come down lower and lower.

^{44 Ref} He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.

^{45 Ref} And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:

^{46 Ref} and they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.

^{47 Ref} Because thou servedst not Jehovah thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;

^{48 Ref} therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies that Jehovah shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

^{49 Ref} Jehovah will bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;

^{50 Ref} a nation of fierce countenance, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young,

^{51 Ref} and shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, until thou be destroyed; that also shall not leave thee grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of thy cattle, or the young of thy flock, until they have caused thee to perish.

^{52 Ref} And they shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fortified walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land; and they shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.

^{53 Ref} And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, whom Jehovah thy God hath given thee, in the siege and in the distress wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee.

^{54 Ref} The man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he hath remaining;

^{55 Ref} so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he hath nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in all thy gates.

^{56 Ref} The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

^{57 Ref} and toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.

^{58 Ref} If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, JEHOVAH THY GOD;

^{59 Ref} then Jehovah will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.

^{60 Ref} And he will bring upon thee again all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.

^{61 Ref} Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will Jehovah bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

^{62 Ref} And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God.

^{63 Ref} And it shall come to pass, that, as Jehovah rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Jehovah will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest in to possess it.

^{64 Ref} And Jehovah will scatter thee among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou nor thy fathers, even wood and stone.

^{65 Ref} And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of thy foot: but Jehovah will give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul;

^{66 Ref} and thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear night and day, and shalt have no assurance of thy life.

^{67 Ref} In the morning thou shalt say, Would it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would it were morning! for the fear of thy heart which thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

^{68 Ref} And Jehovah will bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I said unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall sell yourselves unto your enemies for bondmen and for bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

^{1 Ref} It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, who Yahweh your God will set you on high above all the nations of the earth:

^{2 Ref} and all these blessings shall come on you, and overtake you, if you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.

^{3 Ref} Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.

^{4 Ref} Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your animals, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.

⁵ Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough.

^{6 Ref} Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.

^{7 Ref} Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before you: they shall come out against you one way, and shall flee before you seven ways.

^{8 Ref} Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to; and he will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

^{9 Ref} Yahweh will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you; if you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and walk in his ways.

^{10 Ref} All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of Yahweh; and they shall be afraid of you.

^{11 Ref} Yahweh will make you plenteous for good, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.

^{12 Ref} Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend to many nations, and you shall not borrow.

^{13 Ref} Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath; if you shall listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you this day, to observe and to do [them],

^{14 Ref} and shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

^{15 Ref} But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall come on you, and overtake you.

^{16 Ref} Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.

^{17 Ref} Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough.

^{18 Ref} Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.

^{19 Ref} Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

^{20 Ref} Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.

^{21 Ref} Yahweh will make the pestilence cleave to you, until he have consumed you from off the land, where you go in to possess it.

^{22 Ref} Yahweh will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.

^{23 Ref} Your sky that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under you shall be iron.

^{24 Ref} Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from the sky shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed.

^{25 Ref} Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

^{26 Ref} Your dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away.

^{27 Ref} Yahweh will strike you with the boil of Egypt, and with the tumors, and with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.

^{28 Ref} Yahweh will strike you with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart;

^{29 Ref} and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none to save you.

^{30 Ref} You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use the fruit of it.

^{31 Ref} Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have none to save you.

^{32 Ref} Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people; and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there shall be nothing in the power of your hand.

^{33 Ref} The fruit of your ground, and all your labors, shall a nation which you don't know eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always;

^{34 Ref} so that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.

^{35 Ref} Yahweh will strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

^{36 Ref} Yahweh will bring you, and your king whom you shall set over you, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers; and there shall you serve other gods, wood and stone.

^{37 Ref} You shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where Yahweh shall lead you away.

^{38 Ref} You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

^{39 Ref} You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather [the grapes]; for the worm shall eat them.

^{40 Ref} You shall have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olive shall cast [its fruit].

^{41 Ref} You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.

^{42 Ref} All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust possess.

^{43 Ref} The foreigner who is in the midst of you shall mount up above you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower.

^{44 Ref} He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him: he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

^{45 Ref} All these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you:

^{46 Ref} and they shall be on you for a sign and for a wonder, and on your seed forever.

^{47 Ref} Because you didn't serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;

^{48 Ref} therefore shall you serve your enemies whom Yahweh shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he have destroyed you.

^{49 Ref} Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you shall not understand;

^{50 Ref} a nation of fierce facial expressions, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young,

^{51 Ref} and shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your cattle, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.

^{52 Ref} They shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which Yahweh your God has given you.

^{53 Ref} You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.

^{54 Ref} The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining;

^{55 Ref} so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates.

^{56 Ref} The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

^{57 Ref} and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.

^{58 Ref} If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, YAHWEH YOUR GOD;

^{59 Ref} then Yahweh will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues of your seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.

^{60 Ref} He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they shall cleave to you.

^{61 Ref} Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will Yahweh bring on you, until you are destroyed.

^{62 Ref} You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of the sky for multitude; because you didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.

^{63 Ref} It shall happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall be plucked from off the land where you go in to possess it.

^{64 Ref} Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.

^{65 Ref} Among these nations shall you find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of your foot: but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul;

^{66 Ref} and your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life.

^{67 Ref} In the morning you shall say, Would it were even! and at even you shall say, Would it were morning! for the fear of your heart which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.

^{68 Ref} Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I said to you, You shall see it no more again: and there you shall sell yourselves to your enemies for bondservants and for bondmaids, and no man shall buy you.

^{1 Ref} Now if you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep with care all these orders which I have given you today, then the Lord your God will put you high over all the nations of the earth:

^{2 Ref} And all these blessings will come on you and overtake you, if your ears are open to the voice of the Lord your God.

^{3 Ref} A blessing will be on you in the town, and a blessing in the field.

^{4 Ref} A blessing will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herd, and the young of your flock.

⁵ A blessing will be on your basket and on your bread-basin.

^{6 Ref} A blessing will be on your coming in and on your going out.

^{7 Ref} By the power of the Lord, those who take arms against you will be overcome before you: they will come out against you one way, and will go in flight from you seven ways.

^{8 Ref} The Lord will send his blessing on your store-houses and on everything to which you put your hand: his blessing will be on you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

^{9 Ref} The Lord will keep you as a people holy to himself, as he has said to you in his oath, if you keep the orders of the Lord your God and go on walking in his ways.

^{10 Ref} And all the peoples of the earth will see that the name of the Lord is on you, and they will go in fear of you.

^{11 Ref} And the Lord will make you fertile in every good thing, in the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your fields, in the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, said he would give you.

^{12 Ref} Opening his store-house in heaven, the Lord will send rain on your land at the right time, blessing all the work of your hands: other nations will make use of your wealth, and you will have no need of theirs.

^{13 Ref} The Lord will make you the head and not the tail; and you will ever have the highest place, if you give ear to the orders of the Lord your God which I give you today, to keep and to do them;

^{14 Ref} Not turning away from any of the orders which I give you today, to the right hand or to the left, or going after any other gods to give them worship.

^{15 Ref} But if you do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to do all his orders and his laws which I give you today, then all these curses will come on you and overtake you:

^{16 Ref} You will be cursed in the town and cursed in the field.

^{17 Ref} A curse will be on your basket and on your bread-basin.

^{18 Ref} A curse will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.

^{19 Ref} You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

^{20 Ref} The Lord will send on you cursing and trouble and punishment in everything to which you put your hand, till sudden destruction overtakes you; because of your evil ways in which you have been false to me.

^{21 Ref} The Lord will send disease after disease on you, till you have been cut off by death from the land to which you are going.

^{22 Ref} The Lord will send wasting disease, and burning pain, and flaming heat against you, keeping back the rain till your land is waste and dead; so will it be till your destruction is complete.

^{23 Ref} And the heaven over your heads will be brass, and the earth under you hard as iron.

^{24 Ref} The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust, sending it down on you from heaven till your destruction is complete.

^{25 Ref} The Lord will let you be overcome by your haters: you will go out against them one way, and you will go in flight before them seven ways: you will be the cause of fear among all the kingdoms of the earth.

^{26 Ref} Your bodies will be meat for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth; there will be no one to send them away.

^{27 Ref} The Lord will send on you the disease of Egypt, and other sorts of skin diseases which nothing will make well.

^{28 Ref} He will make your minds diseased, and your eyes blind, and your hearts wasted with fear:

^{29 Ref} You will go feeling your way when the sun is high, like a blind man for whom all is dark, and nothing will go well for you: you will be crushed and made poor for ever, and you will have no saviour.

^{30 Ref} You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.

^{31 Ref} Your ox will be put to death before your eyes, but its flesh will not be your food: your ass will be violently taken away before your face, and will not be given back to you: your sheep will be given to your haters, and there will be no saviour for you.

^{32 Ref} Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and your eyes will be wasted away with looking and weeping for them all the day: and you will have no power to do anything.

^{33 Ref} The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation which is strange to you and to your fathers; you will only be crushed down and kept under for ever:

^{34 Ref} So that the things which your eyes have to see will send you out of your minds.

^{35 Ref} The Lord will send a skin disease, attacking your knees and your legs, bursting out from your feet to the top of your head, so that nothing will make you well.

^{36 Ref} And you, and the king whom you have put over you, will the Lord take away to a nation strange to you and to your fathers; there you will be servants to other gods of wood and stone.

^{37 Ref} And you will become a wonder and a name of shame among all the nations where the Lord will take you.

^{38 Ref} You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.

^{39 Ref} You will put in vines and take care of them, but you will get no wine or grapes from them; for they will be food for worms.

^{40 Ref} Your land will be full of olive-trees, but there will be no oil for the comfort of your body; for your olive-tree will give no fruit.

^{41 Ref} You will have sons and daughters, but they will not be yours; for they will go away prisoners into a strange land.

^{42 Ref} All your trees and the fruit of your land will be the locust's.

^{43 Ref} The man from a strange land who is living among you will be lifted up higher and higher over you, while you go down lower and lower.

^{44 Ref} He will let you have his wealth at interest, and will have no need of yours: he will be the head and you the tail.

^{45 Ref} And all these curses will come after you and overtake you, till your destruction is complete; because you did not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, or keep his laws and his orders which he gave you:

^{46 Ref} These things will come on you and on your seed, to be a sign and a wonder for ever;

^{47 Ref} Because you did not give honour to the Lord your God, worshipping him gladly, with joy in your hearts on account of all your wealth of good things;

^{48 Ref} For this cause you will become servants to those whom the Lord your God will send against you, without food and drink and clothing, and in need of all things: and he will put a yoke of iron on your neck till he has put an end to you.

^{49 Ref} The Lord will send a nation against you from the farthest ends of the earth, coming with the flight of an eagle; a nation whose language is strange to you;

^{50 Ref} A hard-faced nation, who will have no respect for the old or mercy for the young:

^{51 Ref} He will take the fruit of your cattle and of your land till death puts an end to you: he will let you have nothing of your grain or wine or oil or any of the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, till he has made your destruction complete.

^{52 Ref} Your towns will be shut in by his armies, till your high walls, in which you put your faith, have come down: his armies will be round your towns, through all your land which the Lord your God has given you.

^{53 Ref} And your food will be the fruit of your body, the flesh of the sons and daughters which the Lord your God has given you; because of your bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters.

^{54 Ref} That man among you who is soft and used to comfort will be hard and cruel to his brother, and to his dear wife, and to of those his children who are still living;

^{55 Ref} And will not give to any of them the flesh of his children which will be his food because he has no other; in the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.

^{56 Ref} The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to her son and to her daughter;

^{57 Ref} And to her baby newly come to birth, and to the children of her body; for having no other food, she will make a meal of them secretly, because of her bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.

^{58 Ref} If you will not take care to do all the words of this law, recorded in this book, honouring that name of glory and of fear, THE LORD YOUR GOD;

^{59 Ref} Then the Lord your God will make your punishment, and the punishment of your seed, a thing to be wondered at; great punishments and cruel diseases stretching on through long years.

^{60 Ref} He will send on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which were a cause of fear to you, and they will take you in their grip.

^{61 Ref} And all the diseases and the pains not recorded in the book of this law will the Lord send on you till your destruction is complete.

^{62 Ref} And you will become a very small band, though your numbers were like the stars of heaven; because you did not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God.

^{63 Ref} And as the Lord took delight in doing you good and increasing you, so the Lord will take pleasure in cutting you off and causing your destruction, and you will be uprooted from the land which you are about to take as your heritage.

^{64 Ref} And the Lord will send you wandering among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other: there you will be servants to other gods, of wood and stone, gods of which you and your fathers had no knowledge.

^{65 Ref} And even among these nations there will be no peace for you, and no rest for your feet: but the Lord will give you there a shaking heart and wasting eyes and weariness of soul:

^{66 Ref} Your very life will be hanging in doubt before you, and day and night will be dark with fears, and nothing in life will be certain:

^{67 Ref} In the morning you will say, If only it was evening! And at evening you will say, If only morning would come! Because of the fear in your hearts and the things which your eyes will see.

^{68 Ref} And the Lord will take you back to Egypt again in ships, by the way of which I said to you, You will never see it again: there you will be offering yourselves as men-servants and women-servants to your haters for a price, and no man will take you.