^{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.