¹⁸ "They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth: They don't turn into the way of the vineyards.

¹⁶ Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.

¹⁷ Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough.

¹⁸ 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 Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

²⁰ 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.

²⁶ They have passed away as the swift ships, As the eagle that swoops on the prey.

¹⁶ Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

⁷ Let them vanish as water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

²² Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.

¹⁸ Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

¹⁹ How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

²⁰ As a dream when one wakes up, So, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

³³ Yahweh's curse is in the house of the wicked, But he blesses the habitation of the righteous.

¹⁰ Pass through your land as the Nile, daughter of Tarshish; there is no restraint any more.

² If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name," says Yahweh of Hosts, "then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.