^{47 Ref} `Because that thou hast not served Jehovah thy God with joy, and with gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things --

^{48 Ref} thou hast served thine enemies, whom Jehovah sendeth against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in lack of all things; and he hath put a yoke of iron on thy neck, till He hath destroyed thee.

^{49 Ref} `Jehovah doth lift up against thee a nation, from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle it flieth; a nation whose tongue thou hast not heard,

^{50 Ref} a nation -- fierce of countenance -- which accepteth not the face of the aged, and the young doth not favour;

^{51 Ref} and it hath eaten the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, till thou art destroyed; which leaveth not to thee corn, new wine, and oil, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock, till it hath destroyed thee.