39 You might plant lots of vineyards and work hard in them, but you won’t drink any wine or harvest the grapes because worms will devour them.
40 You might have many olive trees throughout your territories, but you won’t cover yourself with their oil because your olive trees will fail.
41 You might have sons and daughters, but they won’t be yours for long because they will be taken away as prisoners.
42 Crickets will take over all your trees and your soil’s produce.
43 The immigrants who live among you will be promoted over you, higher and higher! But you will be demoted, lower and lower!
44 They will lend to you, but you will have nothing to lend to them. They will be the head of things; you will be the tail.
45 That’s how all these curses will come over you, pursuing you, reaching you until you are completely wiped out, because you didn’t obey the Lord your God’s voice by keeping his commandments and his regulations that he gave you.