41 You will have sons and daughters, but you will lose them, because they will be taken away as prisoners of war.
42 All your trees and crops will be devoured by insects.
43 “Foreigners who live in your land will gain more and more power, while you gradually lose yours.
44 They will have money to lend you, but you will have none to lend them. In the end they will be your rulers.
45 “All these disasters will come on you, and they will be with you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the Lord your God and keep all the laws that he gave you.
46 They will be the evidence of God's judgement on you and your descendants for ever.
47 The Lord blessed you in every way, but you would not serve him with glad and joyful hearts.