37 In the countries where the Lord will send you, the people will be shocked at the terrible things that happen to you. They will laugh at you and say bad things about you.
38 “Your fields will produce plenty of grain. But your harvest will be small, because the locusts will eat your harvest.
39 You will plant vineyards and work hard in them. But you will not gather the grapes or drink the wine from them, because the worms will eat them.
40 You will have olive trees everywhere on your land. But you will not have any of the oil to use, because the olives will drop to the ground and rot.
41 You will have sons and daughters. But you will not be able to keep them, because they will be captured and taken away.
42 Locusts will destroy all your trees and the crops in your fields.
43 The foreigners living among you will get more and more power, and you will lose the power you had.