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.
44 The foreigners will have money to loan you, but you will not have any money to loan them. They will control you the way the head controls the body. You will be like the tail.
45 “All these curses will come on you. They will keep chasing you and catching you, until you are destroyed, because you did not listen to what the Lord your God told you. You did not obey the commands and laws that he gave you.
46 These curses will show people that God judged you and your descendants forever. People will be amazed at the terrible things that happen to you.
47 “The Lord your God gave you many blessings. But you did not serve him with joy and a glad heart.