44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him; he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee and shall pursue thee and overtake thee until thou art destroyed because thou shalt not have attended unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee;
46 and they shall be in thee for a sign and for a wonder, and in thy seed for ever.
47 Because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
48 therefore, thou shalt serve thine enemies which the Lord shall send against thee, in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in lack of all things; and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck until he has destroyed thee.
49 The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand,
50 a nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old nor show favour to the young;