38 Though you take out seed to your field, you will harvest but little, for the locusts will devour it.
39 Though you plant and cultivate vineyards, you will not drink or store up the wine, for the worms will eat them.
40 Though you have olive trees throughout your country, you will have no oil for ointment, for your olives will drop off.
41 Though you beget sons and daughters, they will not remain with you, for they will go into captivity.
42 Buzzing insects will take possession of all your trees and the crops of your soil.
43 The resident aliens among you will rise above you higher and higher, while you sink lower and lower.
44 They will lend to you, not you to them. They will become the head, you the tail.