41 You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.
42 All your trees and the fruit of your ground the locust shall possess.
43 The sojourner who is among you shall mount above you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower.
44 He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
45 All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you, till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of YHVH, your god, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you.
46 They shall be upon you as a sign and a wonder, and upon your descendants for ever.
47 "Because you did not serve YHVH, your god, with joyfulness and gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things,
48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom YHVH will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and in want of all things; and he will put a yoke of iron upon your neck, until he has destroyed you.
49 YHVH will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you do not understand,
50 a nation of stern countenance, who shall not regard the person of the old or show favor to the young,
51 and shall eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; who also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
52 They shall besiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which YHVH, your god, has given you.
53 And you shall eat the offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom YHVH, your god, has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.
54 The man who is the most tender and delicately bred among you will grudge food to his brother, to the wife of his bosom, and to the last of the children who remain to him;
55 so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns.
56 The most tender and delicately bred woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will grudge to the husband of her bosom, to her son and to her daughter,
57 her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because she will eat them secretly, for want of all things, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.
58 "If you are not careful to do all the words of this law which are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awful name, YHVH, your god,
59 then YHVH will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting.
60 And he will bring upon you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they shall cleave to you.