Deuteronomy 28:39   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.

Deuteronomy 28:40   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off.

Deuteronomy 28:41   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity.

Deuteronomy 28:42   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

Swarms of locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.

Deuteronomy 28:43   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.

Deuteronomy 28:44   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, but you will be the tail.

Deuteronomy 28:45   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

All these curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the Lord your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you.

Deuteronomy 28:46   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever.

Deuteronomy 28:47   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity,

Deuteronomy 28:48   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

Deuteronomy 28:49   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand,

Deuteronomy 28:50   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young.

Deuteronomy 28:51   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine or olive oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined.

Deuteronomy 28:52   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the Lord your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 28:53   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

Because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you.

Deuteronomy 28:54   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children,

Deuteronomy 28:55   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities.

Deuteronomy 28:56   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

The most gentle and sensitive woman among you-so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot-will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter

Deuteronomy 28:57   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For in her dire need she intends to eat them secretly because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of your cities.

Deuteronomy 28:58   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name-the Lord your God-

Deuteronomy 28:59   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

the Lord will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses.

Deuteronomy 28:60   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

He will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will cling to you.

Deuteronomy 28:61   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

The Lord will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.

Deuteronomy 28:62   (Read all of Deuteronomy 28)

You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God.