Deuteronomy 28:62-64

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⁶² Although once you were as numerous as the stars in heaven, you shall be left few in number because you did not obey the Lord your God.^{(A) 63} And just as the Lord took delight in making you prosperous and numerous, so the Lord will take delight in bringing you to ruin and destruction; you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to possess.^{(B) 64} The Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.^(C)