²⁵ “But Abraham replied, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things,^(A) but now he is comforted here and you are in agony.^(B)

² If you do not listen,^(A) and if you do not resolve to honor^(B) my name,” says the Lord Almighty, “I will send a curse^(C) on you, and I will curse your blessings.^(D) Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not resolved to honor me.

³ And he said to me, “This is the curse^(A) that is going out over the whole land; for according to what it says on one side, every thief^(B) will be banished, and according to what it says on the other, everyone who swears falsely^(C) will be banished. ⁴ The Lord Almighty declares, ‘I will send it out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely^(D) by my name. It will remain in that house and destroy it completely, both its timbers and its stones.^(E)’”

⁶ You have planted much, but harvested little.^(A) You eat, but never have enough.^(B) You drink, but never have your fill.^(C) You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages,^(D) only to put them in a purse with holes in it.”