¹⁷ Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

^6 (A)You have sown much, and harvested little. ^(B)You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who ^(C)earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.

⁵ Blessed shall be your basket and your ^(A)kneading bowl.

²⁵ But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that ^(A)you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.

^2 (A)If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send ^(B)the curse upon you and I will curse ^(C)your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.

³ Then he said to me, “This is ^(A)the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who ^(B)steals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who ^(C)swears falsely^[a] shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side. ⁴ I will send it out, declares the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of ^(D)him who swears falsely by my name. And ^(E)it shall remain in his house and ^(F)consume it, both timber and stones.”