¹⁶ Cursed shall you be ^(A)in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. ¹⁷ Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. ¹⁸ Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.

²¹ The Lord will make ^(A)the pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it. ^22 (B)The Lord will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought^[a] and with ^(C)blight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish. ²³ And ^(D)the heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron. ²⁴ The Lord will make the rain of your land powder. From heaven dust shall come down on you until you are destroyed.

^38 (A)You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for ^(B)the locust shall consume it. ^39 (C)You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them. ⁴⁰ You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you ^(D)shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off.

^42 (A)The cricket^[a] shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground.