³⁰ You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her.^(A) You will build a house, but you will not live in it.^(B) You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit.^{(C) 31} Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them. ³² Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation,^(D) and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand. ³³ A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression^(E) all your days.^(F)

³⁹ You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine^(A) or gather the grapes, because worms will eat^(B) them.^{(C) 40} You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off.^{(D) 41} You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity.^{(E) 42} Swarms of locusts^(F) will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.

⁴³ The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.^(G)