Deuteronomy 28:36-57

New International Version

³⁶ The Lord will drive you and the king^(A) you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your ancestors.^(B) There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone.^{(C) 37} You will become a thing of horror,^(D) a byword^(E) and an object of ridicule^(F) among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.^(G)

³⁸ You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little,^(H) because locusts^(I) will devour^(J) it. ³⁹ You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine^(K) or gather the grapes, because worms will eat^(L) them.^{(M) 40} You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off.^{(N) 41} You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity.^{(O) 42} Swarms of locusts^(P) 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.^{(Q) 44} They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them.^(R) They will be the head, but you will be the tail.^(S)

⁴⁵ All these curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake you^(T) until you are destroyed,^(U) because you did not obey the Lord your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you. ⁴⁶ They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever.^{(V) 47} Because you did not serve^(W) the Lord your God joyfully and gladly^(X) in the time of prosperity, ⁴⁸ therefore in hunger and thirst,^(Y) in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke^(Z) on your neck^(AA) until he has destroyed you.

⁴⁹ The Lord will bring a nation against you^(AB) from far away, from the ends of the earth,^(AC) like an eagle^(AD) swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand,^{(AE) 50} a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old^(AF) or pity for the young. ⁵¹ They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine^(AG) or olive oil,^(AH) nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined.^{(AI) 52} They will lay siege^(AJ) to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the Lord your God is giving you.^(AK)

⁵³ Because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you.^{(AL) 54} Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children, ⁵⁵ and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities.^{(AM) 56} The most gentle and sensitive^(AN) woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter^{(AO) 57} the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For in her dire need she intends to eat them^(AP) secretly because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of your cities.