Deuteronomy 28:45-49

English Standard Version

^45 (A)“All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you. ⁴⁶ They shall be ^(B)a sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever. ^47 (C)Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, ⁴⁸ therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he ^(D)will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you. ^49 (E)The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, ^(F)swooping down like the eagle, a nation ^(G)whose language you do not understand,