gin to use it.
Your bull slaughtered there before your eyes – but you will not eat any of it. Your
ass taken in robbery from before your face – but it will not return to you. Your sheep
given to your enemies – but you will have no savior.
Your sons and your daughter given to another people and your eyes looking on
and yearning for them always – but your hands will be without power.
The fruitage of your ground and all your production a people will eat whom you
have not known; and you must become one who is only defrauded and crushed always.
And you will certainly become maddened at the slight of your eyes that you will
see.
The Lord will strike you with malignant boil upon both knees and both legs, from
which you will not be able to be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your
head.
The Lord will march you and your king whom you will set up over you to a nation
whom you have not known, neither you nor your forefathers; and there you will have to
serve other gods, of wood and stone.
And you must become an object of astonishment, a proverbial saying and taunt
among all the peoples to whom the Lord will lead you away.
A lot of seed you will take out to the field, but little will you gather, because the
locust will devour it.
Vineyards you will plant and certainly cultivate, but you will drink no wine and
gather nothing in, because the worm will eat it up.
You will come to have olive trees in all your territory, but you will rub yourself
with no oil, because your olives will drop off.
Sons and daughters you will bring forth, but they will not continue yours, because
they will go off into captivity.
All your trees and the fruitage of your ground whirring insects will take in posses-
sion.
The alien resident who is in your midst will keep ascending higher and higher
above you, while you – you will keep descending lower and lower.
He will be the one to lend to you, while you – you will not lend to him. He will be-
come the head, while you – you will become the tail.
And all these maledictions will certainly come upon you and pursue you and
overtake you until you have been annihilated, because you did not listen to the voice of
the Lord your God by keeping his commandments and his statutes that he commanded
you.
And they must continue on you and your offspring as a sign and a portent to time
indefinite, due to the fact that you did not serve the Lord your God with rejoicing and joy
of heart for the abundance of everything.
And you will have to serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you
with hunger and thirst and nakedness and the want of everything; and he will certainly
put an iron yoke upon your neck until he has annihilated you.
The Lord will raise up against you a nation far away, from the end of the earth,
just as an eagle pounces, a nation whose tongue you will not understand, a nation fierce
in countenance, who will not be partial to an old man or sow favor to a young man.
And they will certainly eat the fruit of your domestic animals and the fruitage of
your ground until you have been annihilated, and they will let no grain, new wine or oil,
no young of your cattle or progeny of your flock, remain for you until they have destroyed
you.
And they will indeed besiege you within all your gates until your high and forti-
fied walls in which you are trusting fall in all your land, yes, they will certainly besiege
you within all your gates in all your land, which the Lord your God has given you.
Then you will have to eat the fruit of your belly, the flesh of your sons and your
daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, because of the tightness and stress
with which your enemy will hem you in.
As for the very delicate and dainty man among you, his eye will be evil-inclined
toward his brother and his cherished wife and the remainder of his sons whom he has re-
maining,
so as not to give one of them any of the flesh of his sons that he will eat, because
he has nothing at all remaining to him because of the tightness and stress with which
your enemy will hem you in within all your gates.
As for the delicate and dainty woman among you who never attempted to set the
sole of her foot upon the earth for being of dainty habit and for delicateness, her eye will
be evil-inclined toward her cherished husband and her son and her daughter,
even toward her afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and toward her
sons whom she proceeded to bear, because she will eat them in secrecy for the want of ev-
erything because of the tightness and stress with which your enemy will hem you in
within your gates.
If you will not take care to carry out all the words of this law that are written in
this book so as to fear this glorious and fear-inspiring Name, even the Lord your God,
the Lord also will certainly make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring
especially severe, great and long-lasting plagues, and malignant and long-lasting sick-
nesses.
And he will indeed bring back upon you all the diseases of Egypt before which
you got scared, and they will certainly hang onto you.
Also, any sickness and any plague that is not written in the book of this law, the
Lord will bring them upon you until you have been annihilated.
And you will indeed be left with very few number, although you have become like
the stars of the heavens for multitude, because you did not listen to the voice of the Lord
your God.
And it must occur that just as the Lord exulted over you to do you good and to
multiply you, so the Lord will exult over you to destroy you and to annihilate you;
and you will simply be torn away from off the soil to which you are going to take
possession of it.