and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not do all My commandments, but break My covenant,

I will set My face against you, and you shall be smitten by your enemies. Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you.

Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.

Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, the offspring of your cattle and the increase of your flocks.

Jehovah will send upon you cursing, turmoil, and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your doings in which you have forsaken Me.

Jehovah will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with burning fever, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish.

Jehovah will make the rain of your land into dust and powder; from the heavens it shall come down upon you until you are destroyed.

Your carcasses shall be food for all the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth, and no one shall frighten them away.

Jehovah will strike you with madness and blindness and bewilderment of heart.

You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall lie with her; you shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but shall not begin to eat.

Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, and your eyes shall look and fail with longing for them all day long; and there shall be no might in your hand.

Thus you shall be driven mad because of the sight which your eyes see.

Jehovah will bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods; wood and stone.

You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather little in, for the locust shall consume it.

You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off.

Locusts shall dispossess all your trees and the produce of your land.

He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

And they shall be upon you for a sign and a wonder, and upon your seed perpetually.

therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom Jehovah will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He will put a yoke of iron upon your neck until He has destroyed you.

a nation of fierce countenance, which does not regard the face of the old nor show favor to the young.

They shall besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which Jehovah your God has given to you.

The eye of the man who is tender and very delicate shall quiver with hostility toward his brother, toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the rest of his children whom he leaves behind,

The eye of the tender and dainty woman among you, who would not have ventured to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and tenderness, will quiver with hostility toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son and her daughter,

If you do not take heed to do all the Words of this Law that are written in this book, to fear this glorious and awesome name, JEHOVAH GOD,

Moreover He will bring back upon you all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cleave to you.

You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven in multitude, because you would not obey the voice of Jehovah your God.

And Jehovah will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known; wood and stone.

Your life shall hang in doubt before you; you shall fear day and night, and have no assurance of life.

And Jehovah will take you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I had said to you, You shall never see it again. And there you shall have been sold to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.

I have declared to you today that you shall be exterminated to perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land which you are crossing over the Jordan to go in and possess.

Was the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed to this day, and there was a plague in the congregation of Jehovah,

then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out from before My face, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

Then they will answer, Because they have forsaken Jehovah the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and taken hold on other gods, and bowed down to them and served them; therefore He has brought all this evil upon them.

But your little ones, whom you said would be prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.

And your sons shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and bear your harlotry, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness.

I Jehovah have spoken: I will surely do so to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.