“30. Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof. “31. Thine ox _shall be_ slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thy ass _shall be_ violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep _shall be_ given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue _them_. “32. Thy sons and thy daughters _shall_ be given unto another people, and thy eyes shall look, and fail _with longing_ for them all the day long: and there _shall be_ no might in thy hand. “33. The fruit of thy land and all thy labours shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up: and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed always: “34. So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thy eyes which thou shalt see. “35. The Lord shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head. “36. The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, and there shalt thou _serve_ (וְעָבַֽדְתָּ _ve abadta_, _and shall slave yourselves to_) other gods, wood and stone: “37. And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by-word, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee. “38. Thou shalt carry much seed out unto the field, and shalt gather _but_ little in: for the locust shall consume it. “39. Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress _them_, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather _the grapes_: for the worms shall eat them. “40. Thou shalt have olive-trees throughout, but thou shalt not anoint _thyself_ with the oil: for thine olive shall cast _his fruit_. “41. Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them, for they shall go _into captivity_.” (_Into captivity_ is translated from בַּשֶׁבִי _bashshebi_; the prefix preposition _in_, _into_, &c. here makes _bash_. The root is _shebi_. The translation is correct, but the idea extends to such a possession of the captive as includes the idea of a right of property. The same word is used when dumb beasts are taken as spoil in war; thus, _Amos_ iv. 10, שְׁבִי סוּסֵיבֶם _shebi susekem_, _I have taken your horses_, _i. e._ I have _captured_ your horses,—the right of property in the horses is changed. The idea in the text is, _they shall go into slavery_.) “42. All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume. “43. The stranger that _is_ within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. “44. He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.