to waste and be made an example and a jesting stock unto all nations
whither the LORD shall carry thee. Thou shalt carry much seed out into
the field, and shalt gather but little in: for the locusts
{grasshoppers} shall destroy it. Thou shalt plant a vineyard and dress
it, but shalt neither drink of the wine neither gather of the grapes,
for the worms shall eat it. Thou shalt have olive trees in all thy
coasts, but shalt not be anointed with the oil, for thine olive trees
shall be rooted out. Thou shalt get sons and daughters, but shalt not
have them: for they shall be carried away captive. All thy trees and
fruit of thy land shall be marred with blasting. The strangers that are
among you shall climb above thee up on high, {an hye} and thou shalt
come down beneath alow. He shall lend thee and thou shalt not lend him,
he shall be before and thou behind. Moreover all these curses shall
come upon thee and shall follow thee and overtake thee, till thou be
destroyed: because thou hearkenedest not unto the voice of the LORD thy
God, to keep his commandments and ordinances which he commanded thee,
and they shall be upon thee as miracles and wonders and upon thy seed
for ever. And because thou servedest not the LORD thy God with
joyfulness and with a good heart for the abundance of all things,
therefore thou shalt serve thine enemy which the LORD shall send upon
thee: in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and in need of all things: and
he shall put a yoke of iron upon thine neck, until he have brought thee
to nought. And the LORD shall bring a nation upon thee from afar, even
from the end of the world, as swift as an eagle fleeth: {flyeth} a
nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand: a hard favoured nation
which shall not regard the person of the old nor have compassion on the
young. And he shall eat the fruit of thy land and the fruit of thy
cattle until he have destroyed thee: so that he shall leave thee
neither corn, wine, nor oil, neither the increase of thine oxen nor the
flocks of thy sheep: until he have brought thee to nought. And he shall
keep thee in all thy cities, until thy high and strong walls be come
down wherein thou trustedest, thorow all thy land. And he shall besiege
thee in all thy cities thorowout all thy land which the LORD thy God
hath given thee. And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body: the
flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters which the LORD thy God hath
given thee, in that straitness and siege wherewith thine enemy shall
besiege thee: so that it shall grieve the man that is tender and
exceeding delicate among you, to look on his brother and upon his wife
that lieth in his bosom and on the remnant of his children, which he
hath yet left, for fear of giving unto any of them of the flesh of his
children, which he eateth, because he hath nought left him in that
straitness and siege wherewith thine enemy shall besiege thee in all
thy cities. Yea and the woman that is so tender and delicate among you
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