13
The LORD will make you the head of things, not the tail; you will be at the top of things, not the bottom, as long as you obey the LORD your God's commandments that I'm commanding you right now, by carefully doing them.
14
Don't deviate even a bit from any of these words that I'm commanding you right now by following other gods and serving them.
Future curses
15 But if you don't obey the LORD your God's voice by carefully doing all his commandments and his regulations that I am commanding you right now, all these curses will come upon you and find you.
16
You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field.
17
Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.
18
Your own fertility, your soil's produce, your cattle's young, and your flock's offspring will be cursed.
19
You will be cursed when you are out and about and cursed when you come back.
20
The LORD will send calamity, confusion, and frustration on you no matter what work you are doing until you are wiped out and until you disappear—it'll be quick!—because of the evil acts by which you have abandoned him.
21
The LORD will make a plague stick to you until he has totally wiped you off the fertile land you are entering to possess.
22
The LORD will strike you with consumption, fever, and inflammation; with scorching heat and drought; with destruction and disease for your crops. These things will chase you until you are dead and gone.
23
The sky over your head will be as hard as bronze; the earth under your feet will be like iron.