Deuteronomy 28:33-43

33 A nation you don't know anything about will eat what you work to produce on your land. You will be completely beaten down as long as you live.
34 The things you see will make you lose your mind.
35 The LORD will send painful boils on your knees and legs. No one will be able to heal them. They will cover you from head to toe.
36 The LORD will drive you out of the land. And he will drive out the king you place over you. All of you will go to a nation you and your people long ago didn't know anything about. There you will worship other gods. They will be made out of wood and stone.
37 You will look very bad to all of the nations where the LORD sends you. They will be completely shocked when they see you. They will laugh at you and make fun of you.
38 You will plant many seeds in your field. But you will gather very little food. Locusts will eat it up.
39 You will plant vineyards and take care of them. But you won't drink the wine. You won't gather the grapes. Worms will eat them up.
40 You will have olive trees through your whole country. But you won't use the oil. The olives will drop off the trees.
41 You will have children. But you won't be able to keep them. They'll be taken away as prisoners.
42 Large numbers of locusts will eat up the leaves on all of your trees. They will also eat up the crops on your land.
43 Outsiders who live among you will become your leaders. They will rise higher and higher. But you will sink lower and lower.

Deuteronomy 28:33-43 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 28

In this chapter Moses enlarges on the blessings and the curses which belong, the one to the doers, the other to the transgressors of the law; the blessings, De 28:1-14; the curses, some of which concern individual persons, others the whole nation and body of people, and that both under the former and present dispensations, and which had their fulfilment in their former captivities, and more especially in their present dispersion, De 28:15-68.

Holy Bible, New International Reader's Version® Copyright © 1995, 1996, 1998 by Biblica.   All rights reserved worldwide.