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Thou shalt have olive trees in all thy borders, and shalt not be anointed with the oil: for the olives shall fall off and perish.
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Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, and shalt not enjoy them: because they shall be led into captivity.
42
The blast shall consume all the trees and the fruits of thy ground.
43
The stranger that liveth with thee in the land, shall rise up over thee, and shall be higher: and thou shalt go down, and be lower.
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He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him. He shall be as the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
45
And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue and overtake thee, till thou perish: because thou heardst not the voice of the Lord thy God, and didst not keep his commandments and ceremonies which he commanded thee.
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And they shall be as signs and wonders on thee, and on thy seed for ever.
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Because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things:
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Thou shalt serve thy enemy, whom the Lord will send upon thee, in hunger, and thirst, and nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put an iron yoke upon thy neck, till he consume thee.
49
The Lord will bring upon thee a nation from afar, and from the uttermost ends of the earth, like an eagle that flyeth swiftly, whose tongue thou canst not understand,
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A most insolent nation, that will shew no regard to the ancients, nor have pity on the infant,