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The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth.
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Your carcasses will be food for all the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.
27
The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured.
28
The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind.
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At midday you will grope about like a blind person in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue you.
30
You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit.
31
Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them.
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Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand.
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A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days.
34
The sights you see will drive you mad.
35
The LORD will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
36
The LORD will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your ancestors. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone.
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You will become a thing of horror, a byword and an object of ridicule among all the peoples where the LORD will drive you.
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You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it.
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You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.
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You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off.
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You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity.