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The Lord will send wasting disease, and burning pain, and flaming heat against you, keeping back the rain till your land is waste and dead; so will it be till your destruction is complete.
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And the heaven over your heads will be brass, and the earth under you hard as iron.
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The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust, sending it down on you from heaven till your destruction is complete.
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The Lord will let you be overcome by your haters: you will go out against them one way, and you will go in flight before them seven ways: you will be the cause of fear among all the kingdoms of the earth.
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Your bodies will be meat for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth; there will be no one to send them away.
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The Lord will send on you the disease of Egypt, and other sorts of skin diseases which nothing will make well.
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He will make your minds diseased, and your eyes blind, and your hearts wasted with fear:
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You will go feeling your way when the sun is high, like a blind man for whom all is dark, and nothing will go well for you: you will be crushed and made poor for ever, and you will have no saviour.
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You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.
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Your ox will be put to death before your eyes, but its flesh will not be your food: your ass will be violently taken away before your face, and will not be given back to you: your sheep will be given to your haters, and there will be no saviour for you.
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Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and your eyes will be wasted away with looking and weeping for them all the day: and you will have no power to do anything.
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The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation which is strange to you and to your fathers; you will only be crushed down and kept under for ever:
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So that the things which your eyes have to see will send you out of your minds.
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The Lord will send a skin disease, attacking your knees and your legs, bursting out from your feet to the top of your head, so that nothing will make you well.
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And you, and the king whom you have put over you, will the Lord take away to a nation strange to you and to your fathers; there you will be servants to other gods of wood and stone.
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And you will become a wonder and a name of shame among all the nations where the Lord will take you.
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You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.
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You will put in vines and take care of them, but you will get no wine or grapes from them; for they will be food for worms.
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Your land will be full of olive-trees, but there will be no oil for the comfort of your body; for your olive-tree will give no fruit.
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You will have sons and daughters, but they will not be yours; for they will go away prisoners into a strange land.
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All your trees and the fruit of your land will be the locust's.
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The man from a strange land who is living among you will be lifted up higher and higher over you, while you go down lower and lower.
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He will let you have his wealth at interest, and will have no need of yours: he will be the head and you the tail.
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And all these curses will come after you and overtake you, till your destruction is complete; because you did not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, or keep his laws and his orders which he gave you:
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These things will come on you and on your seed, to be a sign and a wonder for ever;
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Because you did not give honour to the Lord your God, worshipping him gladly, with joy in your hearts on account of all your wealth of good things;
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For this cause you will become servants to those whom the Lord your God will send against you, without food and drink and clothing, and in need of all things: and he will put a yoke of iron on your neck till he has put an end to you.
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The Lord will send a nation against you from the farthest ends of the earth, coming with the flight of an eagle; a nation whose language is strange to you;
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A hard-faced nation, who will have no respect for the old or mercy for the young:
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He will take the fruit of your cattle and of your land till death puts an end to you: he will let you have nothing of your grain or wine or oil or any of the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, till he has made your destruction complete.
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Your towns will be shut in by his armies, till your high walls, in which you put your faith, have come down: his armies will be round your towns, through all your land which the Lord your God has given you.