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There shall be olive trees for you in all of your territory, but you shall not anoint [yourself], for your olives shall drop off.
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You shall bear sons and daughters, but they shall not be {yours}, for they shall go into captivity.
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The cricket shall take possession of all your trees and the fruit of your ground.
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The alien that [is] in your midst shall ascend over you, higher [and] higher, but you shall go down lower [and] lower.
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He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be [the] head, but you shall be [the] tail.
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"And all of these curses shall come over you, and they shall pursue you, and they shall overtake you {until you are destroyed}, because {you did not listen} to the voice of Yahweh your God, {by observing} his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you.
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And they shall be among you as a sign and as a wonder and among your offspring {forever}.
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"{Because} [of the fact] that you did not serve Yahweh your God with joy and with gladness of heart for the abundance of everything,
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then you shall serve your enemies, whom Yahweh will send against you [under conditions of] famine, in thirst, in nakedness, and in [a] lack of everything; and he shall place a yoke of iron on your neck {until he has destroyed you}.
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Yahweh will raise [up] against you a nation from far [off], from the end of the earth, [attacking] as the eagle swoops [down], {a nation whose language you will not understand},
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{a grim-faced nation} {who does not show respect} to [the] old and [the] young [and] does not show pity.