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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.