¹⁶ then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever^(A) that will destroy your sight and sap your strength.^(B) You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.^(C)

²⁵ And I will bring the sword^(A) on you to avenge^(B) the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague^(C) among you, and you will be given into enemy hands.

²⁶ When I cut off your supply of bread,^(A) ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.

²¹ The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.^{(A) 22} The Lord will strike you with wasting disease,^(B) with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought,^(C) with blight^(D) and mildew, which will plague^(E) you until you perish.^{(F) 23} The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.^(G)

³⁸ You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little,^(A) because locusts^(B) will devour^(C) it. ³⁹ You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine^(D) or gather the grapes, because worms will eat^(E) them.^{(F) 40} You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off.^{(G) 41} You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity.^{(H) 42} Swarms of locusts^(I) will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.