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and it shall be in the day you cross over the Jordan to the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you, that you shall raise up for yourself great stones, and plaster them with plaster.

Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people; and your eyes shall look and fail for them all the day. And no power shall be in your hand.

You shall carry much seed out to the field, and you shall gather in little; for the locusts will devour it.

You shall plant vineyards, and shall labor, and you shall not gather, nor drink wine; for the worm will devour it.

You shall have olive trees in all your border, and you shall not anoint with oil; for your olive shall fall off.

You shall father sons and daughters, and they shall not be with you; for they shall go into captivity.

And all these curses shall come on you and shall pursue you and overtake you, until you are destroyed; for you did not heed the voice of Jehovah your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.

And they shall be on you for a sign and for a wonder, and on your seed forever,

because you did not serve Jehovah your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart for the abundance of all things,

The soft and delicate woman among you, who would not have ventured to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter;

and against her fetus which comes out from between her feet, even against her sons whom she shall bear. For she shall eat them in secret, for the lack of everything in the siege and in the anguish with which the enemy shall distress you withinyour gates.

And you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of the heavens for multitude, because you would not obey the voice of Jehovah your God.

In the morning you shall say, Oh that it were evening! And in the evening you shall say, Oh that it were morning! For the fear of your heart with which you fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.

And Jehovah shall bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I said to you, You shall never see it again. And you shall be sold to your enemies there, for male slaves and slave-girls; and there shall be no buyer.

and took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and for the half tribe of Manasseh.

so that He may establish you today for a people to Himself, and He Himself be your God, as He has spoken to you, and as He has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham to Isaac, and to Jacob.

For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the nations through which you passed.

Jehovah will not be willing to forgive him, for then Jehovah's anger and His zeal shall smoke, and His zeal shall be against that man, and all the curses written in this book shall lie uponhim. And Jehovah shall blot out his name fromunder the heavens.

And all the nations shall say, Why has Jehovah done this to this land? For what is the heat of this great anger?

For they went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods which they did not know, and who had not divided to them any portion.