Deuteronomy 28:47-49

Common English Bible

⁴⁷ Because you didn’t serve the Lord your God joyfully and gladly above all else,^{[a] 48} you will serve your enemies—the ones the Lord will send against you—during famine, drought, nakedness, and total deprivation. God will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has wiped you out. ⁴⁹ The Lord will bring a distant nation—one from the far ends of the earth—against you as fast as the eagle flies: a nation that speaks a language you can’t understand,