Deuteronomy 28:47-49

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴⁷ Because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things:

⁴⁸ Thou shalt serve thy enemy, whom the Lord will send upon thee, in hunger, and thirst, and nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put an iron yoke upon thy neck, till he consume thee.

⁴⁹ The Lord will bring upon thee a nation from afar, and from the uttermost ends of the earth, like an eagle that flyeth swiftly, whose tongue thou canst not understand,