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35 The Lord will cause you to have boils on your knees and on your legs. They will give you much pain and they will never get better. They will soon cover your whole body, from your toes to the top of your head.

36 When you choose a king for yourselves, the Lord will send you and him away to a foreign country. It will be a place that neither you nor your ancestors have ever heard about. There you will serve gods that people have made from stone and wood. 37 The Lord will send you away to live among foreign people. When they see what has happened to you, they will all see that it is terrible. They will tell stories about you and they will laugh at you.

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35 The Lord will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils(A) that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.(B)

36 The Lord will drive you and the king(C) you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your ancestors.(D) There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone.(E) 37 You will become a thing of horror,(F) a byword(G) and an object of ridicule(H) among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.(I)

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