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,^(D) 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)

³⁷ You will become a thing of horror,^(A) a byword^(B) and an object of ridicule^(C) among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.^(D)

³⁸ You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little,^(E) because locusts^(F) will devour^(G) it.

⁴² Swarms of locusts^(A) will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.

⁵² They will lay siege^(A) to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the Lord your God is giving you.^(B)