40. You shall have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off.
41. You shall beget sons and daughters, but you shall not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.
42. All your trees and fruit of your land shall the locust consume.
43. The stranger that is among you shall rise up above you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower.
44. He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him: he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
45. Moreover all these curses shall come upon you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, till you are destroyed; because you hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you: