Economic Ruin and Foreign Domination

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Thou shalt carie out much seede into the fielde, and shalt gather but litle in: for the grashoppers shall destroy it.

39

Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and dresse it, but shalt neither drinke of the wine, nor gather the grapes: for the wormes shall eate it.

40

Thou shalt haue Oliue trees in all thy coastes, but shalt not anoynt thy selfe with the oyle: for thine oliues shall fall.

41

Thou shalt beget sonnes, and daughters, but shalt not haue them: for they shall goe into captiuitie.

42

All thy trees and fruite of thy land shall the grashopper consume.

43

The straunger that is among you, shall clime aboue thee vp on hie, and thou shalt come downe beneath alow.

44

He shall lend thee, and thou shalt not lend him: he shalbe the head, and thou shalt be ye tayle.

45

Moreouer, all these curses shall come vpon thee, and shall pursue thee and ouertake thee, till thou be destroyed, because thou obeyedst not the voyce of the Lord thy God, to keepe his commandements, and his ordinances, which he commanded thee:

46

And they shalbe vpon thee for signes and wonders, and vpon thy seede for euer,

47

Because thou seruedst not the Lord thy God with ioyfulnesse and with a good heart for the abundance of all things.

48

Therefore thou shalt serue thine enemies which the Lord shall send vpon thee, in hunger and in thirst, and in nakednesse, and in neede of all things? and he shall put a yoke of yron vpon thy necke vntill he haue destroyed thee.

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