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36 The Lord will bring you and your king, whom you appoint over you, to a nation which you and your fathers have never known; there you will [be forced to] serve other gods, [lifeless gods of] wood and stone.(A) 37 And you will become a horror, a proverb [a mere object lesson], and a taunt [a derisive joke] among all the people to which the Lord drives you.

38 “You will bring out a great quantity of seed to the field, but you will gather in little, because the locusts will consume it.(B)

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

38 You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little,(H) because locusts(I) will devour(J) it.

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