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36 “The Lord will send you and your king away to a nation you don’t know. You and your ancestors have never seen that nation. There you will serve false gods made of wood and stone. 37 In the countries where the Lord will send you, the people will be shocked at the terrible things that happen to you. They will laugh at you and say bad things about you.

The Curse of Failure

38 “Your fields will produce plenty of grain. But your harvest will be small, because the locusts will eat your harvest.

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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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