45 ^v“All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you. 46 They shall be ^wa sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever. 47 ^xBecause you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, 48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he ^ywill put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you. 49 ^zThe Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, ^aswooping down like the eagle, a nation ^bwhose language you do not understand, 50 a hard-faced nation ^cwho shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young. 51 It shall ^deat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.