Whirring locusts will take over every tree and all the produce of your soil.

They will besiege all of your villages until all of your high and fortified walls collapse – those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the Lord your God has given you.

Moses proclaimed to all Israel as follows: “You have seen all that the Lord did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, all his servants, and his land.

At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them under divine judgment, including even the women and children; we left no survivors.

However, you did not approach the land of the Ammonites, the Wadi Jabbok, the cities of the hill country, or any place else forbidden by the Lord our God.

The Lord commanded us to obey all these statutes and to revere him so that it may always go well for us and he may preserve us, as he has to this day.

It is not because you were more numerous than all the other peoples that the Lord favored and chose you – for in fact you were the least numerous of all peoples.

For the Lord your God has chosen them and their sons from all your tribes to stand and serve in his name permanently.

Then all the men of his city must stone him to death. In this way you will purge out wickedness from among you, and all Israel will hear about it and be afraid.

Today the Lord your God is commanding you to keep these statutes and ordinances, something you must do with all your heart and soul.

As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.

Moreover, the Lord will bring upon you every kind of sickness and plague not mentioned in this scroll of commandments, until you have perished.

You are standing today, all of you, before the Lord your God – the heads of your tribes, your elders, your officials, every Israelite man,

The Lord will single him out for judgment from all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant written in this scroll of the law.

The Lord your God will also cleanse your heart and the hearts of your descendants so that you may love him with all your mind and being and so that you may live.

and all of Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the distant sea,

When Sihon and all his troops emerged to encounter us in battle at Jahaz,

But you who remained faithful to the Lord your God are still alive to this very day, every one of you.

and that you may drive out all your enemies just as the Lord said.

and any winged thing on the ground are impure to you – they may not be eaten.