15 “But if you will not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God by taking care to do all his commandments and his statutes that I am commanding you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:+

33 The fruitage of your ground and all that you produce will be eaten by a people whom you have not known,+ and you will always be defrauded and crushed.

17 “The people of Israel are scattered sheep.+ Lions have dispersed them.+ First the king of As·syrʹi·a devoured them;+ then King Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar* of Babylon gnawed on their bones.+