Your children will be cursed. Your crops will be cursed. Your calves and lambs will be cursed.

你身所生的，地所产的，以及牛犊、羊羔，都必受咒诅。

你身所生的，你地所产的，以及牛犊、羔羊，都必受诅咒。

你身所生的，你地所产的，以及牛犊、羔羊，都必受诅咒。

“妇女所生的，土地所产的，牛羊所生的都必受咒诅。

你身所生的、土地所出的、牛生殖的和羊所产的，都必受咒诅。

你身所生的，地所產的，以及牛犢、羊羔，都必受咒詛。

你身所生的，你地所產的，以及牛犢、羔羊，都必受詛咒。

你身所生的，你地所產的，以及牛犢、羔羊，都必受詛咒。

「婦女所生的，土地所產的，牛羊所生的都必受咒詛。

你身所生的、土地所出的、牛生殖的和羊所產的，都必受咒詛。

你腹中的果子、你土地上的果實、你幼小的牛和肥嫩的羊、必都受咒詛。

身之所生、土之所產、畜之所出、牛羣之犢、羊羣之羔、並皆受詛、

身之所生、土之所產、牛羊所出、俱服咒詛。

The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.

Your children and your crops will be cursed. The offspring of your herds and flocks will be cursed.

Your offspring will be cursed, and your land’s produce, the young of your herds, and the newborn of your flocks.

“ Cursed will be the children of your womb, the produce of your ground, the newborn of your herd, and the offspring of your flock.

“ Cursed shall be the fruit of your body and the produce of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.

Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, the increase of thy cattle, and the young of thy flock.

Your descendants will be cursed, and your land’s produce, the young of your herds, and the newborn of your flocks.

Cursed[ shall be] the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

Your children will be cursed, as well as the produce of your soil, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.

The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock will be cursed.

Your children will be blessed. Your crops will be blessed. The young animals among your livestock will be blessed. That includes your calves and lambs.

I will cut off your supply of bread. Ten women will need only one oven to bake your bread. They will weigh out the bread piece by piece. Even when you eat all of it, it will not be enough to satisfy you.

I will break down your stubborn pride. I will make the sky above you like iron, and it will not rain. I will make the ground under you like bronze, and you will not be able to farm it.You will work with all your strength, but it will not do you any good. That is because your soil will not produce any crops. The trees of your land will not bear any fruit.

May their children’s fathers die. May their wives become widows.May their children be driven from their destroyed homes. May they wander around like beggars.May everything those people own be taken away to pay for what they owe. May strangers rob them of everything they’ve worked for.May no one be kind to them or take pity on the children they leave behind.May their family line come to an end. May their names be forgotten by those who live after them.May the Lord remember the evil things their fathers have done. May he never erase the sins of their mothers.May the Lord never forget their sins. Then he won’t let people remember the names of my enemies anymore.

The time will come when you will say,‘ Blessed are the women who can’t have children! Blessed are those who never gave birth or nursed babies!’It is written,“‘ The people will say to the mountains,“ Fall on us!” They’ll say to the hills,“ Cover us!” ’( Hosea 10:8)

Do not bow down to them or worship them. I am the Lord your God. I want you to worship only me. I cause the sins of the parents to affect their children. I will cause the sins of those who hate me to affect even their grandchildren and great- grandchildren.

I’ve cried so much I can’t see very well. I’m suffering deep down inside. My heart is broken because my people are destroyed. Children and babies are fainting in the streets of the city.They say to their mothers,“ Where can we find something to eat and drink?” They faint like wounded soldiers in the streets of the city. Their lives are slipping away in their mothers’ arms.

“ Because of what you have done, I will punish your children. I will smear the waste from your sacrifices on your faces. And you will be carried off to the dump along with it.

Jerusalem says,“ Lord, look at me. Think about my condition. Have you ever treated anyone else like this? Should women have to eat their babies? Should they eat the children they’ve taken care of? Should priests and prophets be killed in your own temple?

Ephraim’s greatness and glory will be gone. It will fly away like a bird. Women will no longer have children. They will not be able to get pregnant.But suppose they do have children. Then I will kill every one of them. How terrible it will be for them when I turn away from them!Tyre is planted in a pleasant place. And so is Ephraim. But the Assyrians will kill Ephraim’s children.”Lord, what should you do to Ephraim’s people? Give them women whose babies die before they are born. Give them women whose breasts have no milk.

Their roots dry up under them. Their branches dry up above them.No one on earth remembers them. Their names are forgotten in the land.They are driven from light into the place of darkness. They are thrown out of the world.Their family dies out among their people. No one is left where they used to live.

The fig trees might not bud. The vines might not produce any grapes. The olive crop might fail. The fields might not produce any food. There might not be any sheep in the pens. There might not be any cattle in the barns.

You will be cursed in the cities. You will be cursed out in the country.