47 ^a“Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and gladness of heart, ^bfor the abundance of everything,  ‡

48 therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the Lord will send against you, in ^ahunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He ^bwill put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you.  ‡

50 a nation of fierce countenance, ^awhich does not respect the elderly nor show favor to the young.  ‡

51 And they shall eat the increase of your livestock and the produce of your land, until you are destroyed; they shall not leave you grain or new wine or oil, or the increase of your cattle or the offspring of your flocks, until they have destroyed you.