These verses are the opposites of verses 3 and 5. Here cursed means “will fail,” and the two verses may be alternatively translated as:

• Yahweh will cause your businesses and farms to fail. You won’t have enough grain and there will not be enough food to eat.

Quoted with permission from Bratcher, Robert G. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on Deuteronomy. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2000. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .