“^aNow it shall be, if you diligently ¹obey the LORD your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I am commanding you today, that the LORD your God ^bwill put you high above all the nations of the earth. 2 And all these blessings will come to you and ^areach you if you ¹obey the LORD your God:

3 “Blessed will you be in the city, and blessed will you be ^ain the ¹country.

4 “Blessed will be the ¹children of your womb, the ²produce of your ground, and the ³offspring of your animals: the newborn of your herd and the young of your flock.

5 “Blessed will be your basket and your kneading bowl.

6 “Blessed will you be ^awhen you come in, and blessed will you be when you go out.

7 “The LORD will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be ¹defeated by you; they will go out against you one way and will flee at your presence seven ways. 8 The LORD will command the blessing for you in your ¹barns and in ^aeverything that you put your hand to, and He will bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. 9 ^aThe LORD will establish you as a holy people to Himself, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways. 10 So all the peoples of the earth will see that ^1ayou are called by the name of the LORD, and they will be afraid of you. 11 ^aAnd the LORD will give you more than enough prosperity, in the ¹children of your womb, in the ²offspring of your livestock, and in the ³produce of your ground, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you. 12 The LORD will open for you His good storehouse, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless every work of your hand; and ^ayou will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. 13 ^aAnd the LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you will only be above, and not be underneath, if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God which I am commanding you today, to ¹follow them carefully, 14 and ^ado not turn aside from any of the words which I am commanding you today, to the right or the left, to pursue other gods to serve them.

15 “^aBut it shall come about, if you do not ¹obey the LORD your God, to be careful to ²follow all His commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

16 “^aCursed will you be in the city, and cursed will you be in the ¹country.

17 “^aCursed will be your basket and your kneading bowl.

18 “^aCursed will be the ¹children of your womb, the ²produce of your ground, the newborn of your herd, and the offspring of your flock.

19 “^aCursed will you be when you come in, and cursed will you be when you go out.

20 “^aThe LORD will send against you curses, panic, and ^brebuke, in ¹everything you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and until ^cyou perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have abandoned Me. 21 ^aThe LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has eliminated you from the land where you are entering to take possession of it. 22 ^aThe LORD will strike you with consumption, inflammation, fever, feverish heat, and with ¹the sword, ^bwith blight, and with mildew, and they will pursue you until ^cyou perish. 23 ¹The heaven which is over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you, iron. 24 ^aThe LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.

25 “^aThe LORD will cause you to be defeated by your enemies; you will go out one way against them, but you will flee seven ways from their presence, and you will ^bbe an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 ^aYour dead bodies will ¹serve as food for all birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

27 “^aThe LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with ^btumors, the festering rash, and with scabies, from which you cannot be healed. 28 The LORD will strike you with insanity, blindness, and with confusion of ¹mind; 29 and you will be ^agroping about at noon, just as a person who is blind gropes in the darkness, and you will not be successful in your ways; but you will only be ¹oppressed and robbed all the time, with no one to save you. 30 ^aYou will ¹betroth a woman, but another man will ²violate her; ^byou will build a house, but you will not live in it; you will plant a vineyard, but you will not make use of its fruit. 31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat of it; your donkey will be snatched away from you, and will not ¹be restored to you; your ²sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you. 32 ^aYour sons and your daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes look on and long for them constantly; but there will be nothing ¹you can do. 33 ^aA people whom you do not know will eat the produce of your ground and every product of your labor, and you will never be anything but oppressed and mistreated continually. 34 You will also be driven insane by the sight of ¹what you see. 35 ^aThe LORD will strike you on the knees and thighs with severe boils from which you cannot be healed, and strike you from the sole of your foot to the top of your head. 36 ^aThe LORD will bring you and your king, whom you appoint over you, to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods, made of ^bwood and stone. 37 And ^ayou will become an object of horror, a song of mockery, and an object of taunting among all the peoples where the LORD drives you.

38 “^aYou will bring out a great amount of seed to the field, but you will gather in little, because ^bthe locust will devour it. 39 ^aYou will plant and cultivate vineyards, but you will neither drink of the wine nor bring in the harvest, because the worm will eat it. 40 ^aYou will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, because your olives will drop off prematurely. 41 ^aYou will father sons and daughters but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity. 42 ^aThe cricket will take possession of all your trees and the produce of your ground. 43 ^aThe stranger who is among you will rise above you higher and higher, and you will go down lower and lower. 44 ^aHe will lend to you, but you will not lend to him; ^bhe will be the head, and you will be the tail.

45 “So all these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you ^auntil you are destroyed, because you would not ¹obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you. 46 And they will become ^aa sign and a wonder ¹against you and your ²descendants forever.

47 “^aSince you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and a cheerful heart, in gratitude for the abundance of all things, 48 you will serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, ^ain hunger, thirst, nakedness, and devoid of all things; and He ^bwill put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

49 “^aThe LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, ^bas the eagle swoops down; a nation whose language you will not understand, 50 a nation ¹with a defiant attitude, who will ^ahave no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young. 51 Furthermore, it will eat the ¹offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed; a nation that will leave you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the newborn of your cattle or the young of your flock, until they have eliminated you. 52 ^aAnd it will besiege you in all your ¹towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land, and it will besiege you in all your ²towns throughout your land which the LORD your God has given you. 53 ^aThen you will eat the ¹offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, during the siege and the hardship by which your enemy will ²oppress you. 54 The man who is ¹refined and very delicate among you ²will be hostile toward his brother, toward the wife ³he cherishes, and toward the rest of his children who are left, 55 so that he will not give even one of them any of the flesh of his children which he will eat, since he has nothing else left, during the siege and the hardship by which your enemy will ¹oppress you in all your ²towns. 56 ^aThe ¹refined and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and tenderness, ²will be hostile toward the husband ³she cherishes and toward her son and daughter, 57 and toward her afterbirth that comes from between her ¹legs, and toward her children to whom she gives birth, because ^ashe will eat them secretly for lack of anything else, during the siege and the hardship with which your enemy will ²oppress you in your ³towns.

58 “If you are not careful to ¹follow all the words of this Law that are written in this book, to ^2afear this honored and awesome ^bname, ³the LORD your God, 59 then the LORD will bring extraordinary plagues on you and ¹your descendants, ²severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and chronic sicknesses. 60 ^aAnd He will bring back on you every disease of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you. 61 Also every sickness and every plague, which are not written in the book of this Law, the LORD will bring on you ^auntil you are destroyed. 62 Then you will be left few in ¹number, ^awhereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not ²obey the LORD your God. 63 And it will come about that, just as the LORD ^arejoiced over you to be good to you, and make you numerous, so will the LORD ^brejoice over you to wipe you out and destroy you; and you will be ^ctorn away from the land which you are entering to possess. 64 Furthermore, the LORD will ^ascatter you among all the peoples, from one end of the earth to ¹the other; and there you will ^bserve other gods, made of wood and stone, which you and your fathers have not known. 65 ^aAmong those nations you will find no peace, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there ^bthe LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul. 66 So your lives will be ¹hanging in doubt before you; and you will be terrified night and day, and have no assurance of your life. 67 ^aIn the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ And at evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’ because of the terror of your heart which you fear, and the sight of your eyes which you will see. 68 And the LORD will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way about which I said to you, ‘You will never see it again!’ And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”

“^aNow it shall be, if you diligently ¹obey the LORD your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I command you today, the LORD your God ^bwill set you high above all the nations of the earth. 2 All these blessings will come upon you and ^aovertake you if you ¹obey the LORD your God:

3 “Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be ^ain the ¹country.

4 “Blessed shall be the ¹offspring of your ²body and the ³produce of your ground and the ⁴offspring of your beasts, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.

5 “Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

6 “Blessed shall you be ^awhen you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.

7 “The LORD shall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be ¹defeated before you; they will come out against you one way and will flee before you seven ways. 8 The LORD will command the blessing upon you in your barns and in ^aall that you put your hand to, and He will bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you. 9 ^aThe LORD will establish you as a holy people to Himself, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways. 10 So all the peoples of the earth will see that ^1ayou are called by the name of the LORD, and they will be afraid of you. 11 ^aThe LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the ¹offspring of your ²body and in the ³offspring of your beast and in the ⁴produce of your ground, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you. 12 The LORD will open for you His good storehouse, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand; and ^ayou shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. 13 ^aThe LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you only will be above, and you will not be underneath, if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, which I charge you today, to ¹observe them carefully, 14 and ^ado not turn aside from any of the words which I command you today, to the right or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

15 “^aBut it shall come about, if you do not ¹obey the LORD your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

16 “^aCursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the ¹country.

17 “^aCursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

18 “^aCursed shall be the ¹offspring of your ²body and the ³produce of your ground, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.

19 “^aCursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

20 “^aThe LORD will send upon you curses, confusion, and ^brebuke, in all ¹you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and until ^cyou perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken Me. 21 ^aThe LORD will make the pestilence cling to you until He has consumed you from the land where you are entering to possess it. 22 ^aThe LORD will smite you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with ¹the sword and ^bwith blight and with mildew, and they will pursue you until ^cyou perish. 23 ¹The heaven which is over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you, iron. 24 ^aThe LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.

25 “^aThe LORD shall cause you to be ¹defeated before your enemies; you will go out one way against them, but you will flee seven ways before them, and you will ^bbe an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 ^aYour carcasses will be food to all birds of the sky and to the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

27 “^aThe LORD will smite you with the boils of Egypt and with ^btumors and with the scab and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed. 28 The LORD will smite you with madness and with blindness and with bewilderment of heart; 29 and you will ^1agrope at noon, as the blind man gropes in darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways; but you shall only be oppressed and robbed continually, with none to save you. 30 ^aYou shall betroth a wife, but another man will violate her; ^byou shall build a house, but you will not live in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but you will not ¹use its fruit. 31 Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat of it; your donkey shall be torn away from you, and will not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you will have none to save you. 32 ^aYour sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and yearn for them continually; but there will be nothing ¹you can do. 33 ^aA people whom you do not know shall eat up the produce of your ground and all your labors, and you will never be anything but oppressed and crushed continually. 34 You shall be driven mad by the sight of ¹what you see. 35 ^aThe LORD will strike you on the knees and legs with sore boils, from which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head. 36 ^aThe LORD will bring you and your king, whom you set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods, ^bwood and stone. 37 ^aYou shall become a horror, a proverb, and a taunt among all the people where the LORD drives you.

38 “^aYou shall bring out much seed to the field but you will gather in little, for ^bthe locust will consume it. 39 ^aYou shall plant and cultivate vineyards, but you will neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm will devour them. 40 ^aYou shall have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off. 41 ^aYou shall ¹have sons and daughters but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity. 42 ^aThe cricket shall possess all your trees and the produce of your ground. 43 ^aThe alien who is among you shall rise above you higher and higher, but you will go down lower and lower. 44 ^aHe shall lend to you, but you will not lend to him; ^bhe shall be the head, and you will be the tail.

45 “So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you ^auntil you are destroyed, because you would not ¹obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you. 46 They shall become ^aa sign and a wonder on you and your ¹descendants forever.

47 “^aBecause you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and a glad heart, for the abundance of all things; 48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, ^ain hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and He ^bwill put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

49 “^aThe LORD will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, ^bas the eagle swoops down, a nation whose language you shall not understand, 50 a nation of fierce countenance who will ^ahave no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young. 51 Moreover, it shall eat the ¹offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who also leaves you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the increase of your herd or the young of your flock until they have caused you to perish. 52 ^aIt shall besiege you in all your ¹towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land, and it shall besiege you in all your ²towns throughout your land which the LORD your God has given you. 53 ^aThen you shall eat the ¹offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will ²oppress you. 54 The man who is ¹refined and very delicate among you ²shall be hostile toward his brother and toward the wife ³he cherishes and toward the rest of his children who remain, 55 so that he will not give even one of them any of the flesh of his children which he will eat, since he has nothing else left, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will ¹oppress you in all your ²towns. 56 ^aThe ¹refined and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and ²refinement, ³shall be hostile toward the husband ⁴she cherishes and toward her son and daughter, 57 and toward her afterbirth which issues from between her ¹legs and toward her children whom she bears; for ^ashe will eat them secretly for lack of anything else, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will ²oppress you in your ³towns.

58 “If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, to ^1afear this honored and awesome ^bname, ²the LORD your God, 59 then the LORD will bring extraordinary plagues on you and ¹your descendants, even ²severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and chronic sicknesses. 60 ^aHe will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you. 61 Also every sickness and every plague which, not written in the book of this law, the LORD will bring on you ^auntil you are destroyed. 62 Then you shall be left few in number, ^awhereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not ¹obey the LORD your God. 63 It shall come about that as the LORD ^adelighted over you to prosper you, and multiply you, so the LORD will ^bdelight over you to make you perish and destroy you; and you will be ^ctorn from the land where you are entering to possess it. 64 Moreover, the LORD will ^ascatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shall ^bserve other gods, wood and stone, which you or your fathers have not known. 65 ^aAmong those nations you shall find no rest, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there ^bthe LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul. 66 So your life shall ¹hang in doubt before you; and you will be in dread night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life. 67 ^aIn the morning you shall say, ‘Would that it were evening!’ And at evening you shall say, ‘Would that it were morning!’ because of the dread of your heart which you dread, and for the sight of your eyes which you will see. 68 The LORD will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way about which I spoke to you, ‘You will never see it again!’ And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”

“^aNow it shall be, if you diligently listen to and obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all of His commandments which I am commanding you today, the LORD your God ^bwill set you high above all the nations of the earth. 2 All these blessings will come upon you and ^aovertake you if you pay attention to the voice of the LORD your God.

3 “You will be blessed in the city, and you will be blessed ^ain the field.

4 “The ¹offspring of your ²body and the produce of your ground and the offspring of your animals, the offspring of your herd and the young of your flock will be blessed.

5 “Your basket and your kneading bowl will be blessed.

6 “You will be blessed ^awhen you come in and you will be blessed when you go out.

7 “The LORD will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you; they will come out against you one way, but flee before you seven ways. 8 The LORD will command the blessing upon you in your storehouses and in ^1aall that you undertake, and He will bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you. 9 ^aThe LORD will establish you as a people holy and set apart to Himself, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk that is, live your life each and every day in His ways. 10 So all the peoples of the earth will see that ^ayou are called by the name of the LORD, and they will be afraid of you. 11 ^aThe LORD will give you great prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your ground, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you. 12 The LORD will open for you His good treasure house, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand; and ^ayou will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. 13 ^aThe LORD will make you the head (leader) and not the tail (follower) ; and you will be above only, and you will not be beneath, if you listen and pay attention to the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am commanding you today, to observe them carefully. 14 ^aDo not turn aside from any of the words which I am commanding you today, to the right or to the left, to follow and serve other gods.

15 “^aBut it shall come about, if you do not listen to and obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all His commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today, then all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

16 “^aYou will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field.

17 “^aYour basket and your kneading bowl will be cursed.

18 “^aThe offspring of your body and the produce of your land, the offspring of your herd and the young of your flock will be cursed.

19 “^aYou will be cursed when you come in and you will be cursed when you go out.

20 “^aThe LORD will send upon you curses, confusion, and ^brebuke in everything that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed, ^cperishing quickly because of the evil of your deeds, because you have ¹turned away from Me. 21 ^aThe LORD will make the pestilence and plague cling to you until He has consumed and eliminated you from the land which you are entering to possess. 22 ^aThe LORD will strike you with consumption causing you to waste away and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with the sword and ^bwith blight and with mildew on your crops; and they will pursue you until ^cyou perish. 23 The heaven which is over your head shall be bronze giving no rain and blocking all prayers, and the earth which is under you, iron hard to plow and yielding no produce. 24 ^aThe LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it will come down on you until you are destroyed.

25 “^aThe LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you will go out against them one way, but flee before them seven ways, and you will ^bbe an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth when they see your destruction. 2+@Chr 29:8 26 ^aYour carcasses will be food for all the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

27 “^aThe LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with ^btumors and with the scab and the itch that you cannot heal. 28 The LORD will strike you with madness and with blindness and with bewilderment of heart and mind; 29 and you will be ^agroping at noon in broad daylight, just as the blind grope in the darkness, and nothing you do will prosper; but you will only be oppressed and exploited and robbed continually, with no one to save you. 30 ^aYou will be pledged to marry a wife, but another man will be intimate with her before you; ^byou will build a house, but you will not live in it; you will plant a vineyard, but you will not use its fruit. 31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it; your donkey will be torn away from you, and it will not be returned to you; your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you. 32 ^aYour sons and daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes look on and long for them continually; but there will be nothing you can do. 2+@Chr 29:9 33 ^aA people whom you do not know will eat the produce of your land and all the products of your labors, and you will never be anything but oppressed and exploited and crushed continually. Judg 6:1-6; 13:1 34 You shall be driven mad by the sight of ¹the things you see. 35 ^aThe LORD will strike you on the knees and on the legs with sore boils that you cannot heal, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head. 36 ^aThe LORD will bring you and your king, whom you appoint over you, to a nation which you and your fathers have never known; there you will be forced to serve other gods, lifeless gods of ^bwood and stone. 2+@Kin 17:4, 6; 24:12, 14; 25:7, 11; Dan 6:11, 12 37 ^aAnd you will become a horror, a proverb a mere object lesson, and a taunt a derisive joke among all the people to which the LORD drives you.

38 “^aYou will bring out a great quantity of seed to the field, but you will gather in little, because ^bthe locusts will consume it. Hag 1:6 39 ^aYou will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because the worm will eat them. 40 ^aYou will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not ¹anoint yourselves with the oil, because your olives will drop off. 41 ^aYou will have sons and daughters, but they will not be yours for long, because they will go into captivity. Lam 1:5 42 ^aThe cricket will take possession of all your trees and the produce of your ground. Joel 1:4 43 ^aThe stranger who lives among you will rise above you higher and higher, and you will go down lower and lower. 44 ^aHe will lend to you out of his affluence, but you will not lend to him because of your poverty; ^bhe will be the head, and you the tail.

45 “So all these curses will come on you and pursue you and overtake you ^auntil you are destroyed, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He has commanded you. 46 They will be a ^asign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever.

47 “^aBecause you did not serve the LORD your God with a heart full of joy and gladness for the abundance of all things with which He blessed you, 48 you will therefore serve your enemies whom the LORD sends against you, ^ain hunger and in thirst, in nakedness and in lack of all things; and He ^bwill put an iron yoke of slavery on your neck until He has destroyed you.

49 “^aThe LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, as swift ^bas the eagle swoops down to attack, a nation whose language you will not understand, 50 a ¹defiant nation who will ^2ahave no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young, 51 and it will eat the offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who will leave you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the offspring of your herd or the young of your flock until they have caused you to perish. 52 ^aThey will besiege you in all your cities until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land; and they will besiege you in all your cities throughout your land which the LORD your God has given you. 53 ^aThen you will eat the offspring of your own body to avoid starvation, the flesh of your sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, during the siege and the misery by which your enemy will oppress you. 2+@Kin 6:24-29 54 The man who is most refined and well-bred among you ¹will be cruel and hostile toward his brother and toward ²the wife he cherishes and toward the rest of his children who remain, 55 so that he will not give even one of them any of the flesh of his children ¹which he will eat, ²because he has nothing else left, during the siege and the misery by which your enemy will oppress you in all your cities. 56 ^aThe most refined and well-bred woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and pampered, ¹will be cruel and hostile toward ²the husband she cherishes and toward her son and daughter, 57 and toward her afterbirth that comes from between her legs and toward the children whom she bears; for ^ashe will eat them secretly for lack of anything else, during the siege and the misery by which your enemy will oppress you in your cities.

58 “If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, to ^afear and honor with reverence this glorious and awesome ^bname, the LORD your God, 59 then the LORD will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, even severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and chronic sicknesses. 60 Moreover, ^aHe will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you. 61 Also the LORD will bring on you every sickness and every plague which is not written in this book of this law, ^auntil you are destroyed. 62 Because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God, ^ayou who were as numerous as the stars of heaven shall be left few in number. 63 It shall come about that just as the LORD ^adelighted over you to make you prosper and multiply, so the LORD will ^bdelight over you to bring you to ruin and destruction; and you will be ^1cuprooted violently from the land which you are entering to possess. 64 And the LORD will ^ascatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other; and there you will be forced to ^bserve other gods, lifeless gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known. Dan 3:6 65 ^aAmong those nations you will find no peace (rest) , and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there ^bthe LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul. 66 Your life will hang in doubt before you; night and day you will be filled with anxiety and have no assurance of living. 67 ^aIn the morning you will say, ‘I wish it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘I wish it were morning!’—because of the dread in your heart with which you tremble, and because of the sight of your eyes which you will see. 68 The LORD will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way about which I said to you, ‘You will never see it again!’ And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no one to buy you.” Hos 8:13