Deuteronomy 28:53-68 ▼

53 And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom YHWH your God has given you, in the siege and dire straits that your enemy will inflict on you.

54 The tender man among you and very refined—his eye shall do evil against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his sons whom he leaves behind,

55 so that he will not give to one of them the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because there remains nothing at all for him in the siege and dire straits that your enemy will inflict on you at all your gates.

56 The tender 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—her eye is evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter,

57 and against her afterbirth that comes from between her feet, and against her children whom she bears. For she will eat them in secret for lack of anything in the siege and dire straits that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.

58 If you are not careful to do all the words of this law written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name—YHWH your God—

59 then YHWH will bring extraordinary plagues and the plagues of your seed, great and prolonged plagues, and evil and prolonged sicknesses.

60 And He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt, the presence of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you.

61 Also every sickness and every plague that is not written in the Book of this Law, YHWH will bring upon you until you are destroyed.

62 And you? shall be left few men, instead of which you? were as stars of the heavens in multitude, because you would not listen to the voice of YHWH your God.

63 And it shall come to pass that as YHWH rejoiced over you? to do good to you? and multiply you?, so YHWH will rejoice over you? to destroy you? and bring you? to nothing, and you? shall be plucked from off the land that you are going there to possess.

64 And YHWH will scatter you among all the peoples, from the end of the earth and to the end of the earth, and there you shall serve other gods—which neither you nor your fathers have known—wood and stone.

65 And among those nations you shall not find rest, nor shall you have a resting place for the sole of your foot. And there YHWH will give to you a trembling heart, and failing eyes, and anguish of soul.

66 And your life shall be hanging in doubt before you, and you shall dread night and day, and have no assurance of life.

67 In the morning you shall say, ‘Would that evening be granted!’ And at the evening you shall say, ‘Would that morning be granted!’ Because of the dread of your heart that you dread, and because of the sight of your eyes that you see.

68 And YHWH will take you back to Egypt in ships by the way of which I said to you, never will you add again to see it, and you? will sell yourselves there to your enemies for menservants and for maidservants, and no one will buy you.”