27. Then if you don't stop rebelling,
28. I'll really get furious and punish you terribly for your sins!
29. In fact, you will be so desperate for food that you will eat your own children.
30. I'll destroy your shrines and tear down your incense altars, leaving your dead bodies piled on top of your idols. And you will be disgusting to me.
31. I'll wipe out your towns and your places of worship and will no longer be pleased with the smell of your sacrifices.
32. Your land will become so desolate that even your enemies who settle there will be shocked when they see it.
33. After I destroy your towns and ruin your land with war, I'll scatter you among the nations.
34-35. While you are prisoners in foreign lands, your own land will enjoy years of rest and refreshment, as it should have done each seventh year when you lived there.
36-37. In the land of your enemies, you will tremble at the rustle of a leaf, as though it were a sword. And you will become so weak that you will stumble and fall over each other, even when no one is chasing you.
38. Many of you will die in foreign lands,
39. and others of you will waste away in sorrow as the result of your sins and the sins of your ancestors.
40-41. Then suppose you realize that I turned against you and brought you to the land of your enemies because both you and your ancestors had stubbornly sinned against me. If you humbly confess what you have done and start living right,
42. I'll keep the promise I made to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will bless your land
43. and let it rest during the time that you are in a foreign country, paying for your rebellion against me and my laws.
44. No matter what you have done, I am still the Lord your God, and I will never completely reject you or become absolutely disgusted with you there in the land of your enemies.
45. While nations watched, I rescued your ancestors from Egypt so that I would be their God. Yes, I am your Lord, and I will never forget our agreement.
46. Moses was on Mount Sinai when the Lord gave him these laws and teachings for the people of Israel.