26. I will cut off your food supply, so that ten women will need only one oven to bake all the bread they have. They will ration it out, and when you have eaten it all, you will still be hungry.
27. “If after all this you still continue to defy me and refuse to obey me,
28. then in my anger I will turn on you and again make your punishment seven times worse than before.
29. Your hunger will be so great that you will eat your own children.
30. I will destroy your places of worship on the hills, tear down your incense altars, and throw your dead bodies on your fallen idols. In utter disgust
31. I will turn your cities into ruins, destroy your places of worship, and refuse to accept your sacrifices.
32. I will destroy your land so completely that the enemies who occupy it will be shocked at the destruction.
33. I will bring war on you and scatter you in foreign lands. Your land will be deserted, and your cities left in ruins.
34-35. Then the land will enjoy the years of complete rest that you would not give it; it will lie abandoned and get its rest while you are in exile in the land of your enemies.
36. “I will make those of you who are in exile so terrified that the sound of a leaf blowing in the wind will make you run. You will run as if you were being pursued in battle, and you will fall when there is no enemy near you.
37. You will stumble over one another when no one is chasing you, and you will be unable to fight against any enemy.
38. You will die in exile, swallowed up by the land of your enemies.
39. The few of you who survive in the land of your enemies will waste away because of your own sin and the sin of your ancestors.