20. so that your strength will be spent in vain; your land will bear no crops, and its trees no fruit.
21. If then you continue hostile, unwilling to obey me, I will multiply my blows sevenfold, as your sins deserve.
22. I will unleash wild beasts against you, to rob you of your children and wipe out your livestock, till your population dwindles away and your roads become deserted.
23. If, with all this, you still do not accept my discipline and continue hostile to me,
24. I, too, will continue to be hostile to you and I, for my part, will smite you for your sins sevenfold.
25. I will bring against you the sword, the avenger of my covenant. Though you then huddle together in your cities, I will send pestilence among you, till you are delivered to the enemy.
26. When I break your staff of bread, ten women will need but one oven for baking your bread, and they shall dole it out to you by weight; and though you eat, you shall not be satisfied.
27. If, despite all this, you disobey and continue hostile to me,
28. I will continue in my hostile rage toward you, and I myself will discipline you for your sins sevenfold,
29. till you begin to eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.
30. I will demolish your high places, overthrow your incense stands, and cast your corpses upon the corpses of your idols. In my loathing of you,
31. I will lay waste your cities and desolate your sanctuaries, refusing your sweet-smelling offerings.
32. So devastated will I leave the land that your enemies who come to live there will stand aghast at the sight of it.
33. And you I will scatter among the nations at the point of my drawn sword, leaving your countryside desolate and your cities deserted.
34. Then shall the land, during the time it lies waste, make up its lost sabbaths, while you are in the land of your enemies; then shall the land have rest and make up for its sabbaths
35. during all the time that it lies desolate, enjoying the rest that you would not let it have on your sabbaths when you lived there.