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.
36. Those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies, I will make so fainthearted that the sound of a driven leaf will pursue them, and they shall run as if from the sword, and fall though no one pursues them;
37. stumbling over one another as if to escape a sword, while no one is after them—so helpless will you be to take a stand against your foes!
38. You shall perish among the nations, swallowed up in your enemies’ country.
39. Those of you who survive will waste away in the lands of their enemies, for their own and their ancestors’ guilt.
40. They will confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their ancestors in their treachery against me and in their continued hostility toward me,
41. so that I, too, had to be hostile to them and bring them into their enemies’ land. Then, when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they make amends for their iniquity,
42. I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac; and also my covenant with Abraham I will remember. The land, too, I will remember.
43. The land will be forsaken by them, that in its desolation without them, it may make up its sabbaths, and that they, too, may make good the debt of their guilt for having spurned my decrees and loathed my statutes.