25. I will bring on you an avenging sword, a covenant vengeance. Although you will gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you and you will be given into enemy hands.
26. When I break off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.
27. “‘If in spite of this you do not obey me but walk in hostility against me,
28. I will walk in hostile rage against you and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins.
29. You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.
30. I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. I will abhor you.
31. I will lay your cities waste and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas.
32. I myself will make the land desolate and your enemies who live in it will be appalled.
33. I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.
34. “‘Then the land will make up for its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate while you are in the land of your enemies; then the land will rest and make up its Sabbaths.
35. All the days of the desolation it will have the rest it did not have on your Sabbaths when you lived on it.
36. “‘As for the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and fall down even though there is no pursuer.
37. They will stumble over each other as those who flee before a sword, though there is no pursuer, and there will be no one to take a stand for you before your enemies.
38. You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will consume you.
39. “‘As for the ones who remain among you, they will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and they will also rot away because of their ancestors’ iniquities which are with them.
40. However, when they confess their iniquity and their ancestors’ iniquity which they committed by trespassing against me, by which they also walked in hostility against me
41. (and I myself will walk in hostility against them and bring them into the land of their enemies), and then their uncircumcised hearts become humbled and they make up for their iniquity,