53. You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.
54. The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining;
55. so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in all your gates.
56. The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband that she loves, toward her son, toward her daughter,
57. toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of all things, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates.
58. If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, THE Lord YOUR GOD;
59. then the Lord will make your plagues fearful, and the plagues of your offspring, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and of long duration.
60. He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they will cling to you.
61. Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, the Lord will bring them on you, until you are destroyed.
62. You will be left few in number, even though you were as the stars of the sky for multitude; because you didn’t listen to the Lord your God’s voice.
63. It will happen that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so the Lord will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you. You will be plucked from the land that you are going in to possess.
64. The Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. There you will serve other gods, which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.
65. Among these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but the Lord will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul.