⁴⁹The Lord will bring against you a nation from the ends of the earth, a nation whose language you do not know. They will swoop down on you like an eagle. ⁵⁰They will be ruthless and show no mercy to anyone, young or old. ⁵¹They will eat your livestock and your crops, and you will starve to death. They will not leave you any corn, wine, olive oil, cattle, or sheep; and you will die. ⁵²They will attack every town in the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and the high, fortified walls in which you trust will fall.

⁵³“When your enemies are besieging your towns, you will become so desperate for food that you will even eat the children that the Lord your God has given you. ^54–55Even the most refined man of noble birth will become so desperate during the siege that he will eat some of his own children because he has no other food. He will not even give any to his brother or to the wife he loves or to any of his children who are left. ^56–57Even the most refined woman of noble birth, so rich that she has never had to walk anywhere, will behave in the same way. When the enemy besieges her town, she will become so desperate for food that she will secretly eat her newborn child and the afterbirth as well. She will not share them with the husband she loves or with any of her children.

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