53 And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and your daughters, whom Yahweh your God gave to you, ⌊during the siege and during the distress⌋g your enemy inflicts upon you. 54 The most refined and the very sensitiveh man among you ⌊shall be mean with his brother⌋i and ⌊against his beloved wife⌋j and against the restk of his children that he has left over, 55 ⌊by refraining from giving⌋l to even one of them any of the meat of his children that he eats, because there is not anything that is left over for him ⌊during the siege and distress⌋m that your enemy inflicts upon you. 56 The most refined and the most delicate woman among you, who shalln not venture to put the sole of her foot on the ground from being so delicate and from such gentleness, ⌊shall be mean to her beloved husband⌋o and against her son and against her daughter, 57 and even concerning her afterbirth ⌊that goes out⌋p from between her feet and also concerning her children that she bears, because she eats them for lack of anything in secret ⌊during the siege and during the distress⌋q that your enemy inflicts upon her in your ⌊towns⌋.r

58 “If ⌊you do not diligently observe⌋s all the words of this law written in this scroll by revering this glorious and awesome name, Yahweh your God, 59 then Yahweh shall overwhelm you with your plagues and the plagues of your offspring, severe plagues and lasting illnesses, grievous and enduring. 60 And he shall bring back upon you all the diseases of Egypt concerning which ⌊you were in dread⌋t ⌊because of them⌋.u 61 Also any illness and any plaguev that is not written in the scroll of this law, he shall bring them, Yahweh, upon you until you are destroyed. 62 And you shall remain ⌊only a few people⌋w in place of the fact you were formerly as the stars of heaven as far as number is concerned, because you did not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God. 63 ⌊And then⌋x as Yahweh delighted over you ⌊to make you prosperous⌋y to make you numerous, so Yahweh shall delight over you to exterminate youz and to destroy you, and so you shall be plucked from the land that you are going there to take possession of it. 64 And Yahweh shall scatter you among all the nations from one end of the earth up to the other end of the earth, and there you shall serve other gods that you have not known nora your ancestors,b gods of wood and stone. 65 And among these nations you shall not find rest, and there shall not be a resting place for the sole of your foot, and Yahweh shall give you there an anxious heart and a weakening of eyesc and a languishing of your inner self.d 66 And ⌊your life shall hang in doubt before you⌋,e and you shall be startledf night and day, and you shall not be confident of your life. 67 In the morning you shall say, ‘⌊If only it was evening⌋!’g and in the evening you shall say ‘⌊If only it was morning⌋!’h because of the dread of your heart that you shall feel, and because of the sight of your eyes that you shall see. 68 And Yahweh shall bring you back to Egypt in ships by the route that I ⌊promised⌋i to you that ‘⌊You shall not see it again⌋!’j And you shall sell yourself there to your enemies as slaves and as female slaves, but there will not be a buyer.”