⁴⁹Yahweh will raise up against you a nation from far off, from the end of the earth, attacking as the eagle swoops down, a nation whose language you will not understand,^v ⁵⁰a grim-faced nation^w who does not show respect^x to the old and the young and does not show pity. ⁵¹And it^y shall consume the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground until you are destroyed,^z and who will not leave for you any grain, wine, and olive oil, calves of your herds,^a and lambs of^b your flock until it has destroyed you.^c ⁵²And it shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls fall,^d which you are trusting in^e throughout your land;^f and it shall besiege you in all of your towns in all of your land that Yahweh your God has given to you. ⁵³And 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. ⁵⁴The most refined and the very sensitive^h man among you shall be mean with his brotherⁱ and against his beloved wife^j and against the rest^k of his children that he has left over, ⁵⁵by 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. ⁵⁶The 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, ⁵⁷and 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

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Footnotes

vLiterally “a nation who not you will understand its language”
wLiterally “a nation fierce/determined of face”
xLiterally “who not lifts up faces”
yThat is, the invading nation
zLiterally “until your destroying”
aLiterally “what is dropped of your herds”
bLiterally “the offspring of small animals”
cLiterally “until his to destroy you”
dLiterally “until the coming down of your walls, high and fortified”
eHebrew “in them,” which is redundant
fLiterally “in all of your land”
gLiterally “in siege and in distress”
hOr “kindly disposed”
iLiterally “shall be bad/evil his eye against his brother”
jLiterally “against the wife of his lap”
kOr “remainder”
lLiterally “from giving”
mLiterally “in the siege and distress”
nOr “would”
oLiterally “shall be bad her eye against the husband of her lap”
pLiterally “the going out”
qLiterally “in the siege and in the distress”
rLiterally “gates”