49 (A)The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, (B)as the eagle swoops down; a nation whose language you will not understand, 50 a nation [a]with a defiant attitude, who will (C)have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young. 51 Furthermore, it will eat the [b]offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed; a nation that will leave you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the newborn of your cattle or the young of your flock, until they have eliminated you. 52 (D)And it will besiege you in all your [c]towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land, and it will besiege you in all your [d]towns throughout your land which the Lord your God has given you. 53 (E)Then you will eat the [e]offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, during the siege and the hardship by which your enemy will [f]oppress you. 54 The man who is [g]refined and very delicate among you [h]will be hostile toward his brother, toward the wife [i]he cherishes, and toward the rest of his children who are left, 55 so that he will not give even one of them any of the flesh of his children which he will eat, since he has nothing else left, during the siege and the hardship by which your enemy will [j]oppress you in all your [k]towns. 56 (F)The [l]refined and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and tenderness, [m]will be hostile toward the husband [n]she cherishes and toward her son and daughter, 57 and toward her afterbirth that comes from between her [o]legs, and toward her children to whom she gives birth, because (G)she will eat them secretly for lack of anything else, during the siege and the hardship with which your enemy will [p]oppress you in your [q]towns.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:50 Lit defiant-faced
  2. Deuteronomy 28:51 Lit fruit
  3. Deuteronomy 28:52 Lit gates
  4. Deuteronomy 28:52 Lit gates
  5. Deuteronomy 28:53 Lit fruit of your womb
  6. Deuteronomy 28:53 Or torment
  7. Deuteronomy 28:54 Or spoiled and pampered
  8. Deuteronomy 28:54 Lit his eye will be evil toward
  9. Deuteronomy 28:54 Lit of his breast
  10. Deuteronomy 28:55 Or torment
  11. Deuteronomy 28:55 Lit gates
  12. Deuteronomy 28:56 Or spoiled and pampered
  13. Deuteronomy 28:56 Lit her eye shall be evil toward
  14. Deuteronomy 28:56 Lit of her breast
  15. Deuteronomy 28:57 Lit feet
  16. Deuteronomy 28:57 Or torment
  17. Deuteronomy 28:57 Lit gates

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