52 (A)And it will besiege you in all your [a]towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land, and it will besiege you in all your [b]towns throughout your land which the Lord your God has given you. 53 (B)Then you will eat the [c]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 [d]oppress you. 54 The man who is [e]refined and very delicate among you [f]will be hostile toward his brother, toward the wife [g]he cherishes, and toward the rest of his children who are left,

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:52 Lit gates
  2. Deuteronomy 28:52 Lit gates
  3. Deuteronomy 28:53 Lit fruit of your womb
  4. Deuteronomy 28:53 Or torment
  5. Deuteronomy 28:54 Or spoiled and pampered
  6. Deuteronomy 28:54 Lit his eye will be evil toward
  7. Deuteronomy 28:54 Lit of his breast

52 They will lay siege(A) to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the Lord your God is giving you.(B)

53 Because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you.(C) 54 Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children,

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52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the Lord thy God hath given thee.

53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:

54 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:

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