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Jehovah will bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the
earth, as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
50 a nation of fierce countenance, that shall not regard the person of
the old, nor show favor to the young,
51 and shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground,
until thou be destroyed; that also shall not leave thee grain, new wine,
or oil, the increase of thy cattle, or the young of thy flock, until they
have caused thee to perish.
52 And they shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fortified
walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land; and
they shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which
Jehovah 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, whom Jehovah thy God hath given thee, in the siege
and in the distress wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee.
54 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 whom he hath remaining;
55 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children
whom he shall eat, because he hath nothing left him, in the siege and
in the distress wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in all thy gates.
56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to
set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness,
her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her
son, and toward her daughter,
57 and toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and
toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want
of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress wherewith thine
enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written
in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, JEHOVAH
THY GOD;
59 then Jehovah will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy
seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses,
and of long continuance.
60 And he will bring upon thee again all the diseases of Egypt, which
thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.
61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the
book of this law, them will Jehovah bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of
heaven for multitude; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of
Jehovah thy God.
63 And it shall come to pass, that, as Jehovah rejoiced over you to do
you good, and to multiply you, so Jehovah will rejoice over you to cause
you to perish, and to destroy you; and ye shall be plucked from off the
land whither thou goest in to possess it.
64 And Jehovah will scatter thee among all peoples, from the one end of
the earth even unto the other end of the earth; and there thou shalt serve
other gods, which thou hast not known, thou nor thy fathers, even wood
and stone.
65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, and there shall be
no rest for the sole of thy foot: but Jehovah will give thee there a trembling
heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul;
66 and thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear night
and day, and shalt have no assurance of thy life.
67 In the morning thou shalt say, Would it were even! and at even thou
shalt say, Would it were morning! for the fear of thy heart which thou
shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
68 And Jehovah will bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way
whereof I said unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye
shall sell yourselves unto your enemies for bondmen and for bondwomen,
and no man shall buy you.