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51 Its army[a] will consume the offspring of your animals and the produce of your soil until you are exterminated. They[b] will leave you without your grain, wine, oil, the increase of your cattle, and the lamb of your flock, until you are completely destroyed. 52 They’ll[c] besiege all your cities until your high and fortified walls in which you have trusted collapse throughout the land. Indeed, they will besiege all your cities, which the Lord your God gave you.”

Cannibalism

53 “You’ll eat your own children[d]—the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God gave you—on account of the siege and the distress with which your enemy will oppress you.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:51 Heb. lacks army
  2. Deuteronomy 28:51 Lit. it
  3. Deuteronomy 28:52 Lit. it
  4. Deuteronomy 28:53 Lit. eat the fruit of your womb