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51 They[a] will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds,[b] or lambs of your flocks[c] until they have destroyed you. 52 They will besiege all of your villages[d] until all of your high and fortified walls collapse—those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the Lord your God has given you. 53 You will then eat your own offspring,[e] the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege[f] by which your enemies will constrict you.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:51 tn Heb “it” (so NRSV), a collective singular referring to the invading nation (several times in this verse and v. 52).
  2. Deuteronomy 28:51 tn Heb “increase of herds.”
  3. Deuteronomy 28:51 tn Heb “growth of flocks.”
  4. Deuteronomy 28:52 tn Heb “gates,” also in vv. 55, 57.
  5. Deuteronomy 28:53 tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NRSV); NASB “the offspring of your own body.”
  6. Deuteronomy 28:53 tn Heb “siege and stress.”