²⁷ ‘Yet if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but act with hostility against Me, ²⁸ then ^(A)I will act with wrathful hostility against you, and I for My part will punish you seven times for your sins. ²⁹ Further, ^(B)you will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters. ³⁰ I then ^(C)will destroy your high places, and cut down your ^(D)incense altars, and ^[a]pile your ^[b]remains on the ^[c]remains of your idols, for My soul will loathe you. ³¹ I will turn your cities into ^(E)ruins as well and make your ^(F)sanctuaries desolate, and I will not ^(G)smell your soothing aromas. ³² And I will make ^(H)the land desolate ^(I)so that your enemies who settle in it will be appalled at it. ³³ You, however, I ^(J)will scatter among the nations, and I will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become ruins.

³⁴ ‘^(K)Then the land will restore its Sabbaths all the days of the desolation, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land will rest and restore its Sabbaths. ³⁵ All the days of its desolation it will have the rest which it did not have on your Sabbaths, while you were living on it. ³⁶ As for those among you who are left, I will also bring ^(L)despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a scattered leaf will chase them, and even when no one is pursuing they will flee ^[d]as though from the sword, and they will fall. ^37 (M)They will then stumble over each other as if running from the sword, although no one is pursuing; and you will have no strength to stand before your enemies. ³⁸ Instead, ^(N)you will perish among the nations, and your enemies’ land will consume you. ^39 (O)So those of you who may be left will rot away because of their wrongdoing in the lands of your enemies; and also because of the wrongdoing of their forefathers they will rot away with them.

²⁵ “When you father children and have ^[a]grandchildren, and you grow old in the land, and you ^(A)act corruptly, and ^(B)make ^[b]an idol in the form of anything, and ^(C)do what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God to provoke Him to anger, ²⁶ I ^(D)call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today, that you will ^(E)certainly perish quickly from the land where you are going over the Jordan to take possession of it. You will not ^[c]live long on it, but will be utterly destroyed. ²⁷ The Lord will ^(F)scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord drives you. ^28 (G)There you will serve gods, the work of human hands, ^(H)wood and stone, ^(I)which neither see nor hear, nor eat nor smell anything.

⁶³ And it will come about that, just as the Lord ^(A)rejoiced over you to be good to you, and make you numerous, so will the Lord ^(B)rejoice over you to wipe you out and destroy you; and you will be ^(C)torn away from the land which you are entering to possess. ⁶⁴ Furthermore, the Lord will ^(D)scatter you among all the peoples, from one end of the earth to ^[a]the other; and there you will ^(E)serve other gods, made of wood and stone, which you and your fathers have not known. ^65 (F)Among those nations you will find no peace, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there ^(G)the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul.