⁵² That nation will besiege you in all of your cities until the high, fortified walls that you were trusting collapse throughout your land. When that nation besieges you in all of the cities throughout your whole land that the Lord your God is giving you, ⁵³ you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, because of the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.

⁵⁴ The most sensitive and refined man among you will be so begrudging against his brother, against the wife he embraces, and against any of his children who still survive,