52 “They shall (A)besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which the Lord your God has given you. 53 (B)You shall eat the [a]fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you. 54 The [b]sensitive and very refined man among you (C)will[c] be hostile toward his brother, toward (D)the wife of his bosom, and toward the rest of his children whom he leaves behind,

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:53 offspring
  2. Deuteronomy 28:54 Lit. tender
  3. Deuteronomy 28:54 Lit. his eye shall be evil toward

52 They will lay siege(A) to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the Lord your God is giving you.(B)

53 Because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you.(C) 54 Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children,

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