2 Esdras 15:56-58

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⁵⁶ As you will do to my chosen people, says the Lord, so God will do to you and will hand you over to adversities. ⁵⁷ Your children shall die of hunger, and you shall fall by the sword; your cities shall be wiped out, and all your people who are in the open country shall fall by the sword. ⁵⁸ Those who are in the mountains and highlands^[a] shall perish of hunger, and they shall eat their own flesh in hunger for bread and drink their own blood in thirst for water.^(A)