Deuteronomy 28:49-57
New Catholic Bible
49 Invasion and Destruction. The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth. A nation whose language you do not understand shall swoop down like an eagle, 50 a fierce nation without respect for the old or pity for the young. 51 They shall devour the young of your cattle and the produce of your land until you have been destroyed. They will leave you no grain, wine, oil, or calves in your herds, or lambs in your flocks, until you have been annihilated. 52 They shall lay siege to all of your towns until all of the high fortified walls in which you place your trust have fallen down. He will besiege you in your towns all throughout your land, all throughout your land that the Lord, your God, has given you. 53 Because of the hunger and the suffering that your enemies bring upon you during the siege, you shall eat your own children, your sons and your daughters, whom the Lord, your God, has given you. 54 Even the most gentle and most sensitive among you shall treat his brother or the wife whom he loves or his surviving children poorly. 55 He shall not give any of them the flesh of the children that he is eating. He shall have nothing left because of the siege and the suffering the enemy has inflicted upon you in all of your cities. 56 The most gentle and sensitive woman among you, so gentle and sensitive that she would not step upon the ground with the soles of her feet, shall be hostile to the husband whom she loves and her own son and daughter. 57 She shall eat the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears secretly because of hunger during the siege and the distress that your enemy shall inflict upon you in your cities.
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