⁵³ ·Your enemy will surround you. Those people will make you starve so that [^LIn the dire position that the siege of your enemies places you] you will eat ·your own babies [^Lthe fruit of your womb], the ·bodies [^Lflesh] of the sons and daughters the Lord your God gave you. ⁵⁴ Even the most gentle and kind man among you will ·become cruel [look threateningly] to his brother, his wife ·whom he loves [^Lof his lap], and his children who ·are still alive [remain]. ⁵⁵ He will not even give them any of the flesh of his children he is eating, because it will be all he has left. ·Your enemy will surround you and make you starve [^LIn the dire position that the siege of your enemies places you] in all your ·cities [^Lgates].