2 Esdras 15:57-59

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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) 59} Unhappy above all others, you shall come and suffer fresh miseries.