^17 (A)They shall eat up your harvest and your food;
    they shall eat up your sons and your daughters;
they shall eat up your flocks and your herds;
    they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees;
your ^(B)fortified cities in which you trust
    they shall beat down with the sword.”

⁸ The Lord has sworn ^(A)by his right hand
    and by his mighty arm:
“I will not again give ^(B)your grain
    to be food for your enemies,
^(C)and foreigners shall not drink your wine
    for which you have laboured;
⁹ but ^(D)those who garner it shall eat it
    and praise the Lord,
and ^(E)those who gather it shall drink it
    in the courts of my sanctuary.”^[a]