²⁷ “‘If in spite of this you still do not listen to me^(A) but continue to be hostile toward me, ²⁸ then in my anger^(B) I will be hostile^(C) toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over.^{(D) 29} You will eat^(E) the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.^(F)

⁵² They will lay siege^(A) to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the Lord your God is giving you.^(B)

⁵³ Because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you.^{(C) 54} Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children, ⁵⁵ and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities.^{(D) 56} The most gentle and sensitive^(E) woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter^{(F) 57} the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For in her dire need she intends to eat them^(G) secretly because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of your cities.