57
Your children shall die of hunger, and you shall fall by the sword, and your cities shall be wiped out, and all your people who are in the open country shall fall by the sword.
58
And those who are in the mountains and highlands shall perish of hunger, and they shall eat their own flesh in hunger for bread and drink their own blood in thirst for water.
59
Unhappy above all others, you shall come and suffer fresh afflictions.
60
And as they pass they shall wreck the hateful city, and shall destroy a part of your land and abolish a portion of your glory, as they return from devastated Babylon.
61
And you shall be broken down by them like stubble, and they shall be like fire to you.
62
And they shall devour you and your cities, your land and your mountains; they shall burn with fire all your forests and your fruitful trees.
63
They shall carry your children away captive, and shall plunder your wealth, and abolish the glory of your countenance."
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.