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"All these disasters will come on you, and they will be with you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the Lord your God and keep all the laws that he gave you.
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They will be the evidence of God's judgment on you and your descendants forever.
47
The Lord blessed you in every way, but you would not serve him with glad and joyful hearts.
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So then, you will serve the enemies that the Lord is going to send against you. You will be hungry, thirsty, and naked - in need of everything. The Lord will oppress you harshly until you are destroyed.
49
The Lord will bring against you a nation from the ends of the earth, a nation whose language you do not know. They will swoop down on you like an eagle.
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They will be ruthless and show no mercy to anyone, young or old.
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They will eat your livestock and your crops, and you will starve to death. They will not leave you any grain, wine, olive oil, cattle, or sheep; and you will die.
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They will attack every town in the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and the high, fortified walls in which you trust will fall.
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"When your enemies are besieging your towns, you will become so desperate for food that you will even eat the children that the Lord your God has given you.
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Even the most refined man of noble birth will become so desperate during the siege that he will eat some of his own children because he has no other food. He will not even give any to his brother or to the wife he loves or to any of his children who are left.