20. so that your strength will be spent for no reason: your land will not produce its yield, and the trees of the land won’t produce their fruit.
21. If you continue to oppose me and are unwilling to obey me, I will strike you for your sins seven more times:
22. I will send wild animals against you, and they will kill your children and destroy your livestock. They will make you so few in number that your roads will seem deserted.
23. If, despite these things, you still do not accept my discipline and continue to oppose me,
24. then I will continue to oppose you. I will strike you for your sins seven more times:
25. I will bring the sword against you, avenging the breaking of the covenant. If you retreat into your cities, I will send a plague on you, and you will be handed over to the enemy.
26. When I destroy your food supply, ten women will bake bread in a single oven, and they will ration out bread by weight. You will eat but will never get full.
27. If, despite all this, you still do not obey me and continue to oppose me,
28. then I will continue to oppose you—with anger! I will punish you for your sins seven more times:
29. You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.
30. I will eliminate your shrines, chop down your incense altars, and pile your dead bodies on the dead bodies of your idols. I will despise you.
31. I will turn your cities into ruins, I will devastate your sanctuaries, and I will not smell the soothing smells of your offerings.