54-55. Because of hunger, a man who had been gentle and kind will eat his own children and refuse to share the meal with his brother or wife or with his other children.
56-57. A woman may have grown up in such luxury that she never had to put a foot on the ground. But times will be so bad that she will secretly eat both her newborn baby and the afterbirth, without sharing any with her husband or her other children.
58. You must obey everything in The Book of God's Law. Because if you don't respect the Lord,
59. he will punish you and your descendants with incurable diseases,
60. like those you were so afraid of in Egypt.
61. Remember! If the Lord decides to destroy your nation, he can use any disease or disaster, not just the ones written in The Book of God's Law.
62. There are as many of you now as the stars in the sky, but if you disobey the Lord your God, only a few of you will be left.
63. The Lord is happy to make you successful and to help your nation grow while you conquer the land. But if you disobey him, he will be just as happy to pull you up by your roots.
64. Those of you who survive will be scattered to every nation on earth, and you will have to worship stone and wood idols that never helped you or your ancestors.
65. You will be restless—always longing for home, but never able to return.
66. You will live in constant fear of death.
67. Each morning you will wake up to such terrible sights that you will say, “I wish it were night!” But at night you will be terrified and say, “I wish it were day!”