20. You will work hard for nothing because your land will produce no crops and the trees will produce no fruit.
21. “If you resist and don’t listen to me, I will increase the punishment for your sins seven times.
22. I will send wild animals among you. They will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle, and make you so few that your roads will be deserted.
23. “If this discipline does not help and you still resist,
24. then I, too, will resist you. I will punish you seven times for your sins.
25. I will bring war on you to get revenge for my promise ⌊that you rejected⌋. When you gather in your cities, I will send plagues on you and you will fall under the control of your enemy.
26. I will destroy your food supply. Ten women will need only one oven to prepare your food. You will eat and go away hungry.
27. “If in spite of this you do not listen to me and still resist me,
28. I will fiercely resist you. I will discipline you seven times for your sins.
29. You will eat the bodies of your sons and daughters.