Deuteronomy 28:52-53

28:52 They will besiege all of your villages ¹  until all of your high and fortified walls collapse – those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the Lord your God has given you. 28:53 You will then eat your own offspring, ²  the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege ³  by which your enemies will constrict you.

¹ tn Heb “gates,” also in vv. 55, 57.

² tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NRSV); NASB “the offspring of your own body.”

³ tn Heb “siege and stress.”