therefore behold, the Lord shall bring upon you the water of the river, strong and abundant, [even] the king of the Assyrians, and his glory; and he shall come up over every valley of yours, and shall walk over every wall of yours;

and he shall take away from Judah [every] man who shall be able to lift up his head, [and everyone] able to accomplish anything; and his camp shall fill the breadth of your land, [O] Immanuel.

But [one] shall turn aside to the right hand, for he shall be hungry; and shall eat on the left, and a man shall by no means be satisfied with eating the flesh of his own arm.

A nation which you know not shall eat the produce of your land, and all your labors; and you shall be perpetually injured and crushed.

And you shall be distracted, because of the sights of your eyes which you shall see.

And you shall eat the fruit of your body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, all that He has given you, in your desperate straits and your affliction, with which your enemy shall afflict you.

so as [not] to give to one of them of the flesh of his children, whom he shall eat, because of his having nothing left him in your desperate straits, and in your affliction, with which your enemies shall afflict you in all your cities.

and her offspring that comes out between her feet, and the child which she shall bear; for she shall eat them because of the needs of all things, secretly in your desperate straits, and in your affliction, with which your enemy shall afflict you in your cities.

And the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

If I go forth into the plain, then behold the slain by the sword! And if I enter into the city, then behold the distress of famine! For priest and prophet have gone to a land which they knew not.

on the ninth day of the month, and [then] the famine was severe in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

DALETH. The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of its mouth for thirst: the little children ask for bread, and there is none to break it for them.

HE. They that feed on dainties are desolate in the streets; they that used to be nursed in scarlet have clothed themselves with dung.

TETH. The slain with the sword were better than they that were slain with hunger; they have departed, pierced through from lack of the fruits of the field.

JOD. The hands of tender hearted women have boiled their own children; they became meat for them in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

The folly of a man spoils his ways, and he blames God in his heart.

You shall not revile God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

While he was yet speaking with them, behold, a messenger came to him. And he said, Behold, this evil [is] of the Lord; why should I wait for the Lord any longer?

But put forth Your hand, and touch all that he has, and he will curse You to [Your] face.

Ah, but put forth Your hand, and touch his bones and his flesh- surely he will curse You to [Your] face!

And when much time had passed, his wife said to him, How long will you hold out, saying, [ 2:9A] Behold, I wait yet a little while, expecting the hope of my deliverance? [ 2:9B] For behold, your memorial is abolished from the earth, even your sons and daughters, the pangs and pains of my womb which I bore in vain with sorrows; [ 2:9C] and you yourself sit down to spend the nights in the open air among the corruption of worms, [ 2:9D] and I am a wanderer and a servant from place to place and house to house, waiting for the setting of the sun, that I may rest from my labors, and my pangs which now beset me: [ 2:9E] but curse the Lord, and die.

But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent from the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and of wood, which neither are able to see nor to hear nor to walk.

And they did not repent of their murders, nor of their drugs, nor of their fornication or their thefts.

And men were burned with severe burns, and men blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent to give Him glory.

They blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their ulcers, and they did not repent of their works.