Deu 28:53 | KD | STEP | It would so distress Israel, that in their distress and siege they would be driven to eat the fruit of their body, and the flesh of their own children (with regard to the fulfilment of this, see the remarks on ). - This horrible distress is depicted still more fully in , where the words, “ in the siege and in the straitness ,” etc. ( ), are repeated as a refrain , with their appalling sound, in and Deu 28:57.

‏ Deuteronomy 28:53

It would so distress Israel, that in their distress and siege they would be driven to eat the fruit of their body, and the flesh of their own children (with regard to the fulfilment of this, see the remarks on Lev 26:29). - This horrible distress is depicted still more fully in Deu 28:54-57, where the words, “in the siege and in the straitness,” etc. (Deu 28:53), are repeated as a refrain, with their appalling sound, in Deu 28:55 and Deu 28:57.