1. “If you obey the Lord your God and faithfully keep all his commands that I am giving you today, he will make you greater than any other nation on earth.
2. Obey the Lord your God and all these blessings will be yours:
3. “The Lord will bless your towns and your fields.
4. “The Lord will bless you with many children, with abundant crops, and with many cattle and sheep.
5. “The Lord will bless your corn crops and the food you prepare from them.
6. “The Lord will bless everything you do.
7. “The Lord will defeat your enemies when they attack you. They will attack from one direction, but they will run from you in all directions.
8. “The Lord your God will bless your work and fill your barns with corn. He will bless you in the land that he is giving you.
9. “If you obey the Lord your God and do everything he commands, he will make you his own people, as he has promised.
54-55. Even the most refined man of noble birth will become so desperate during the siege that he will eat some of his own children because he has no other food. He will not even give any to his brother or to the wife he loves or to any of his children who are left.
56-57. Even the most refined woman of noble birth, so rich that she has never had to walk anywhere, will behave in the same way. When the enemy besieges her town, she will become so desperate for food that she will secretly eat her newborn child and the afterbirth as well. She will not share them with the husband she loves or with any of her children.