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for your sins. Your punishment will be more horrible than anything I've ever done or will ever do again. 10 (A) Parents will be so desperate for food that they will eat their own children, and children will eat their parents. Those who survive this horror will be scattered in every direction.

11 Your sins have disgusted me and made my temple unfit as a place to worship me. So I swear by my own life that I will cut you down[a] and show you no pity.

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  1. 5.11 cut you down: Or “turn my back on you.”

Because of all your detestable idols, I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again.(A) 10 Therefore in your midst parents will eat their children, and children will eat their parents.(B) I will inflict punishment on you and will scatter all your survivors to the winds.(C) 11 Therefore as surely as I live,(D) declares the Sovereign(E) Lord, because you have defiled my sanctuary(F) with all your vile images(G) and detestable practices,(H) I myself will shave you; I will not look on you with pity or spare you.(I)

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