“45. Moreover, all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed: because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee. “46. And they shall be upon thee for a _sign_, and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.” (_For a sign_ אוֹת _oth_, _a mark_, _sign_, _&c._ It may be noted that this word is used in _Gen._ iv. 15: “And the Lord set a _mark_ upon Cain,” אוֹת _oth_, _mark_, _sign_, _&c._) “47. Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart for the abundance of all _things_. “48. Therefore shalt thou _serve_ (עָבַדְתָּ _be a slave to_) thine enemies which the Lord shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all _things_: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee. “49. The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, _as swift_ as the eagle flieth, a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; “50. A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favour to the young: “51. And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which _also_ shall not leave thee _either_ corn, wine, or oil, _or_ the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee. “52. And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land which the Lord thy God hath given thee. “53. And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters which the Lord thy God hath given thee, in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee: “54. So _that_ the man _that_ is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave. “55. So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates. “56. The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, “57. And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all _things_ secretly in the siege and straitness wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.