56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and sensitivity,³ will refuse to the husband of her bosom, and to her son and her daughter,  ‡

57 her placenta which comes out ^afrom between her feet and her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of everything in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates.  ‡

59 then the Lord will bring upon you and your descendants ^aextraordinary plagues—great and prolonged plagues—and serious and prolonged sicknesses.  ‡

60 Moreover He will bring back on you all ^athe diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you.  ‡