Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.
Therefore ... will I make thee sick in smiting thee - (Leviticus 26:16, to which, perhaps, the allusion here is, as in Micah 6:15, "Thou shalt sow but thou shalt not reap;" Psalms 107:17-18, "Fools, because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat, and they draw near unto the gates of death;" Jeremiah 13:13).