The Sword: Often Threatened As a Punishment

And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.

Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man.