Pour out ... sword - literally, “pour them out upon the hands of the sword, i. e., give them up to the sword.”
Put to death - Rather, slain of death. The prophet’s phrase leaves it entirely indefinite in what way the men are to die.
Related Commentaries of Jeremiah 18:21
Jeremiah 18:21
21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.