I will send... the sword, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:25; Leviticus 26:26).
the famine. Some codices, with three early printed editions (one in margin), Aramaean, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and famine", thus completing the Figure of speech Polysyndeton.
vile figs. worthless figs. See Jeremiah 24:2.