In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
Power - (Jeremiah 18:21 - "Famine ... force," literally, hands, "of the sword:" the two chief sources of public calamity.) [Hebrew, hands.]
Of the sword - (Ezekiel 35:5, margin). Hands are given to the sword personified as a living agent. 21. "Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them, secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongue" (Psalms 31:20); "Let us smite him with the tongue" (Jeremiah 18:18): so here "scourge of the tongue" (Psalms 72:9). There is a play of sounds in Hebrew shot (scourge), shod (destruction, or rather, "de vacation" - namely, such as comes from the agencies of nature; cf Job 5:22-23).