Jeremiah 21:7

The Hebrew form of the v. is evidently an expansion. The LXX read "from the famine into the hand of those that seek, etc.," omitting the intermediate words.

the pestilence This would be a natural consequence of the overcrowding of the city on account of the siege.

with the edge of the sword lit. according to the mouth of the sword, i.e. relentlessly, without quarter.