Bible Verses About The Sword: Often threatened as a punishment

And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.