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Lamentations 4:9

WEB

9Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; for these pine away, stricken through, for lack of the fruits of the field.

KJV

9They that be slain[+] with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.

BSB

9Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.

FBV

9Those killed by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who slowly waste away in agony because the fields produce no crops.

Extra References

Ezekiel 24:23

23Your turbans will be on your heads, and your sandals on your feet. You won’t mourn or weep; but you will pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.

Leviticus 26:39

39Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.

Jeremiah 16:4

4“They will die grievous deaths. They will not be lamented, neither will they be buried. They will be as dung on the surface of the ground. They will be consumed by the sword and by famine. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.”

Ezekiel 33:10

10“You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: ‘You say this, “Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them. How then can we live?”’