Lamentations 4:9

King James Version (KJV)

They 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.

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7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:

8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

9 They 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.

10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

11 The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.

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Lamentations 4:9 in every translation

KJV King James Version: They 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.
WEB World English Bible: Those 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.
BSB Berean Standard Bible: Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.
ASV American Standard Version: They that are slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.
YLT Young's Literal Translation: Better have been the pierced of a sword Than the pierced of famine, For these flow away, pierced through, Without the increase of the field.
DBY Darby Translation: The slain with the sword are happier than the slain with hunger; for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
WBS Webster Bible: They that are slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.