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.


In Context

6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.

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 sticks 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 has accomplished his fury; he has poured out his fierce anger, and has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has devoured the foundations thereof.

Lamentations 4:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:9[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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:9Those killed by the sword are better off than those who die of famine; racked with hunger, they waste away for lack of food from the field.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:9Teth. It was better with them that were slain by the sword, than with them that died with hunger: for these pined away being consumed for want of the fruits of the earth.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:9They 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:9The 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:9They 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:9They 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:9Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:9Better have been the pierced of a sword Than the pierced of famine, For these flow away, pierced through, Without the increase of the field.