Lamentations 4:9 — Bible Verse (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.”
Lamentations 4:9 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Lamentations 4:9 in 6 Bible Translations
Read Lamentations 4:9 in the King James Version (KJV) and 5 other free, public-domain translations side by side.
Lamentations 4:9 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“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.”
Lamentations 4:9 — World English Bible
Lamentations 4:9 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“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. ”
Lamentations 4:9 — American Standard Version
Lamentations 4:9 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“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.”
Lamentations 4:9 — Young's Literal Translation
Lamentations 4:9 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“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. ”
Lamentations 4:9 — Darby Translation
Lamentations 4:9 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“They that be slaine with the sword are better, then they that are killed with hunger: for they fade away as they were striken through for the fruites of the fielde.”
Lamentations 4:9 — Geneva Bible
Lamentations 4:9 in Context — Lamentations 4
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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What Does Lamentations 4:9 Mean?
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