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.

Translations

Lamentations 4:9 - Amplified Bible

Those who are slain with the sword are more fortunate than those who are the victims of hunger [slain by the famine]; for they [the hungry] pine {and} ebb away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.

Lamentations 4:9 - 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.

Lamentations 4:9 - Bible in Basic English

Those who have been put to the sword are better off than those whose death is caused by need of food; for these come to death slowly, burned up like the fruit of the field.

Lamentations 4:9 - Darby Bible

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 - English Standard Version

Happier were the victims of the sword than the victims of hunger, who wasted away, pierced by lack of the fruits of the field.

Lamentations 4:9 - 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.

Lamentations 4:9 - La Biblia de las Americas

Más dichosos son los que mueren a espada
que los que mueren de hambre,
que se consumen, extenuados,
por falta de los frutos de los campos.

Lamentations 4:9 - The Message

Better to have been killed in battle
   than killed by starvation.
Better to have died of battle wounds
   than to slowly starve to death.

Lamentations 4:9 - New American Standard Bible

Better are those slain with the sword Than those slain with hunger; For they pine away, being stricken For lack of the fruits of the field.

Lamentations 4:9 - Nueva Biblia Latinoamericana de Hoy

Más dichosos son los que mueren a espada
Que los que mueren de hambre,
Que se consumen, extenuados,
Por falta de los frutos de los campos.

Lamentations 4:9 - 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 want of the fruits of the field.

Lamentations 4:9 - Young's Living 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.

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