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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