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Lamentations 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.

KJV

Melius fuit occisis gladio quam interfectis fame, quoniam isti extabuerunt consumpti a sterilitate terræ.

Vulgate

Τήθ. Καλοὶ ἦσαν οἱ τραυματίαι ῥομφαίας ἢ οἱ τραυματίαι λιμοῦ· ἐπορεύθησαν ἐκκεκεντημένοι ἀπὸ γενημάτων ἀγρῶν.

LXX

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.

ASV

טוֹבִ֤ים הָיוּ֙ חַלְלֵי חֶ֔רֶב מֵֽ/חַלְלֵ֖י רָעָ֑ב שֶׁ֣/הֵ֤ם יָז֨וּבוּ֙ מְדֻקָּרִ֔ים מִ/תְּנוּבֹ֖ת שָׂדָֽי

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

הֵ֖מָּה
hmh
pronoun · 560×
זָבַ֥ת
zbt
verb · 42×
חֶ֖רֶב
chrb
noun · 409×
חַלְלֵי
chlly
adjective · 92×
ט֣וֹב
tvb
verb · 562×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
נִי
ny
verb · 11×
רָעָ֖ב
r'b
noun · 101×
שָּׂדֶ֔ה
shdh
noun · 334×
תְּנוּבֹ֣ת
tnvbt
noun · 5×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Exod 16:3 — And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brou
  • Ezek 24:23 — And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
  • Isa 36:12 — But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own
  • Jer 16:4 — They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famin
  • Jer 22:10 — Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
  • Lam 2:11 — Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets o
  • Lev 26:39 — And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.