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.”
King James Version (KJV)
🌐 Lamentations 4:9 in 8 Translations
King James Version (KJV)English
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.
American Standard Version (ASV)English
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.
Open English Bible (OEB)English
Elberfelder Bibel (ELB)Deutsch
Die vom Schwert Erschlagenen sind glücklicher als die vom Hunger Getöteten, welche hinschmachten, durchbohrt vom Mangel an Früchten des Feldes.
Reina-Valera (RV)Español
Más dichosos fueron los muertos á cuchillo que los muertos del hambre; porque éstos murieron poco á poco por falta de los frutos de la tierra.
Bíblia Livre (BL)Português
Mais felizes foram os mortos pela espada do que os mortos pela fome; porque estes se abatem traspassados pela falta dos frutos do campo.
Nova Versão (NVA)Português
Aqueles que foram mortos pela espada foram mais felizes do aqueles que foram mortos pela fome, que se definharam, perfurados pela falta de qualquer colheita do campo.
📖 Lamentations 4:9 in Context
7Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:
8Their 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.
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.
10The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
11The 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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