Lamentations 4:9 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁹ 7 Ain. While we were yet standing, our eyes failed, expecting help for us in vain, when we looked attentively towards a nation that was not able to save.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ 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.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ 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.

Common English Bible

⁹ Things were better for those stabbed by the sword than for those stabbed by famine— those who bled away, pierced, lacking food from the field.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ TETH. It was better for those slain by the sword, than for those put to death by famine. For these waste away, being consumed by the sterility of the land.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ Teth. It was better with them that were slain by the sword than with them that died with hunger: for these pined away being consumed for want of the fruits of the earth.

Lamentations 4:9 Cross References

2 Kings 25:3

In the fifth month, the seventh day of the month, that is, the nineteenth year of the king of Babylon, came Nabuzardan commander of the army, a servant of the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem.

Exodus 16:3

And Moses and Aaron said to the children of Israel: In the evening you shall know that the Lord hath brought you forth out of the land of Egypt:

Isaiah 22:2

0 And have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and broken down houses to fortify the wall.

Jeremiah 16:4

2 And you also have done worse than your fathers: for behold every one of you walketh after the perverseness of his evil heart, so as not to hearken to me.

Ezekiel 24:23

Therefore will I deliver thee to the men of the east for an inheritance, and they shall place their sheepcotes in thee, and shall set up their tents in thee: they shall eat thy fruits: and they shall drink thy milk.

Ezekiel 33:10

8 For when the just shall depart from his justice, and commit iniquities, he shall die in them.

Ezekiel 4:16

Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you have surpassed the Gentiles that are round about you, and have not walked in my commandments, and have not kept my judgments, and have not done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you:

Ezekiel 7:15

3 Make a shutting up: for the land is full of the judgment of blood, and the city is full of iniquity.

Leviticus 26:39

4 And yet for all that when they were in the land of their enemies, I did not cast them off altogether, neither did I so despise them that they should be quite consumed, and I should make void my covenant with them. For I am the Lord their God.

Deuteronomy 28:51

6 The tender and delicate woman, that could not go upon the ground, nor set down her foot for over much niceness and tenderness, will envy her husband who lieth in her bosom, the flesh of her son, and of her daughter,