Lamentations 4:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Those slain by the sword are better off than those slain by hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.

Cross References

Ezekiel 24:23

Your turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not lament or weep  but will waste away  because of your iniquities and will groan to one another.

Leviticus 26:39

Those  who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away because of their iniquity; they will also waste away because of their ancestors’ iniquities along with theirs.

Ezekiel 33:10

‘Now as for you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, “You have said this: ‘Our transgressions and our sins are heavy on us, and we are wasting away because of them!  How then can we survive? ’ ”

Jeremiah 16:4

They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried but will be like manure on the soil’s surface.  They will be finished off by sword and famine. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land.

Exodus 16:3

The Israelites said to them, ‘If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by pots of meat and ate all the bread we wanted. Instead, you brought us into this wilderness to make this whole assembly die of hunger! ’

2 Kings 25:3

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that the common people had no food.

Deuteronomy 28:51

They will eat the offspring of your livestock and your land’s produce until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, fresh oil, young of your herds, or newborn of your flocks until they cause you to perish.

Isaiah 22:2

The noisy city, the jubilant town, is filled with celebration. Your dead did not die by the sword; they were not killed in battle.

Ezekiel 4:16

He said to me, ‘Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem.  They will anxiously eat food they have weighed out and in dread drink rationed water

Ezekiel 7:15

The sword is on the outside; plague and famine are on the inside. Whoever is in the field will die by the sword, and famine and plague will devour whoever is in the city.