Lamentations 4:9

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

Better are the wounded ones by the sword than the ones slain by famine, those who flow away, pierced because the produce of my fields failed.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:3

On the ninth of the month, when the famine was severe in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land,

Exodus 16:3

And the sons of Israel said to them, Would that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, in our sitting by the fleshpots, in our eating bread to satisfaction. For you have brought us out into this wilderness to cause all this assembly to die with hunger.

Isaiah 22:2

Crashings fill the noisy city, the joyous city. Your slain ones are not slain by the sword, and not dying in battle.

Jeremiah 16:4

They shall die of deaths of diseases; they shall not be mourned and not shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the face of the earth. And they will end by the sword and by famine, and their bodies shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth.

Ezekiel 24:23

And your turbans shall be on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You shall not wail nor weep, but you shall rot away in your iniquities, and each man groan to his brother.

Ezekiel 33:10

And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, This you have spoken, saying, Surely our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we are rotting in them; and then shall we live?

Ezekiel 4:16

And He said to me, Son of man, behold, I am breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem. And they shall eat bread by weight, and with anxiety. And they shall drink water by measure, and in horror,

Ezekiel 7:15

The sword is outside, and the plague, and the famine are inside. He who is in the field shall die with the sword. And he who is in the city, famine and plague shall devour him.

Leviticus 26:39

And of those who are left of you, they shall putrefy in their iniquity, in the lands of your enemies; and also in the iniquities of their fathers, they shall putrefy with them.

Deuteronomy 28:51

And he shall eat the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of your land, until you are destroyed. He shall not leave to you grain, new wine, and oil, increase of your oxen, or young ones of your flock, until he has destroyed you.