Lamentations 4:9

Modern English Version

Those killed by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, for they pine away, stricken for want of the fruits of the field.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:3

On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was severe in the city, and there was no food for the people of the land.

Exodus 16:3

Now the Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full, for you have brought us forth into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

Isaiah 22:2

you who were full of noise, a tumultuous city, a joyous city? Your slain are not slain with the sword, nor did they die in battle.

Jeremiah 16:4

They will die of deadly diseases. They will not be lamented, nor shall they be buried. But they will be as dung upon the face of the ground. And they will be consumed by the sword and by famine. And their carcasses will be food for the fowl of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.

Ezekiel 24:23

Your turbans shall be on your heads, and your shoes on your feet. You shall not mourn or weep. But you shall pine away for your iniquities and groan toward one another.

Ezekiel 33:10

Therefore as for you, son of man, say to the house of Israel: Thus you have spoken, saying, “Surely our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we pine away in them. How should we then live?”

Ezekiel 4:16

Moreover He said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety and drink water by measure and with horror,

Ezekiel 7:15

The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within. He who is in the field shall die by the sword; and he who is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.

Leviticus 26:39

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

Deuteronomy 28:51

They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land, until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, wine, or oil, or the offspring of your herd or the offspring of your sheep, until they have destroyed you.