Lamentations 4:9

Tree of Life Version

Better are those slain by the sword than those struck down by famine— they waste away, racked with pain, for lack of fruits of the field.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:3

On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine became so severe in the city that there was no bread for the common people.

Exodus 16:3

Bnei-Yisrael said to them, “If only we had died by the hand of Adonai in the land of Egypt, when we sat by pots of meat, when we ate bread until we were full. But you have brought us into the wilderness, to kill this entire congregation with hunger.”

Isaiah 22:2

You were full of noise, a boisterous city, an exultant town? Your dead were not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.

Jeremiah 16:4

They will die of deadly diseases. They will not be lamented or buried, but will be like dung on the surface of the ground. They will be consumed by the sword and famine, and their carcasses will be food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.

Ezekiel 24:23

Your turbans will remain on your heads and your shoes on your feet—you will not lament or weep. But you will pine away in your iniquities and groan to each other.

Ezekiel 33:10

“You, son of man, say to the house of Israel: ‘You have said, “Surely our transgressions and our sins are upon us and we are pining away in them. So how can we live.”

Ezekiel 4:16

Then he said to me, “Son of man, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight, in anxiety, and they will drink water by measure, in horror.

Ezekiel 7:15

Outside is the sword, inside plague and famine. Whoever is in the field will die by the sword. Whoever is in the city will be devoured by famine and plague.

Leviticus 26:39

Those of you who are left in the land of your enemies will rot away because of their iniquity, and because of the iniquities of their fathers they will rot away with them.

Deuteronomy 28:51

It will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil, until you are destroyed. It will not leave behind for you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until it ruins you.