Lamentations 4:9KJV

Protestant Bible · KJV · Verse 9 of 22

"slain with the sword are better than slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for the fruits of the field."
Lamentations 4:9

In context

7Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing of sapphire:

8Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

9slain with the sword are better than slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for the fruits of the field.

10The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

11The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.

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