Verse Comparison: Lamentations 4:9

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American Standard Version
They that are slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.

Amplified® Bible
Those who are slain with the sword are more fortunate than those who are the victims of hunger [slain by the famine]; for they [the hungry] pine {and} ebb away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.

Darby English Version
The slain with the sword are happier than the slain with hunger; for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.

King James Version
They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.

Revised Standard Version
Happier were the victims of the sword than the victims of hunger, who pined away, stricken by want of the fruits of the field.

Young's Literal Translation
Better have been the pierced of a sword Than the pierced of famine, For these flow away, pierced through, Without the increase of the field.

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