Lamentations 4:9
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Teth. It was better with them that were slain by the sword, than with them that died with hunger: for these pined away being consumed for want of the fruits of the earth.

for

Leviticus 26:39 And if of them also some remain, they shall pine away in their iniquities, in the land of their enemies: and they shall be afflicted for the sins of their fathers, and their own.

Ezekiel 24:23 You shall have crowns on your heads, and shoes on your feet: you shall not lament nor weep, but you shall pine away for your iniquities, and every one shall sigh with his brother.

Ezekiel 33:10 Thou therefore, O son of man, say to the house of Israel: Thus you have spoken, saying: Our iniquities, and our sins are upon us, and we pine away in them: how then can we live?

pine away.

Context
The Distress of Zion
8Heth. Their face is now made blacker than coals, and they are not known in the streets: their skin hath stuck to their bones, it is withered, and is become like wood. 9Teth. It was better with them that were slain by the sword, than with them that died with hunger: for these pined away being consumed for want of the fruits of the earth.10Jod. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.…
Cross References
Exodus 16:3
And the children of Israel said to them: Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat over the fleshpots, and ate bread to the full: Why have you brought us into this desert, that you might destroy all the multitude with famine?

Leviticus 26:39
And if of them also some remain, they shall pine away in their iniquities, in the land of their enemies: and they shall be afflicted for the sins of their fathers, and their own.

2 Kings 25:3
The ninth day of the month: and a famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

Jeremiah 16:4
They shall die by the death of grievous illnesses: they shall not be lamented, and they shall not be buried, they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed with the sword, and with famine: and their carcasses shall be meat for the fowls of the air, and for the beasts of the earth.

Ezekiel 24:23
You shall have crowns on your heads, and shoes on your feet: you shall not lament nor weep, but you shall pine away for your iniquities, and every one shall sigh with his brother.

Lexicon
Those slain
חַלְלֵי־ (ḥal·lê-)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 2491: Pierced, polluted

by the sword
חֶ֔רֶב (ḥe·reḇ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2719: Drought, a cutting instrument, as a, knife, sword

are
הָיוּ֙ (hā·yū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

better off
טוֹבִ֤ים (ṭō·w·ḇîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good

than those who die
מֵֽחַלְלֵ֖י (mê·ḥal·lê)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 2491: Pierced, polluted

of hunger,
רָעָ֑ב (rā·‘āḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7458: Famine, hunger

who
שֶׁ֣הֵ֤ם (še·hêm)
Pronoun - relative | Pronoun - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1992: They

waste away,
יָז֙וּבוּ֙ (yā·zū·ḇū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2100: To flow freely, to have a, flux, to waste away, to overflow

pierced with pain
מְדֻקָּרִ֔ים (mə·ḏuq·qā·rîm)
Verb - Pual - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1856: To stab, to starve, to revile

because the fields
שָׂדָֽי׃ (śā·ḏāy)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7704: Field, land

lack produce.
מִתְּנוּבֹ֖ת (mit·tə·nū·ḇōṯ)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 8570: Fruit, produce


Additional Translations
Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.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.

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.

TETH. The slain with the sword were better than they that were slain with hunger: they have departed, pierced through from want of the fruits of the field.

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.

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.

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.

Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.

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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