Verse Comparison: Lamentations 4:9
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.
Contemporary English Version
Being killed with a sword is better than slowly starving to death.
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.
Good News Bible
Those who died in the war were better off than those who died later, who starved slowly to death, with no food to keep them alive.
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.
New American Standard Bible
Better are those slain with the sword Than those slain with hunger; For they pine away, being stricken For lack of the fruits of the field.
New International Version
Those killed by the sword are better off
than those who die of famine;
racked with hunger, they waste away
for lack of food from the field.
New King James Version
Those slain by the sword are better off
Than those who die of hunger;
For these pine away,
Stricken for lack of the fruits of the field.
N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
Better we regard those slain with the sword Than those slain with hunger; For they pine away, having become stricken For lack 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.
