Lamentations 4:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Those who have been put to the sword are better off than those whose death is caused by need of food; for these come to death slowly, burned up like the fruit of the field.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 26:39 : 39 And those of you who are still living will be wasting away in their sins in the land of your haters; in the sins of their fathers they will be wasting away.
  • Ezek 24:23 : 23 And your head-dresses will be on your heads and your shoes on your feet: there will be no sorrow or weeping; but you will be wasting away in the punishment of your evil-doing, and you will be looking at one another in wonder.
  • Ezek 33:10 : 10 And you, son of man, say to the children of Israel, You say, Our wrongdoing and our sins are on us and we are wasting away in them; how then may we have life?
  • Jer 16:4 : 4 Death from evil diseases will overtake them; there will be no weeping for them and their bodies will not be put to rest; they will be like waste on the face of the earth: the sword and need of food will put an end to them; their dead bodies will be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.

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  • Lam 4:10
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    10 The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Lam 5:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9 We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.

    10 Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.

  • Ezek 7:15
    75%

    15 Outside is the sword, and inside disease and need of food: he who is in the open country will be put to the sword; he who is in the town will come to his end through need of food and disease.

  • Ezek 4:17
    75%

    17 So that they may be in need of bread and water and be wondering at one another, wasting away in their sin.

  • Jer 18:21
    74%

    21 For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

  • Jer 16:4
    74%

    4 Death from evil diseases will overtake them; there will be no weeping for them and their bodies will not be put to rest; they will be like waste on the face of the earth: the sword and need of food will put an end to them; their dead bodies will be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.

  • Lam 4:8
    74%

    8 Their face is blacker than night; in the streets no one has knowledge of them: their skin is hanging on their bones, they are dry, they have become like wood.

  • Job 30:3
    74%

    3 They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.

  • 1 Sam 2:5
    73%

    5 Those who were full are offering themselves as servants for bread; those who were in need are at rest; truly, she who had no children has become the mother of seven; and she who had a family is wasted with sorrow.

  • Lam 4:5
    73%

    5 Those who were used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets: those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust.

  • Jer 5:17
    72%

    17 They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.

  • Heb 11:37
    72%

    37 They were stoned, they were cut up with knives, they were tested, they were put to death with the sword, they went about in sheepskins and in goatskins; being poor and in pain and cruelly attacked,

  • Isa 14:30
    72%

    30 And the poorest of the land will have food, and those in need will be given a safe resting-place: but your seed will come to an end for need of food, and the rest of you will be put to the sword.

  • Isa 9:20
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    20 On the right a man was cutting off bits and was still in need; on the left a man took a meal but had not enough; no man had pity on his brother; every man was making a meal of the flesh of his neighbour.

  • Mic 6:14
    71%

    14 You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.

  • Jer 14:18
    71%

    18 If I go out into the open country, there are those put to death by the sword! and if I go into the town, there are those who are diseased from need of food! for the prophet and the priest go about in the land and have no knowledge.

  • Isa 51:19
    71%

    19 These two things have come on you; who will be weeping for you? wasting and destruction; death from need of food, and from the sword; how may you be comforted?

  • Lam 2:20-21
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    71%

    20 Look! O Lord, see to whom you have done this! Are the women to take as their food the fruit of their bodies, the children who are folded in their arms? are the priest and the prophet to be put to death in the holy place of the Lord?

    21 The young men and the old are stretched on the earth in the streets; my virgins and my young men have been put to the sword: you have sent death on them in the day of your wrath, causing death without pity.

  • Zech 11:9
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    9 And I said, I will not take care of you: If death comes to any, let death be its fate; if any is cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest take one another's flesh for food.

  • Jer 51:4
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    4 And the dead will be stretched out in the land of the Chaldaeans, and the wounded in her streets.

  • Jer 19:9
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    9 I will make them take the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters for food, they will be making a meal of one another, because of their bitter need and the cruel grip of their haters and those who have made designs against their life.

  • Jer 15:9
    71%

    9 The mother of seven is without strength; her spirit is gone from her, her sun has gone down while it is still day: she has been shamed and overcome: and the rest of them I will give up to the sword before their haters, says the Lord.

  • Amos 9:10
    71%

    10 All those sinners among my people will be put to the sword who say, Evil will not overtake us or come face to face with us.

  • Job 33:20-21
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    71%

    20 He has no desire for food, and his soul is turned away from delicate meat;

    21 His flesh is so wasted away, that it may not be seen, and his bones. ...

  • Lam 2:12
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    12 They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? when they are falling like the wounded in the open squares of the town, when their life is drained out on their mother's breast.

  • Deut 32:25
    71%

    25 Outside they will be cut off by the sword, and in the inner rooms by fear; death will take the young man and the virgin, the baby at the breast and the grey-haired man.

  • Isa 21:15
    71%

    15 For they are in flight from the sharp sword, and the bent bow, and from the trouble of war.

  • Job 5:20
    71%

    20 When there is need of food he will keep you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

  • Joel 1:17
    71%

    17 The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

  • Mic 3:3
    70%

    3 Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.

  • Job 24:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10 Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.

    11 Between the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes.

  • Jer 15:2
    70%

    2 And it will be, when they say to you, Where are we to go? then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are to be in need of food, to need of food; and such as are to be taken away prisoners, to be taken away.

  • Jer 14:16
    70%

    16 And the people to whom they are prophets will be pushed out dead into the streets of Jerusalem, because there is no food, and because of the sword; and they will have no one to put their bodies into the earth, them or their wives or their sons or their daughters: for I will let loose their evil-doing on them.

  • Job 21:25
    70%

    25 And another comes to his end with a bitter soul, without ever tasting good.

  • Ps 107:5
    70%

    5 Their souls became feeble for need of food and drink.

  • Lam 1:11
    70%

    11 Breathing out grief all her people are looking for bread; they have given their desired things for food to give them life: see, O Lord, and take note; for she has become a thing of shame.

  • Ezek 6:12
    70%

    12 He who is far away will come to his death by disease; he who is near will be put to the sword; he who is shut up will come to his death through need of food; and I will give full effect to my passion against them.

  • Isa 14:19
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    19 But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot.

  • Amos 9:4
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    4 And though they are taken away as prisoners by their attackers, even there will I give orders to the sword to put them to death: my eyes will be fixed on them for evil and not for good.

  • Jer 11:22
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    22 So the Lord of armies has said, See, I will send punishment on them: the young men will be put to the sword; their sons and their daughters will come to death through need of food:

  • Job 5:5
    70%

    5 Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

  • Isa 13:15
    70%

    15 Everyone who is overtaken will have a spear put through him, and everyone who goes in flight will be put to the sword.

  • Jer 42:17
    70%

    17 Such will be the fate of all the men whose minds are fixed on going into Egypt and stopping there; they will come to their end by the sword, by being short of food, and by disease: not one of them will keep his life or get away from the evil which I will send on them.

  • Isa 8:21
    69%

    21 And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be turned to heaven on high;

  • Isa 3:25
    69%

    25 Your men will be put to the sword, and your men of war will come to destruction in the fight.

  • Jer 34:20
    69%

    20 Even these I will give up into the hands of their haters and into the hands of those who have designs against their lives: and their dead bodies will become food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.