Lamentations 4:9 meaning and explanation
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.
Lamentations 4:9, Berean Standard Bible
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The poet, an eyewitness of Jerusalem's fall in 586 BC, continues his lament over the siege. Famine was one of the covenant curses for disobedience (Deuteronomy 28:48), and here it proves crueler than the sword.
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