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Lamentations 4:9

Context
NETBible

ט (Tet) Those who died by the sword 1  are better off than those who die of hunger, 2  those who 3  waste away, 4  struck down 5  from lack of 6  food. 7 

NIV ©

biblegateway Lam 4:9

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.

NASB ©

biblegateway Lam 4:9

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.

NLT ©

biblegateway Lam 4:9

Those killed by the sword are far better off than those who die of hunger, wasting away for want of food.

MSG ©

biblegateway Lam 4:9

Better to have been killed in battle than killed by starvation. Better to have died of battle wounds than to slowly starve to death.

BBE ©

SABDAweb Lam 4:9

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.

NRSV ©

bibleoremus Lam 4:9

Happier were those pierced by the sword than those pierced by hunger, whose life drains away, deprived of the produce of the field.

NKJV ©

biblegateway Lam 4:9

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.

[+] More English

KJV
[They that be] slain
<02491>
with the sword
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are better
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than [they that be] slain
<02491>
with hunger
<07458>_:
for these
<01992>
pine away
<02100> (8799)_,
stricken
<01856> (8794)
through for [want of] the fruits
<08570>
of the field
<07704>_.
{pine...: Heb. flow out}
NASB ©

biblegateway Lam 4:9

Better
<02896>
are those slain
<02491>
with the sword
<02719>
Than
<04480>
those slain
<02491>
with hunger
<07458>
; For they pine
<02100>
away
<02100>
, being stricken
<01856>
For lack of the fruits
<08570>
of the field
<07706>
.
LXXM
kaloi
<2570
A-NPM
hsan
<1510
V-IAI-3P
oi
<3588
T-NPM
traumatiai {N-NPM} romfaiav {N-GSF} h
<2228
CONJ
oi
<3588
T-NPM
traumatiai {N-NPM} limou
<3042
N-GSM
eporeuyhsan
<4198
V-API-3P
ekkekenthmenoi {V-RMPNP} apo
<575
PREP
genhmatwn {N-GPN} agrwn
<68
N-GPM
NET [draft] ITL
ט(Tet) Those who died
<02491>
by the sword
<02719>
are better off
<02896>
than those who die
<02491>
of hunger
<07458>
, those
<01992>
who waste away
<02100>
, struck down
<01856>
from lack of food
<07704>
.
HEBREW
o
ydv
<07704>
tbwntm
<08570>
Myrqdm
<01856>
wbwzy
<02100>
Mhs
<01992>
ber
<07458>
yllxm
<02491>
brx
<02719>
yllx
<02491>
wyh
<01961>
Mybwj (4:9)
<02896>

NETBible

ט (Tet) Those who died by the sword 1  are better off than those who die of hunger, 2  those who 3  waste away, 4  struck down 5  from lack of 6  food. 7 

NET Notes

tn Heb “those pierced of the sword.” The genitive-construct denotes instrumentality: “those pierced by the sword” (חַלְלֵי־חֶרֶב, khalle-kherev). The noun חָלָל (khalal) refers to a “fatal wound” and is used substantivally to refer to “the slain” (Num 19:18; 31:8, 19; 1 Sam 17:52; 2 Sam 23:8, 18; 1 Chr 11:11, 20; Isa 22:2; 66:16; Jer 14:18; 25:33; 51:49; Lam 4:9; Ezek 6:7; 30:11; 31:17, 18; 32:20; Zeph 2:12).

tn Heb “those slain of hunger.” The genitive-construct denotes instrumentality: “those slain by hunger,” that is, those who are dying of hunger.

tn Heb “who…” The antecedent of the relative pronoun שֶׁהֵם (shehem, “who”) are those dying of hunger in the previous line: מֵחַלְלֵי רָעָב (mekhalle raav, “those slain of hunger”).

tn Heb “they flow away.” The verb זוּב (zuv, “to flow, gush”) is used figuratively here, meaning “to pine away” or “to waste away” from hunger. See also the next note.

tn Heb “pierced through and through.” The term מְדֻקָּרִים (mÿduqqarim), Pual participle masculine plural from דָּקַר (daqar, “to pierce”), is used figuratively. The verb דָּקַר (daqar, “to pierce”) usually refers to a fatal wound inflicted by a sword or spear (Num 25:8; Judg 9:54; 1 Sam 31:4; 1 Chr 10:4; Isa 13:15; Jer 37:10; 51:4; Zech 12:10; 13:3). Here, it describes people dying from hunger. This is an example of hypocatastasis: an implied comparison between warriors being fatally pierced by sword and spear and the piercing pangs of hunger and starvation. Alternatively “those who hemorrhage (זוּב [zuv, “flow, gush”]) [are better off] than those pierced by lack of food” in parallel to the structure of the first line.

tn The preposition מִן (min, “from”) denotes deprivation: “from lack of” something (BDB 580 s.v. 2.f; HALOT 598 s.v. 6).

tn Heb “produce of the field.”




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