Lamentations 4:9
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.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger,.... Not that they are better with respect to their state after death, but with respect to their manner of dying. They…
The elegy in this chapter begins with a lamentation of the very sad and doleful change which the judgments of God had made in Jerusalem. The city that was formerly as gold, as the most fine gold, so…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
The two modes of death experienced in the siege are contrasted.
pine away lit. as mg. flow away.
stricken through See on Jer 37:10, where (mg.) "thrust through" is the same word in the Heb. As the…
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