Lamentations 4:9
“Here is considered a comparison. As said: "Happier were the victims of the sword than the victims of hunger, who pined away, stricken by want of the fruits of the field." That is, they were cast down, as soon as they were afflicted. As the Book of Sirach says: "Death is better than a miserable life, and eternal rest t…”
Source: Septuagint
9The slain with the sword were better Than they that were slain with hunger: They have departed, Pierced through from want of the fruits of the field.
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7Her Nazirites were made purer than snow, They were whiter than milk, They were purified as with fire, Their polishing was superior to sapphire stone.
8Their countenance is become blacker than smoke; They are not known in the streets: Their skin has cloven to their bones; They are withered, they are become as a stick.
— Lamentations 4:9 —
10The hands of tenderhearted women Have sodden their own children: They became meat for them In the destruction of the daughter of my people.
11The Lord has accomplished his wrath; He has poured out his fierce anger, And has kindled a fire in Zion, And it has devoured her foundations.