9 Those who are slain with the sword are better than those who are slain with hunger, for these are a flowing away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.
Lamentations 4:9 Cross References - MLV
Leviticus 26:39
39 And those who are left of you* will pine away in their iniquity in your* enemies' lands and also in the iniquities of their fathers they will pine away with them.
Jeremiah 16:4
4 They will die grievous deaths. They will not be lamented, nor will they be buried; they will be as manure upon the face of the ground. And they will be consumed by the sword and by famine. And their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth.
Ezekiel 24:23
23 And your* coverings will be upon your* heads and your* shoes upon your* feet. You* will not mourn nor weep, but you* will pine away in your* iniquities and moan one toward another.
Ezekiel 33:10
10 And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, You* speak thus, saying, Our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we pine away in them. How then can we live?