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Lamentations 4:9

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9 Those who have been killed with swords are better off than those who have to die of hunger. Those who are hungry waste away to nothing. They don't have any food from the fields.
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.
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