Cross references

Lamentations 4:9

Those slain by the sword are better off

than those who die of hunger,

who waste away, pierced with pain

because the fields lack produce.

Lamentations 4:9 BSB

Lamentations 4:9 has 4 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 0 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Leviticus 26:39 (3 votes) and Jeremiah 16:4 (3 votes). 34 other verses point back to it. It links with 12 other books, from Genesis 41 to Ezekiel 33.

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Which verses does Lamentations 4:9 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.

  2. “They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried, but will lie like dung on the ground. They will be finished off by sword and famine, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and beasts of the earth.”

  3. Your turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep, but you will waste away because of your sins, and you will groan among yourselves.

  4. Now as for you, son of man, tell the house of Israel that this is what they have said: ‘Our transgressions and our sins are heavy upon us, and we are wasting away because of them! How can we live?’

Which verses point to Lamentations 4:9?

The 10 strongest of 34.