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9They 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.

Lamentations 4:9

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 1-12)

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 rich and splendid, the perfection of beauty and the joy of the whole earth , has become dim, and is changed, has lost its lustre, lost its value, is not what it was; it has become dross. Alas! what a...

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