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Poetic visual interpretation: An empty basket beside a barren field edge, famine acknowledged, no death scene or sword wound.
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Lamentations 4:9

Hunger Worse Than the Sword

Splendor Lost and Guilt Exposed · Lamentations 4

Story guide: An empty basket beside a barren field edge, famine acknowledged. The poem weighs death by hunger against death by sword.

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9Better were those slain by the sword than those slain by hunger, who waste away, pierced through for lack of the produce of the field.

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