 They 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.  The Quarterly Review - Page 254edited by - 1843Full view - About this book
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 476 pages
...skeletons. Л beautiful 9 but dreadful coníra/<l. [They 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 ; it fa better to die by a sudden stroke than such a lingering death. 10 The hands of the pitiful women... | |
 | John Owen - 1813 - 644 pages
...of the word. No judgment is like famine. " They that are 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,"" Lam. iv. 9. And tio famine like that of the word, which God threateneth as the sorest of his judgments,... | |
 | John Owen, Edward Williams - 1812 - 672 pages
...the No judgment is like famine. "They that are slain with the sword, are better than they that are slain with hunger; for these pine away stricken through for want of the fruit of the field," Lam. iv, 9. And no famine like that of the word, which God threateneth as the... | |
 | John Owen, Edward Williams - 1812 - 672 pages
...word.v No judgment is like famine. "They that are slaiij with the sword, are better than they that are slain with hunger; for these pine away stricken through for want of the fruit of the field," Lam. iv, 9. And no famine like that of the word, which God threateneth as the... | |
 | 1815 - 586 pages
...it is withered, it is become like a stick. 9 They 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. 10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children : they were their meat in the destruction... | |
 | 1818 - 960 pages
...it iswithered, it is become like a stick. 9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they ied lor thee, 0 Absalom, my son, my son ! CHAP. XIX. AND it was told leant of the fruits of the field. 10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children... | |
 | John Willison - 1821 - 298 pages
...of these who die by this arrow, Lam. iv. 9. " They 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," and therefore their death is most lingering and miserable. Likewise famine useth to bring on the most... | |
 | 1038 pages
...occurs in the Lamentations of Jeremiah : — "They 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." c. iv. 9. In fixing the locality of the retreat of Elijah during the famine, the hrook Cherith, in... | |
 | John Philip - 1828 - 474 pages
...they had been so many dogs *. * " They that be slain of the sword are better than they that die of hunger, for these pine away stricken through for want of the fruits of the field."—Lamentations iv. 9. Their wars are almost all predatory incursions undertaken for the sake... | |
 | Robert Morehead - 1830 - 510 pages
...IMPROVEMENT TO WHICH THEY LEAD.* LAMENTATIONS iv. 9.—They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want, °f the fruits of the field. AMIDST the evils, my brethren, to which nations are subject, those of... | |
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