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Lamentations 4:7-9
The Message
Lamentations 4:7-9
The Message
7 The splendid and sacred nobles
once glowed with health.
Their bodies were robust and ruddy,
their beards like carved stone.
8 But now they are smeared with soot,
unrecognizable in the street,
Their bones sticking out,
their skin dried out like old leather.
9 Better to have been killed in battle
than killed by starvation.
Better to have died of battle wounds
than to slowly starve to death.
The Message (MSG)
Copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson
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