Lamentations 4:9

Expanded Bible

⁹ Those who were ·killed [^Lpierced] ·in the war [^Lby the sword] were better off
    than those ·killed [^Lpierced] by ·hunger [famine].
They ·starve in pain and die [drain/waste away],
    ·because there is no food from the field [^Ldeprived of the produce of the field; Jer. 11:22; 14:12–18].