Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Lamentations 4:9:

• Kupsabiny: “A person who is killed by a sword is better off
  than the one whom famine has killed,
  they are suffering slowly until they are finished
  because food is missing.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Those who died by the sword were more
  fortunate than those who died of famine.
  Because fields were not producing
  they waisted away due to hunger.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Those who have died in battle were far-better-off than those who have died of hunger. They gradually died of hunger because there was no food at-all.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “It is better to die in a battle
  than to die of hunger.
  There was no food to harvest in the fields,
  so the people slowly starved until they died.” (Source: Translation for Translators)