Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. Treasury of Scripture take. Numbers 11:15 And if you deal thus with me, kill me, I pray you, out of hand, if I have found favor in your sight... Numbers 20:3 And the people strived with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would God that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD! 1 Kings 19:4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree... Job 3:20,21 Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul... Job 6:8,9 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!... Jeremiah 20:14-18 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bore me be blessed... Philippians 1:21-25 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain... for. Jonah 4:8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat on the head of Jonah... Job 7:15,16 So that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life... Ecclesiastes 7:1 A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. 1 Corinthians 9:15 But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done to me...
Context Jonah's Anger at the Lord 's Compassion
1But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. 2And he prayed to the LORD, and said, I pray you, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before to Tarshish: for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repent you of the evil. 3Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. 4Then said the LORD, Do you well to be angry? 5So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city. 6And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd. 7But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. 8And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat on the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live. 9And God said to Jonah, Do you well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even to death. 10Then said the LORD, You have had pity on the gourd, for the which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: 11And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more then six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle? Parallel Verses American Standard Version
Therefore now, O Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And now, O Lord, I beseech thee take my life from me: for it is better for me to die than to live.
Darby Bible Translation
And now, Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.
King James Bible
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
Young's Literal Translation
And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better is my death than my life.'
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