Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
Context
This verse from Jonah Chapter 4 connects to 10 cross-references. Jonah is greatly displeased at God's compassion on Nineveh and asks to die, revealing his motive for fleeing: he knew God was gracious and might spare the city. God teaches him through a plant that grows and is destroyed, then …
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Therefore now, O Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better <FI>is<Fi> my death than my life.'
So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.
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I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
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